At the heart of the universal values of spirituality

The Sufi Culture Festival continues in Fez, continuing to unveil the many secrets of spiritual fulfilment. It is a true therapy for the soul that the public, present in large numbers on 13 April at the Batha Museum, was treated to in order to attend the "samaâ" evening of the Bouchichiyya and Siqilliya tariqas. Divine invocation, "dikr", mystical poetry and prayers sung a cappella, all the ingredients were there for a most majestic result. Communicating subtle meanings and a spiritual aspiration that orient the spirits towards the divine source, the members of these two brotherhoods aroused in the audience an ecstatic emotion and an incomparable spiritual intoxication. After this magical evening, the festival audience resumed, on 14 April, its initiatory path, in the footsteps of Ibn Arabi, as part of a round table dedicated to the biography of this great Muslim thinker. Speaking on thi…