In order to actually go on this path you have to develop empathy. In other words you have to be able to feel other people. You have to be able to feel their pain. You have to be able the feel their joy, their difficulty and their happiness. You have to be able to get […]
In a very interesting way we are our consciousness. We define ourselves in many different ways. We define ourselves by our race, by our nationality, by our language, by our religion, by our wealth, by our same, by our status, by our titles. But in a very interesting way we are consciousness. All of these
In Islam there are five recognized pillars of the religion: lā ilaha illallah, muhammadun rasulullāh, there is no God but and Mohammed is his messenger; prayer; fasting; charity; and hajj, the pilgrimage which every Muslim is to do once in their lifetime if they can afford it, if it’s feasible. But the basis, the bedrock,
In case you didn’t know, there was a snake in the Garden of Eden. The snake had a job. The snake’s job was to somehow approach man or woman and create a divergence that would allow the snake pull man away from the instructions given by Allah. Why was this possible? Why did the possibility
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As a being, we have a spiritual side and a worldly side. Our worldly side is elemental, made up of elements, and requires elements for its sustenance. It requires the things that come from the world in order to maintain itself. From a purely nourishment point of view, it has to eat; it has to
You may all remember a few years ago in the news there was a story about a boy who had to live in a bubble because his immune system broke down and he could not take interaction with the atmosphere the way it exists ordinarily that we all walk through. He couldn’t walk through it
When we approach someone and we haven’t seen them in awhile, we say “Salaamu alaikum” and they say back “Wa alaikum as-salaam.” Salaam means “peace”. Salaam is also a name of Allah, a name of God. So when we meet somebody we say to them “God be with you and peace be with you” and
Everybody is asking about what techniques should they use in order to a state where peace is possible. In order to get to a state where the things that we talk about become accessible. How does one go about leaving the chaotic world and entering into the world of reality, the world of God’s qualities?
People are always indicating that they would like to find peace in their lives, but they don’t seem to be able to accomplish it. Of course, people are always looking for peace in places where peace isn’t necessarily found. It sometimes seems that the American idea of peace is sitting on a beach somewhere, semi-falling
God is a great power. Allah is a great power. In order to understand the nature of our existence and our place within the nature of existence, we must have some comprehension of the nature of this great power. We must have some idea of what it is that this great power does and what
