The journey of each talk covers many topics and weaves a tapestry of interwoven ideas, concepts, and explanations to reflect on, and inspire us to become more. Each talk is approximately 30 minutes long.
A couple of weeks ago, the Pope came to visit Philadelphia. Now as you all know, but people who are listening to this don’t know, we live within about three blocks of where the Pope was staying. And the Philadelphia coverage of this event was 24/7 because in the hours when he wasn’t doing anything, […]
Each of us sitting here, thank God, has a pair of eyes, and each of us are looking out and seeing through those eyes. And because we’re all in a little bit of a different location we have a different perspective on what we see. We see things a little bit differently. If you were
#220 Lose Self Consciousness and Replace With God Consciousness Read More »
Everything that you see outside in the world is also inside. Allah created man as the one creature that contained and was capable of manifesting all that Allah created. So, if you look outside and you look at the animal kingdom for instance, you see things like worms, and like sheep, and like crocodiles, and
#219 The Modifying Behavior That Changes Our Consciousness Read More »
Age and maturity don’t necessarily have anything to do with each other. So now that we have determined that age is not necessarily a sign of maturity, what is a sign of maturity? What is an indication that you are a mature being? Well, in order to establish that, we need a frame of reference;
Having the opportunity to live with an insan kamil, with a perfected human being, during one’s lifetime is a great blessing for one’s life and an opportunity that is very rare in this world. Not many people have the opportunity to live with an exalted being. Having had that opportunity and, of course, many people
In law school they use, for the most part, the case method to teach you about the law which means that you go through an appellate review of a case, which means a higher-court review of a case, and they write about what it is and then they show you the conclusions. And what you
There was a movie recently called Six Degrees of Separation and it was about how people are interconnected and just by a very slight wedge they are separated from each other, a very slight degree of separation. Well, we are all separated from truth by a certain amount of degrees of separation, sometimes a lot,
The world can make you tired. It can make you weary. It can break you down. It can put people in despondent states. And, how does it do this? Well it happens through the mind setting forth desires and then the chase for these desires, and the inability to fulfill the mind’s desires. And this
In the Old Testament there is a prohibition against idol worship and against images of God. In Islam there is a prohibition against idol worship and images of God. In Christianity the same prohibition exists, however, the interpretation of what that means is quite different. In Catholicism, on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel there
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth and eventually He got around to creating man and woman, and man roamed the earth. And time passed, and Allah sent many prophets and teachers and qutbs and friends to explain to man mans’ creation and mans’ purpose. So, Allah fashioned man and woman and
