"dhel" & he in Azerbaijan (A-th-erbaijan)

The name of Azerbaijan seems to come from the ancient Persian Zoroastrian Religion and it still translates to mean "the treasurer of the hold fire" in Modern Persian.  Azerbaijan is a secular and democratic Shai muslim state bridging Iran and Turkey along the Caspian Sea.  After Azerbaijan became the first Muslim nation to give women the right to vote and establish a parliament in 1918, the Soviet Union quickly invaded the small country for access to it's oil and gas resources in 1920.  During WWII, Azerbaijan supplied most of the Soviet's oil.  Azerbaijan has wavered back and forth between Democracy and Autocracy since it's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.  In addition to being oil rich, the country has a diverse landscape covered in lots of mountains, lakes and abundant life.

I. The mystic scholar from Baku like to get away from the city sometimes on the weekends to go to a quiet lake in the mountains, and this weekend he has gone to his favorite lakeside retreat again.

II.  Nature reminds him of God and his spiritual practice.

III.  Sometimes he will also bring Rumi poetry his Sheik gave him, and then he studies the lessons given to him about the meaning of the poems.

IV.  During the week he works at a local newspaper, and when he can he disseminates some of the insights he gleans from his spiritual practice in his op-ed pieces.

V.  His op-ed isn't specifically spiritual since he works at a secular paper in an avowedly secular country.  However, he uses an excuse every chance he gets to slip spiritual insights into his writing, even if what he says is not explicitly spiritual.

VI.  There is one other mystic like himself at his work, and he loves it when they are able to have lunch together as they remind each other of the signs of God and the Divine Names they experience each day in their lives.

VII.  Sometimes, when he isn't able to see his friend or get away to the lake, he gets distracted and absentminded loosing sight of the love, joy, peace and compassion he finds in his mediations on God, and the rat race sucks him into the hustle  and bustle of a growing city.

VIII.  Then he finds he starts dreaming of how he will save money, hoard wealth, and accumulate riches if he can invest in the right new businesses he sees springing up all the time.

X.  But it's a dog eat dog world too often in his city, and he starts to get depressed when he gets too involved in it.  He doesn't want to be fierce and cruel like a wolf and after all, that's why he's just a writer and not a rough and tumble businessman in an ex-soviet satellite state.  He doesn't want gangsterism.  He wants God.