Toronto based poet and novelist Sharon Marcus has been a student of the mystical teachings of M.R. Bawa Muhaiyadeen since 1975 when that great Sufi master first visited Toronto.
Sufism has been the declared or undeclared subject in all her books, whether fiction, nonfiction or poetry. The six published works, available online and in bookstores, are:
My Years with the Qutb: A Walk in Paradise; Five Times of Prayer, a poem; Sufi, a commentary; Adam's Story, a novel; A Traveller's Notebook, poems; and The Sufi Experience, anecdotal commentary.
For excerpts from each of these books and how to order, please see the website: www.sufipress.com.
The Sufi Press publishes poetry, fiction and non-fiction, each book in some way reflecting the informing experience of M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen’s mystical teachings. My Years with the Qutb, A Walk in Paradise; Five Times of Prayer, a poem; Sufi, a commentary; Adam's Story, a novel; and The Sufi Experience.
Faith and wisdom are profoundly intertwined; faith provides the solid root for wisdom’s growth and wisdom nourishes the soil in which faith can grow. They are inseparable and necessary to each other, conjoined twins. For any number of problems an aspirant or seeker on the path will encounter along the way, the doubts and confusion which spring up spontaneously in a lack of clarity, the remedy is often to be discovered in deeper faith, the trust that God who knows the beginning and the middle also knows the end of the story, the remedy is deeper faith and the absolute gratitude for what has already been given and for the perfection of the outcome, no matter how it turns out.
~Sharon Marcus, from her book, Sufi