The Garden of Truth

In the Islamic world Sufism is the most powerful antidote to the religious radicalism called fundamentalism as well as the most important source for responding to the challenges posed for Islam by modernism

The traditional Islamic garden is an earthly reflection of Paradise, and the word paradise itself comes from the Middle Persian word pardīs, meaning garden, and is also the origin of the Arabīc word firdaws, meaning paradise and garden. Using the symbol of the garden, the Quran refers to Paradise itself as the Garden