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2025-06-1640 min2025-06-1338 min2025-05-3035 min2025-05-2342 min2025-05-1638 min2025-05-0943 min2025-05-0237 min2025-04-2537 min2025-04-1844 min2025-04-1141 min2025-04-0435 min2025-03-2838 min2025-03-2140 min2025-03-1436 minThe Witness Within#470 Incorporate God's Qualities Into Your Being - Aspects of Sufism by Musa Muhaiyaddeen
2025-03-0742 min2025-02-2841 min2025-02-2239 min2025-02-1741 min2025-02-1040 min2025-02-0330 minThe Witness Within#464 To Get Closer To Truth Become Serene And Content - Aspects of Sufism by Musa Muhaiyaddeen
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2024-10-0741 min2024-09-3037 min2024-09-2337 min2024-09-1644 minThe Witness Within#444 Go With The Flow Of The Nature of Truth - Aspects of Sufism by Musa Muhaiyaddeen
2024-09-0938 min2024-09-0241 min2024-08-2640 min2024-08-1934 minThe Witness Within#440 Stop Looking to the World for Answers - Aspects of Sufism by Musa Muhaiyaddeen
2024-08-1241 min2024-08-0537 min2024-07-2943 min2024-07-2242 min2024-07-1539 min2024-07-0839 min2024-07-0142 min2024-06-2439 minThe Witness Within#432 Fast From All Qualities That Do Not Belong To God - Aspects of Sufism by Musa Muhaiyaddeen
2024-06-1746 min2024-06-1039 min2024-06-0342 min2024-05-2730 min2024-05-2040 min2024-05-1338 min2024-05-0635 minThe Witness Within#425 Be Courageous In The Face Of Difficulties - Aspects of Sufism by Musa Muhaiyaddeen
2024-04-2927 min2024-04-2227 minThe Witness Within#423 The Quran Tells Us That Allah Is One - Aspects of Sufism by Musa Muhaiyaddeen
2024-04-1525 minThe Witness Within#422 Take Into Consideration The Next Phase In Our Existence - Aspects of Sufism by Musa Muhaiyaddeen
2024-04-0832 minThe Witness Within#421 The Worldly Journey And The Spiritual Journey - Aspects of Sufism by Musa Muhaiyaddeen
2024-04-0123 minThe Witness Within#420 We Need To Give Up The Egocentric Drive To Become More Important - Musa Muhaiyaddeen
2024-03-2527 min2024-03-1827 minThe Witness Within#418 Filter Everything Through Wisdom Before Reacting - Aspects of Sufism by Musa Muhaiyaddeen
2024-03-1129 minThe Witness Within#417 Our Qualities of Egoism and Arrogance Are a Barrier to God's Realm - Musa Muhaiyaddeen
2024-03-0431 minThe Witness Within#416 True Contentment, Serenity and Peace Come Only From One Place-Aspects of Sufism by Musa Muhaiyaddeen
2024-02-2632 min2024-02-1226 min2023-12-1430 min2023-11-2925 min2023-09-1127 min2023-09-0822 min2023-09-0622 min2023-09-0426 minThe Witness Within#380 It Does Not Pay To Stain Your Integrity Aspects of Sufism by Musa Muhaiyaddeen
2023-09-0236 minThe Witness Within# 377 Create a Sacred Space To Talk To Your Lord - Aspects of Sufism by Musa Muhaiyaddeen
2023-08-1629 min2023-08-0128 minThe Witness Within#374 Accumulating More Does Not Satisfy Us - Aspects of Sufism by Musa Muhaiyaddeen
2023-07-2831 min2023-07-2528 min2023-07-2133 minThe Witness Within#371 A Life Without Love and Mercy is Barren - Aspects of Sufism by Musa Muhaiyaddeen
2023-07-1832 minThe Witness Within#370 Knowledge of Truth Needs to Manifest Within Us - Aspects of Sufism by Musa Muhaiyaddeen
2023-07-1632 min2023-07-1428 minThe Witness Within#368 There is no Future in the Material Self - Aspects of Sufism by Musa Muhaiyaddeen
2023-07-1130 minThe Witness Within#367 Become a Fountain of Manifestation of God's Qualities - Aspects of Sufism by Musa Muhaiyaddeen
2023-07-0922 minThe Witness Within#366 Remove Yourself From Discordance and Stay In A Peaceful State-Aspects of Sufism by Musa Muhaiyaddeen
2023-07-0829 minThe Witness Within#365 MAN S JUSTICE WORLDLY JUSTICE AND GOD S JUSTICE - Aspects of Sufism by Musa Muhaiyaddeen
2023-07-0632 minThe Witness Within#44 Love - Musa MuhaiyaddeenImagine if you had a job, and your boss sent you somewhere to accomplish a specific task. And when you got there, you got involved in about ninteen other things and came back and then told the boss, “Well, I did this…this…and this, but I didn’t do what you had asked me to do. If the boss wanted that one thing done and that was the most important thing to him, what’s the use of the other things that you’d have accomplished? What was the reason that you did those other things as opposed to what you...
