We live in a hectic world. There is a constant bombardment of noise in this world. When you get into the car you turn on the radio, and they’re either blaring news or music at you. When you come home you turn on the television and it is constantly talking, or you put on the […]
Ever since the beginning man has always questioned and asked for answers as for solutions to his dilemmas. When Adam was first created by Allah, Adam was given dominion over the earth. He was given the right to name the animals. He was given control over everything. Yet Adam wasn’t satisfied, he needed something else.
At the core of Islam is the idea of surrender, the concept of surrender. And to truly understand the path, one has to understand surrender, and one has to be capable of surrendering. The concept of surrender and the qualities that it takes to surrender have to be understood. It’s very difficult for somebody to
A professor was taking a ferry across a rather long river, and he was the only passenger with the man who was steering and directing the boat. And they began talking, and he said to the man, “Have you learned your arithmetic?” And the man said, “No.” He said, “Well you’ve wasted one-third of your
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In the new wave of medicines they are producing methodologies wherein your own systems are induced to heal you. Instead of giving you things that do the work, they give you things that make your body do the work itself. In the same way, a sheikh, a teacher, is there to induce you to become
To be able to keep our emotions under control, to be able to stay within the confines of a calm demeanor, takes practice. We become habituated to that which we constantly do, and if we constantly, or regularly, lose our temper, it’s going to take a while before you can stop losing your temper because
In our daily life we are constantly in contact with the world. We are constantly interfacing with the world. We are constantly manipulating the things that we see in the world to our own benefit. We are constantly doing things to make the world move in a certain direction for us. We see the world,
There is much that is beyond our ability to comprehend and for many people this makes great difficulty because they’re uncomfortable not knowing. They’re uncomfortable not being in control of things. It leaves them feeling empty that they don’t know answers to things. Yet we are fated not to know answers to things. It is
A man in a bazaar was selling watermelons and he was screaming, “The sweetest there is! The sweetest there is!” A dervish walked into the bazaar and he heard, “The sweetest there is!” and he fainted because he was concentrating on Allah and “the sweetest there is” is Allah. So the dervish didn’t need the
Within the past few days both the Islamic calendar and the Hebraic calendar have reached the time of the New Year. And the New Year is celebrated, and the New Year, in many traditions, including the English tradition, is a time of making resolutions for the next year, and it’s a time of asking forgiveness
