Comments on: Parable: Watermelons and Walnuts http://simerg.com "...The fundamental principles of faith enshrined in the Shahada and the Tawhid therein, which bind the Ummah in an eternal bond of unity...are continuously reaffirmed by the Shia Ismaili Muslims of whom I am the 49th hereditary Imam in direct lineal descent from the first Shia Imam, Hazrat Ali ibn Abi Talib through his marriage to Bibi Fatimat-az-Zahra, our beloved Prophet's daughter...Our historic adherence is to the Jafari Madhhab and other Madhahib of close affinity, and it continues, under the leadership of the hereditary Ismaili Imam of the time." - His Highness the Aga Khan, Message to The International Islamic Conference, Amman, Jordan, 4th – 6th July, 2005. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Shellina http://simerg.com/parables/parables-watermelons-and-walnuts/#comment-13159 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:01:13 +0000 http://simerg.com/?page_id=1464#comment-13159 Beautiful beautiful website…. keep the good work… this is the BEST way of communication, learning and sharing knowledge…. Mowla Bless all involved…. thanks a bunch and lots of dua to you all for such wonderful works, writing and information.

]]> By: Zarina Bhatia http://simerg.com/parables/parables-watermelons-and-walnuts/#comment-1485 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:20:19 +0000 http://simerg.com/?page_id=1464#comment-1485 Just as my comment on Hodja I made earlier. I remember a parable I heard about a lost Donkey of a Turkish villager, let us call him Yusuf. He ran ecstatically one morning saying ‘Listen, my friends, I lost my Donkey, thank Allah’. People gathered round him, ‘You foolish man, what are you so jubilant about? You lost your Donkey you never could do without, and instead of lamenting you are screaming and screeching with delight! You never were seen without him as if you were married to your Donkey.’ Yusuf replied, ‘My friends, you do not understand, I lost him sometime at night and just discovered it now, suppose I was riding on my Donkey when he was gone where would I be then?’

Sufism is a tool for an intellectual search and is based on an esoteric interpretation of Islam, not just based on conventional or external practice. This great religion of Islam today is practised by a quarter of the world population. It is a faith based on Reason.

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