2021-03-0129 minThe Witness Within#43 Know God Through His Creation - Musa MuhaiyaddeenIn this world we make a lot of assumptions. A lot of these assumptions are based on what we are taught and the way our culture views certain things. Essentially what the culture does is it prioritizes things. It considers certain things good and certain things bad, certain things high and certain things low, certain things successful and certain things unsuccessful. And we as individuals, because we live in the culture, are raised with these assumptions, and we buy into them. Now, the interesting thing about the word “culture” is, if you turn it around, it becomes “ure cult.” So, all...
2021-02-2724 minThe Witness Within#42 Ice Cubes - Musa MuhaiyaddeenIt’s very difficult to conceptualize what we can’t see. It’s very difficult to imagine what we’ve never encountered. Even though people explain things to us and tell us that this is the way things are, it’s difficult for us to incorporate ideas into our being as if they were real until we somehow are able to fully grasp them and integrate their meaning into ourselves. For instance, when people say, “We’re all the same,” and when we look around, and we don’t look the same…We can’t walk through each other because we bump into e...
2021-02-2519 minThe Witness Within#41 Form - Musa MuhaiyaddeenIn religion there is often a difficulty between the form and the spirit. And there are those who are very much in the spirit. And there are those who are very much in the form. And the ones who believe very very strongly in the form see those in the spirit as apostates or heretics. They see them as a danger to their well thought out world that they’ve put together and that they’ve described and that they’ve given rules and regulations to.I was recently in Turkey giving a series of talks. And in tal...
2021-02-2224 minThe Witness Within#40 Effort - Musa Muhaiyaddeen“Everybody talking ’bout, nobody going there — heaven.” Those are the words that start an old spiritual. There are more words to it, but that is the refrain. It’s an interesting refrain because talking about it isn’t the same as doing something about it. There are lots of implications from the refrain, but I’m going to choose to use that implication. “Everybody talking ’bout, nobody going there — heaven.” Essentially, if you’re going to take a trip, you have to make some sort of preparation. And if you’re going to heaven or if you intend to go to heaven, if you inten...
2021-02-2022 minThe Witness Within#39 Perspective - Musa MuhaiyaddeenAmong young people, videos games is something that a lot of them do. And there are different types of video games. But one of the consistent genres is the war game where you are the shooter, and your perspective in this game is essentially looking through the barrel of a gun or rather over the sight of a gun. And you keep going through rooms with this perspective. So, you’re constantly seeing everything as if you’re looking through a scope, and it’s a wide scope so you see quite a bit. But that’s you’re perspectiv...
2021-02-1732 minThe Witness Within#38 Psychology - Musa MuhaiyaddeenFreud is generally considered the father of psychology. What is psychology? Well, when Freud came along, all of a sudden people in the medical circles began to think about the psychological makeup of their patients and what they could do to help people who had no apparent physical ailments but had really difficult psychological ailments. They locked a lot of these people up. Of course, in the beginning a lot of this dealt with people on the severe end of these psychological problems. But as time progressed and as psychology progressed, they found that they could work with people...
2021-02-1427 minThe Witness Within#37 From Lizard-man to God-man - Musa MuhaiyaddeenThere are still Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museums in the world, and a few days ago I passed one. There was a loudspeaker in front of it trying to draw you in. It was talking about the lizard-man, who had had his entire body tatooed as a lizard, and he only had a little bit left to go. And he would be a lizard entirely. I thought this was interesting. If you tatoo yourself in a certain way, you become the picture of what you want to be, and then somehow you become that or at least th...
2021-02-1227 minThe Witness Within#36 What to do with Knots - Musa MuhaiyaddeenSomeone was sitting with bawa, and they asked him, “Will there ever come the time when I will be able to see through my eyes what I see when I’m looking at your eyes?” And Bawa responded, “When the day comes when the “I” in you becomes a “we,” you’ll be able to do that.”Now the fact that Bawa could pun in English like that is quite extraordinary. But more extraordinary is that understanding. The essence of that question is “Will I be able to see the way you see? Will I see through my eyes what I see whe...
2021-02-1023 minThe Witness Within#35 Empty and Empathy - Musa MuhaiyaddeenDifferent religions and different sects and different teachers approach things in different ways. Some teachers teach a religion of exclusivity. They say that in order for you to be among those who are with God, you must do things not only in a certain way, but you must belong to this sect. You must belong to this group. You must belong to this denomination. And you must believe exactly in the way of the denomination. Other teachers teach that we have found a way, we have been given a way and you can come join our way. And if...
