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.
There was a 70-year-old man who had been a grave digger since he was 20 years old and had been working at the same cemetery. And during a funeral someone was told about the fact that this man had been there for so long, a younger person. And they went up and asked him, “In […]
The Prophet (Sal.) came into this world to raise consciousness. He came here to take men to a new understanding of things. He came to take men to a higher level than they were at. In a pagan understanding of things, the morality-based lifestyle that is brought about by the laws that were brought doesn’t
Knowledge is at the core of things; and to understand certain ideas, first you have to have knowledge of those ideas. Those ideas have to be presented to you somehow. In order to conceptualize the ideas, you have to have them. And often you need methodology to be able to conceptualize ideas. And there’s lots
In Turkey as in other places, when holy men pass, they are put into sort of a tomb. They call them turbays, and they’re usually the same. They consist of a box over the grave, and cloth is put over the box. And then people come to pay reverence to the deceased holy man. There
Allah is one and alone. Allah is incomparable in His serenity and peacefulness. Allah is without need and without want. All that is is within Him. All that exists is within Him. He is at the center of everything. He is the personification of dignity.
In politics now a word that has become popular in usage is transparency. Everyone claims that their motives are transparent and their tax returns are transparent and their objectives are transparent, but their opposition is hiding everything. And they’re not transparent at all. And they call and bang the table and ask for transparency in
There’s always a lot of talk about the illusory nature of existence and entering reality. Well, they’re nice words, but do they have any meaning? And what in fact do they mean? What’s illusory mean? What’s reality mean? If somebody came up to me 30 or 40 years ago and said, “You must enter reality,”
The world is full of fortune-tellers, and everyone is very intrigued about their fortunes. There are palm readers. There are astrologists. There are tea leaf readers. There are chicken bone readers. There are people who tell fortunes from the movements of geckos. Everyone wants to know what’s going to happen to them. Everyone is intrigued
When Allah created man, He created a creation that had within it the highest and the lowest of all that Allah created. In other words He created a creation that had all of creation within it, the penultimate of Allah’s creation. Man has the capacity and the capability to be as low as a worm
Swimming is an activity that can only be done under certain conditions. First you need water, and then you need to be in a position where you are able to swim. For instance, if you are carrying your groceries, you can’t swim unless you drop them. If you are carrying bars of gold, you can’t
