Imagine that you’ve just been in a difficult situation, let’s say in the jungle, and let’s say there were wild animals, and let’s say you were in a position where you were afraid that you were in jeopardy, and there was a shelter that you knew about that was about a mile and a half […]
I don’t know how many of you follow basketball but the NCAA Tournament is going on right now in men’s and women’s basketball. This is the Championship of the colleges, and they have this Tournament every year, and they start with 64 teams and it goes down to the final 2. In women’s basketball, Connecticut
If you walk into a sports stadium, no matter what sport they’re playing in the stadium, they all have one thing in common: they all have scoreboards. People keep score. Each game has certain rules and each game has certain ways to score, and the one who has the highest totals is usually the one
If you go to Konya, which is in Turkey, and where Rumi, Jalal ad-Din Rumi lived, they have a diorama (I think that’s the right word) they have this little building, with scenes of what dervish life was like during the time of Rumi himself. They have different scenes with people doing different things, but
When a baby is born it is helpless and it needs the protection of its mother and father in order to be able to exist. It needs to be helped. It is help-less. So at birth, the baby is under control of someone else. As it grows it stays under control, mostly of its mother,
Most countries have laws. For the most part, the criminal statutes within a country tell you what not to do, and the punishment for what happens if you do those things. They’re quite explicit and quite technical as to defining crimes, and explaining what happens if you commit those crimes. You could call it a
If you follow sports, one of the things that happens every season before they begin to play is all of the sports writers predict what’s going to happen during the season. They tell you who is going to win, who is going to lose, and what kind of season the various teams are going to
If you bring a suit, a legal action, against someone through your attorney, the papers go to that other person and they get an attorney. And the matter, before it goes any further, goes through a period of what’s called “discovery”. Discovery gives you the right to ask questions of the other party within a
If you’ve ever seen a bullfight, either on television or in Mexico, or in Spain, where they still have these things, you would notice that the man fighting the bull has this long cape-type apparatus and he waves it at the bull in order to incite reaction. So waving the cape incites the bull, the
Every religion has prayer, and every religion has ritual times for prayer; some pray once a week, some pray twice a day, some pray three times a day, some pray five times a day. In Sufism, in addition to prayer, we have what’s called “zikr”, remembrance, which is a repetition of the names of God