2021-02-0836 minThe Witness Within#34 Duality and Duplicity - Musa MuhaiyaddeenIn the physical world, consequences are readily apparent. If you throw a rock at a glass, there’s a crash and the glass will shatter. Like that, physical consequences are not difficult to see. They are not only apparent in the sense of the reality of the physical world, they are apparent to all of your senses. Sounds cause disturbances. Various physical manifestations cause other things to happen. In the spiritual realm, there are also consequences, but the consequences are not as readily apparent. But there are consequences. And we as individuals, in order to fulfill our knowledge, have to...
2021-02-0535 minThe Witness Within#33 Dive into the Pool of God’s Grace - Musa MuhaiyaddeenYou’ve all watched sports, and some have participated in sports. Sports is an industry. And in the industry, you have lots of different people involved in it doing lots of different things. It starts out with the people who go to work to build the stadium. Then, you have the people who own the teams. Then, you have the people who buy the tickets to watch. Then, you have the people who broadcast the games on the television or on the radio, you have the broadcasters who actually sit and talk about it. Then, you have the writers wh...
2021-02-0332 minThe Witness Within#32 Kingdom of the Heart - Musa MuhaiyaddeenWhen people ask you, “Where do you live,” the response is usually something like “America” or “Turkey” or “Philadelphia” or “Istanbul” or “Canada” or “Toronto.” In other words, it’s a place. We all identify ourselves with living in a place. Some people might say, “I live on the planet Earth,” which would cover most of the countries. But still, people identify themselves with a specific spot somewhere. And as you twirl the map and if you travel around the world, there are lots of different spots where people live. I’ve been to lots of them. And these spots come with different languages...
2021-01-3128 minThe Witness Within#31 Mercy and Mercenary - Musa MuhaiyaddeenWhen humans are born, they are incredibly vulnerable and they have to be taken care of for a long time before they can fend for themselves. A baby is really without the capability of making it in this world without somebody nurturing it and raising it and teaching it. Now slowly that baby, over the course of time, goes from vulnerability to being able to take care of itself. And there is a change in that being. It learns that not everybody is its mother and not everybody is going to be nurturing towards it. So, slowly defense mechanisms...
2021-01-2928 minThe Witness Within#30 Manifestation - Musa MuhaiyaddeenIn ancient cultures, especially in Africa and South America, we describe certain parts of those cultures as taboos. In other words, things these people won’t go near, things these people won’t do, things these tribal ancient cultures are afraid of. They have had ingrained in them since they were very very young, the fact that in addition to what they see, there are other things going on that they need to have respect for and/or fear for. So when these people become adults, you cannot speak to them as a rational Westerner and try to convince them...
2021-01-2637 minThe Witness Within#29 Stagecraft - Musa MuhaiyaddeenShakespeare told us that the world is a stage, and we are all players. Now, the concept of being an actor in this world is an interesting one. But if you’re an actor in this world, there are times when you are also an audience in this world. We participate as actors, and we participate as audiences. We should ask ourselves, in our act, who are we playing to? And as an audience, who are we listening to? These two questions and the answers to these two questions can tell us a lot about ourselves. They can tell us...
2021-01-2225 minThe Witness Within#28 The Framework of Illusion - Musa MuhaiyaddeenIt’s been said that this world is a farm for the next world. In other words the seeds are planted here, but you don’t see what grows until the next world. Now, in order to understand that and in order to understand the consequences of that, you have to be able to see what you can’t see with these physical eyes. You have to be able to comprehend things that are only available to you through faith. And if you don’t have faith, you can’t breach that gap of not seeing. You can’t breach the g...
2021-01-1837 minThe Witness Within#27 Adeb - Musa MuhaiyaddeenThe way we’ve been taught sufism in this century and in the past century in America is different than the way it was done in the past. In the past groups were hidden. Tariqats were hidden orders where people didn’t live as out in the open in society as they do now. The orders werern’t monastic in the understanding of Christian monastism because marriage was permitted. But there was a certain monastic flavor to the way the orders were established. Now, sufism is taught right in the midst of society, and we live right in the midst...
2021-01-1532 minThe Witness Within#26 True Freedom - Musa MuhaiyaddeenAt the beginning of the French Revolution, people were screaming, “Liberty, equality, fraternity,” and shortly thereafter came the guillotine. In Cambodia they were talking about an entire new generation of people and a society that was equal to all, and then came the killing fields. In Russia Stalin talked about, “From each according to his abilty to each according to his needs,” and then came the Gulags and twenty million dead people. Hitler told the Germans he was going to create the perfect society for them, but in order to do that he needed the ovens and a war that kil...
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