Throughout history there have been lights that have come into the world whose purpose was to bring light to humanity. The enlightened ones, interestingly enough, come to give light and to help people understand the nature of their existence, and the reason for their existence, and why, in fact, they were created. And these enlightened […]
If you travel around the world you will note that in different sections of the world religious observances are different. If you go to the Indian subcontinent in Asia you’ll notice that Hinduism is the majority religion, and it has a particular way to it, it has a particular look to it, it has a
Whenever people are around babies, the joy that the baby has becomes the joy for the whole room. Everybody wants to touch the baby, everybody wants to look at the baby, everybody wants to smile at the baby, and the baby smiles back at everybody else. A baby can make an entire room joyous. Now,
In the world of high tech, right now, they are creating what they call virtual reality, and they do it in many different ways. People play games on their computers wherein they live in make-believe worlds, and they compete with other people on other computers, and it becomes a large part of their life. People
There was once a king, who had reached a personal milestone in his reign, and he wanted to celebrate with the people of his kingdom, so he announced that on a certain day in the following months his palace would be open, and the people of the kingdom could come and ask what they wanted
We came from love and we shall return to love, and we need not fear, for love is our fortune. Allah has decreed in His mercy that man has, and is given, the ability to love. Since we are aware that we are created from love and that we will return to love, why do
There was a prince who had lived in the confines of his father’s, the king’s, estate his whole life. He had never really gone outside the doors of the castle grounds. One day his father said, “There’s a man that I want you to meet, he’s a holy man, and I want you to sit
Sufism used to be practiced in Dargahs. Dargah is another word for monastery. The Sufi dervishes would each have small rooms inside a building that was constructed to house devotees, which was sort of usually placed at a distance from the rest of the community. Men who had decided that they wanted to devote their
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One of the methods of meditation, or prayer, that’s common to all of the different Sufi Tariqats, or Sufi groups, is dhikr. And dhikr means the repetition of the names of God and meditating while saying those names. An example would be Rahman and Rahim, which are mercy and compassion, and the repetition of “ar-Rahman
We are walking around, sitting around, riding around, and flying around on a planet in a solar system, in a universe, in a galaxy – or in a galaxy in a universe. We look up and we see many, many things, and then when we look down we know that beneath us there are many
