Ibrahim, or Abraham, is considered the patriarch of the three major monotheistic religions of the world, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. When Abraham was a young man, he was told by Allah to leave his profession, to leave his home, his country and to go out into a new land. He was promised that he would […]
We have all known tender moments. We have all known moments when we were overcome by sadness. We have all known moments when we have been overcome by joy. We have all had moments of exultation. We have all had of depression. We have run the gamut of emotions in our existence and if we
If someone were to ask you to tell them what “evil” meant, I think that you’d be able to do it and it wouldn’t be too difficult an assignment. But if someone asked to tell them what “holy” meant, I think it would be more difficult for you to be able to come to cognizance
When we first began to study arithmetic and we got involved in division, we were usually taught about something called the lowest common denominator. It works like this, if you divide thirty into ninety, you can take the zeroes off the ninety and you will still get the same answer, three. A common denominator means
People are always looking for peace, yet most people don’t know the way to find it. They don’t know what is keeping them from being peaceful. What’s interesting is, for the most part, people try and use that which keeps them un-peaceful to try and make them peaceful. What am I talking about? The mind.
The prophets, in their lifetime, went through great difficulties in their worldly existence. Mohammed had to leave Mecca because there was a plot to kill him. On the way out he had to hide and the story of the spiders in the cave. He finally got to Medina and you would think that the people
There’s a story of the sheikh who was at his home during the evening with some of his students. There was a knock on the door and one of the students ran to answer it and came right back in. The sheikh asked him “What was it?” He said “Oh it’s nothing.” The sheikh persisted,
People speak of having transcendent moments, moments where the event that occurred was so extraordinary that they describe them as being out-of-body experiences or experiences beyond the normative of their daily or worldly lives. Psychologists, secular psychologists have tried to describe these moments. In speaking to a psychologist once he mentioned that one of these
In the world the way we live it right now, we have institutions that exist that didn’t exist in the past. One of these institutions is advertising. Advertising tries to sell you an idea that things are a certain way and that there will be certain results if you follow what the advertising tells you
In the American legal system, if you are charged with a crime, you have an absolute right not to testify against yourself. It’s part of the understandings that we have in our judicial system in that you can’t be forced to incriminate yourself. The state has to prove its case against you. You are not
