Ab’ul Hasan was a Sufi musician‚ poet and scholar. He was an iconic figure in the cultural history of the Indian subcontinent. He was a mystic and a spiritual disciple of Nizamuddin Auliya of Delhi. Amīr Khusrow has been reputed to have invented musical instruments Sitar and Tabla. He wrote poetry primarily in Persian‚ but also in Hindavi. He is regarded as the "father of Qawwali" (a devotional music form of the Sufis in the Indian subcontinent).. Khusrow was an expert in many styles of Persian
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Religious Experience Religious experience is seen as a non-empirical occurrence which means it does not depend or can be verified through observation or examination. Majority of people believe it’s supernatural. It is also seen as an experience to make a person aware. Certain religious people believe who have had the experience has drawn them into a deeper knowledge/ awareness of god. Most importantly it is seen as the experience itself is not a substitute for the divine but a vehicle that is
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A Prayer for My Daughter : William Butler Yeats - Summary and Critical Analysis | A Prayer for My Daughter by William Butler Yeats opens with an image of the new born child sleeping in a cradle. A storm is raging with great fury outside his residence. A great gloom is on Yeats mind and is consumed with anxiety as to how to protect his child from the tide of hard times ahead. The poet keeps walking and praying for the young child and as he does so he is in a state of reverie. He feels a kind
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An inherent tension between stability and change is revealed through recurring images in Yeats’ poetry. To what extent does your interpretation of Yeats’ The Second Coming and at least one other poem align with this view? William Butler Yeats’ poetry possesses strong imagery and themes of stability and change. Two of the poems‚ which especially highlight these elements‚ are The Second Coming and The Wild Swans At Coole. Within both of these poems the recurring imagery conjures creates strong
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PL 203 Monday FINAL I: what is religion? religion is brought up of four components that defines it. the metaphysical‚ ethical‚ institutional‚ and experiential. metaphysic philosophy based on theories of subtle realities that transcend the physical world. it helps to find the existence of life‚ properties‚ space‚ and time. this maybe a higher‚ deeper and more complex reality. God being the higher being‚ the spiritual figure in which individuals fear or have a reason for life. ethics
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Eat‚ Pray‚ Love Elizabeth Gilbert Summary How liberating it would be to just cast off the reins of your current life and go on a year-long trip to three far flung countries of the world? Elizabeth Gilbert does that in Eat Pray Love‚ by embarking on her journey with specific purposes – one country for pleasure of the senses‚ another for spiritual enlightenment and the third to restore balance in her life. The resultant travelogue is a warm and lively read. The book begins with Elizabeth lying
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Mystic in religion Every religion has its own set of rituals and ceremonies‚ the implementation of which sometimes provides feedback with something secretly. We can find a lot of facts when people saw or felt something strange during praying or just being in the saint place. Also some believers keeps in touch with spirits and gods‚ who help to make right decisions and answer some complete questions. One of the most mystical phenomena is bleeding Christians icons. Such activity usually involves
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world beyond their senses. The supernaturalism and optimism to which they persuade the individual may‚ interpreted in one way or another‚ be after all the truest of insights into the meaning of this life (p 428). We cannot reject James’ views on mysticism because any experience an individual has will always be judged based on society’s standards. However‚ society’s labels and categories are based on individual preferences. There is always a continuity between an individual’s mystical experience and
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“Lolek”‚ assigned as students’ chaplain in St. Florian’s Parish in Krakow (March 17‚ 1949) composed a poem-cycle entitled “Song of the Brightness of Water” Piesn o blasku wody (May 7‚ 1950) using the pen name Andrzej Jawien. The late Pope’s mysticism can be perceived in a part of this poem-cycle entitled “Later Recollection of the Meeting” (Pozniejsze rozpamietywanie spotkania). When this poem was written‚ his native Poland was in the transition stage from Nazi occupation into a communist
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Before taking this class‚ Mysticism as a religious practice was a mystery to me. Actually‚ I have never heard of this topic. Growing up Protestent‚ we are not affiliated with the Roman Catholic order or any of the Saints in the Catholic Church. Therefore‚ through this course I grew to understand and learn about the idea of mysticism and its importance in the Roman Catholic Church. Dating back hundred of years‚ mysticism is the idea of having a direct experience of ultimate reality‚ which in the end
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