The birds fly thousands of kilometers across pains and travails to find the simurg. Not a few drop out, many die on the way. The rest make it only to burn into ashes because of the charm and their love of the simurg.

Now the birds described by the sufi poet Fariduddin Attar in his Mantiqut Thair (The Congregation of the Birds) manifest in the Group of Dusts, a group of sufis led by a 60-year-old American sufi named Sheik Fattaah who is spr