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July 2021

July 23, 2021

The Hajj and Forgiveness

On Monday, the pilgrims marched out in their great multitudes from the plain of Mina...

April 2021

April 17, 2021

Unite with the Living

Listen to the voices of the holy in our breasts. By their hearts all...

August 2020

August 14, 2020

What Do We Need a Spiritual Path For?

Excerpted from the forthcoming In the House of Remembering, The Living Tradition of Sufi Teaching,...

August 01, 2020

The Spiritual Opportunity of Working on Your Own Racism

“To know love, become we.” - Mevlana Four years ago, as a journalist, I...

May 2020

May 23, 2020

Finding Forgiveness with al-Ghafur

“That floss is going to give you a fit,” Miss Lou-Ann clucked as she watched...

May 13, 2020

All Food is Sacrifice

"You are cutting this apple with such presence,” a dear friend once observed as I...

April 2020

April 28, 2020

Ramadan, Ancestors, & The Lightness of Being

Your inner being is a sanctuary, cleanse it with the light of compassionate awareness. [Threshold...

October 2019

October 21, 2019

How Beauty Evokes Love in Sufism

I have been fortunate during my spiritual training to have been inspired by some extraordinary...

July 2019

July 14, 2019

Beauty as a Way of Life

There are so many manifestations of beauty in life. This has always been for me...

July 03, 2019

What if Allah is Beautiful and Loves Beauty?

What if Muslims who are in positions of religious authority acted as if Allah...

April 2019

April 21, 2019

Be Humble in Love; Be Bold in Loving

Sooner or later those who travel the path of God will encounter a series of...

April 06, 2019

Sacred Space: Lighting the Lamps Within

When I imagine sacred space, my first impulse is to think of the soft, thick...

March 2019

March 26, 2019

Why it’s a spiritual duty to develop the imagination

When the mirror of your heart becomes clear and pure, you'll behold images which...

January 2019

January 19, 2019

La Illaha illa Allah and Connecting to Our Shadows

We all have psychological blind spots, aspects of our personalities that are hidden from our...