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Ramadan Meditations I: To Chase the Setting Sun
“The summer sun is sinking low; Only the tree-tops redden and glow: Only the weathercock on the spire Of the neighboring church is a flame of fire; All is in shadow below. O beautiful, awful summer day, What hast thou given, what taken away? Life and death, and love and hate, Homes made happy or […]
Purifying the Soul, Reigning the Preconscious
August 6, 2011
Islam, first and foremost, is about reigning the preconscious, those very invisible notions which operate beneath our conscious lives and direct our thought patterns, and purifying the soul. The abnegation of food and drink during the month of Ramadan, if done with awareness, has the effect of putting us in control of our nafs, our souls, […]
Adventures in Türkiye: Göreme (Kapadokya)
June 23, 2011
I’m in Göreme, Kapadokya, the “Land of Beautiful Horses” (in Farsi), and I’m about to leave towards Antalya for a self-guided tour along the Western coast of Türkiye. Insha’Allah, I’ll stop in Antalya first. Then, God-willing, I’ll visit Olimpos (Olympos), Bodrum, Ephesus, and Izmir. From Izmir, I’ll fly to Van, a town near the eastern border […]
Tasbih, the Muslim Rosary
May 8, 2011
A couple of days ago at the the office (I sound like a middle-aged man – may God help me), a Catholic co-worker of mine, an older gentlemen from up state New York, and I were discussing the beautification and canonization of Pope John Paul II when he, somewhat out of the blue, commented on […]
A Muslim Perspective on the Serenity Prayer
January 19, 2011
“God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time, Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace, Taking, as Jesus […]
The Beatitudes
November 29, 2010
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم In the Name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful Of the many things I have come to recycle from my Catholic upbringing, I can say the Beatitudes (Latin for “blessings”) and the Sermon on the Mount resonant with me the most now that I am a Muslim. The Sermon […]
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