There’s a story about an Arab who was doing prayers with the Prophet and at the end of prayer he was walking out, and the Prophet was already done, he was standing in the doorway, and he looked at him and he said, “You did your prayers wrong. Go back and do them again.” And […]
In Catholicism, there is an understanding that they call original sin, it’s an understanding that man, when he comes into this world, is in a fallen state and the only way he can arise from this fallen state is through the grace of God. In Bawa’s explanation, we are all born with karma, arrogance, and
Our teacher, Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, referred to himself as an ant man, the smallest, most discarded being in the universe. Now, I always found that that was an interesting way for him to refer to himself because being in his presence, and having gotten to know him, it was evident to me that he
In this part of the world, we have seasons; we have summer, fall, winter and spring. We’re about to enter spring, the rejuvenation of things; when things come back to life. Dormancy ends and life springs forth from the soil. Man also has seasons. He has his youth, he has his middle age, and then
When you’re in college or in university, especially college in the earlier years, you’re given lectures and you’re given books to read, and you’re given some classroom instruction, and then you’re given tests. And in the tests, you’re asked questions. And if you are capable of remembering what was written in the book, and remembering
Haqq means reality, maya means illusion. We either live in the world of maya or in the world of haqq. The ones, who are not familiar with the terminology of spirituality, or the states in spirituality, often talk about enlightenment and about their desire to become enlightened. But not having studied what haqq is about,
Allah sent 124,000 prophets. He sent Qutbs, He sent Walis; friends of God. He sent them to instruct us as to appropriate action, and He also sent them as exemplars of what to be. Mirrors for us to see who it is that we can be, and what it is we’re supposed to be. Some
