Reflection by Umm e Maham  Our way of seeing life determines our experience with life. The perception that we have of the world around us could either be contending, rooted in the ideology of “survival of the fittest”, or we could feel fullness within ourselves, rooted in “gratitude”. The first condition will create feelings...

The following tribute was given by Shaykh Ebrahim Schuitema at the zawia on the 9th of February, 2019. The audio is available at the bottom of the post. Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim The obviously appropriate thing to talk about this evening is Shaykha Shahbano’s passing. For all of us in our extended circle and beyond, this...

  Extract from a discourse delivered by Shaykh Ebrahim on 30/06/18 – audio available at the bottom of post What is true for your life, is that you will have gain. Over the period of your life you’ll gain more relationships, you’ll gain more wealth, you’ll gain more knowledge. We view our lives through that...

  Shaykh Ebrahim discourse delivered 16/6/18 Audio available at the bottom of the page There are so many ways that one can describe this journey of becoming ourselves; of becoming fully human. One way that occurs to me that it is useful to explore is that becoming ourselves is from one point of view, finding...

  Shaykh Ebrahim discourse delivered 29/9/18 Audio available at the bottom of the page Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim Much of our life is really concerned with the pursuit of aspiration, of going after what we want to get out of life. This goal-directed shaping of our beings is the fundamental human condition. It’s what we get...

  Download audio Shaykh Ebrahim Discourse delivered 23/01/16. Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim There’s a very useful saying from NLP, which says the map is not the territory. It stands to reason that if we had a large map of Pakistan on the carpet and there was a point on that map that said ‘Lahore’, and one...

  Shaykh Ebrahim Discourse delivered 7/7/18. Audio is available at the bottom of the page. It occurs to me tonight to explore an issue, on which I very rarely speak about: Love. In the past when I’ve spoken about this, I’ve made the point that there are two ways of seeing the word (love). Fundamentally,...

  Shaykh Ebrahim Discourse delivered 19/8/17. Audio is available at the bottom of the page. Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala promises us that He is His slave’s opinion of Him. That very simple phrase carries with it an almost terrifying responsibility and accountability. We know that wherever you turn in the Face of Allah. And whatever...

Discourse delivered by Shaykh Ebrahim, 15/9/18.  Audio available at the bottom of the page. Tonight was indeed a very special night. Tonight we did the Dhikr. You did it with commitment, you did not hold back, you did it in the spirit of emptying yourself of yourself. That’s how one does this dhikr – you...

By way of metaphor, one can describe the centre of the human experience as the being in the chest. And one can distinguish between fundamentally two different modalities, two modalities that you can experience the subject as, the subject being the self or the one that's experiencing. In Tasawwuf we refer to one modality as...