A Pair of New Shoes
A pair of young feet in a pair of very old shoes walked along an awfully muddy road.…
Heart
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It’s me, Peter, your Stomach!
Dear Peter, when your heart was telling you about itself in the previous issue (and perhaps you got…
It’s me, Peter, your Heart!
I started working months before you were born. Even though I have kept beating ceaselessly every second inside,…
Black Locks
You shot me in the heart, set me on fire, The only rose of my fate, sweet musk-scented…
Qalb (Heart) – 1
In the words of Ibrahim Haqqi of Erzurum: The heart is the home of God; purify it from…
Heroes of Compassion
Once there were model men Roaming in our shining civilization. They breathed life into lost souls, We called…
Hal and Maqam (State and Station)
Hal (state) denotes experiencing in one’s inner world the “breaths” blowing from the realms beyond the world, and…
Firar and I’tisam (Fleeing and Taking Shelter)
Firar, which literally means to run away from something, is used in Sufism to denote the journey from…
Islam and Work
A person is not a machine that can remain indifferent to their surroundings. It is a duty for…
The Month of Ramadan and Discipline
Question: What benefits can the month of Ramadan provide for us to become disciplined people? What good habits…
Speech and Power of Expression
The most precious of values inherited from our ancestors, speech does not consist only of clarity of meaning,…
A Saturday Unlike Others
Many of us either heard about or read Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince. The hero of the…
Muhasaba (Self-Criticism or Self-Interrogation)
The word muhasaba literally means reckoning, settling accounts, and self-interrogation. In a spiritual context, however, it takes on…
An Extensive Wish in the View of Historical Recurrences
WATERFALLS OF ASSISTANCE AND EFFORT GURGLE IN THE BED OF DIVINEBLESSINGS; THEY PASS OVER OR BYPASS ANY OBSTRUCTION…
Respond in Mildness
Pope Benedict’s unfortunate speech has offended Muslims all over the world. The offensive words quoted by the Pope…