SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp cassette player, and with a hefty clack the machine whirrs to life. As the Kashmiri tailor stitches, the machine ...

For these mystics, humanity transcended formal rituals and rites. From Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai to Sachal Sarmast and from Sakhi Badshah to Sufi Shah Inayat, the message was clear: love for humanity.

Sufi saints have regarded fasting as the means ... “Included in the mystical journey “way of Junaid”, are practices such as: constant ritual purity, constant fasting, constant silence ...