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2018-05-23T09:05:00-04:00

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5 Ways to Experience Ramadan Without Fasting

Last updated on: May 23, 2018 at 9:05 am By Saimma Dyer

A chronic illness has prevented me from fasting for a number of years now. Initially I felt like I was missing out on Ramadan because I wasn’t doing it ‘properly’. I went to extremes – packing the month with extraordinary intentions to ‘make-up’ for not being able to fast. As the years pass I am learning how to experience Ramadan beyond the outer forms and cultivate a deeper appreciation for the essence of this blessed month. 1. Develop Gratitude Develop... Read more

2018-05-19T07:33:13-04:00

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Coming Home to the Sufi Kitchen

Last updated on: May 19, 2018 at 7:33 am By Anna Rohleder

What would life be like if you all you had ever eaten was dirt? That’s how a teacher of mine once explained the effect of social and cultural conditioning. “Imagine you’ve been eating mud from the time you were a baby. You wouldn’t want a carrot or an apple,” he said. Knowing the nutritional value of those fruits and vegetables wouldn’t be enough to change your diet, even if you had become ill as a result. In order to stop... Read more

2018-04-09T20:11:31-04:00

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The Many Directions of Prayer

Last updated on: April 9, 2018 at 8:11 pm By Anna Rohleder

Lately I’ve been having a funny mix-up: I keep opening the prayer app on my phone when I want to get directions. No doubt it has something to do with the fact that my Google maps app is right above the little minaret icon on my phone’s home screen. But somehow I think there is more to it than the errant tap of a finger. I’ve been looking at maps more often than usual because I’ve been traveling a lot... Read more

2018-03-24T03:15:31-04:00

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My Journey From ‘Moderate’ Muslim to Seeker of Love

Last updated on: March 24, 2018 at 3:15 am By Daliah Merzaban

For many years starting at around the time of the 9-11 terror attacks, I referred to myself a “moderate Muslim.” I used the term on my Facebook profile and pronounced it if asked about my religious beliefs. The label was in many ways a reactive disclaimer to popular opinion about Muslims. It meant for me that I was raised in an Arab, Islamic household in the West, I rejected extremism and was tolerant of diversity and multiculturalism. I was an... Read more

2018-04-27T05:53:54-04:00

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Book Review: Rumi Comes to America

Last updated on: April 27, 2018 at 5:53 am By Daniel Thomas Dyer

Author: Bruce Miller Publisher: Miller eMedia What happens when a mercurial Englishman living in 1970’s California invites into his community of spiritual seekers a Turkish Muslim mystic? The answer can be found in this book. The Turkish mystic was one Suleyman Hayati Loras Dede, and the mercurial Englishman one Reshad Feild. The author, Bruce Miller, was an integral part of Feild’s community and the book begins with a brisk sketch of what they were up to before Dede’s arrival. We... Read more

2018-02-10T06:16:38-04:00

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Thanking Big

Last updated on: February 10, 2018 at 6:16 am By Daliah Merzaban

I’d just finished getting my hair cut and styled at the one salon in London that specializes in curls only to walk out the door to find it was pouring rain. The nearest Tube station was shut that Saturday for engineering works, so I scurried down the side streets of the West London neighborhood to the closest alternative, about a 20-minute walk away. Determined to protect my neatly defined coils from unravelling into a mass of frizz, I huddled under... Read more

2018-02-02T17:18:50-04:00

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Patience: The Key to Joy

Last updated on: February 2, 2018 at 5:18 pm By Daniel Thomas Dyer

Patience has been on my mind a lot recently, perhaps because I realise it’s a virtue I need to cultivate. I often notice how I become impatient when I am thwarted, or even just momentarily distracted, in the midst of some task I feel is important. It goes hand-hand with a tunnel vision in which I am less present and open to what is being offered in the moment. The Oxford English Dictionary defines patience as: “The capacity to accept... Read more

2018-01-22T20:01:10-04:00

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If the Quran Were a Film

Last updated on: January 22, 2018 at 8:01 pm By Anna Rohleder

The opening scenes of the film show men made of mud, their backs bowed under the weight of sacks. In his narration of these pictures taken of a gold mine in Brazil, the photographer says, “When I came upon this place, every hair on my body stood on end. It was as though I was seeing the entire history of mankind, from the building of the pyramids to the tower of Babel. There wasn’t the sound of a single machine... Read more

2017-12-13T23:43:39-04:00

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Awakening the Sacred Feminine In All of Us

Last updated on: December 13, 2017 at 11:43 pm By Daliah Merzaban

Huddled at the back, left-hand corner of a large hall, me and a handful of other women would gather to take part in the Islamic Friday prayer at our university in British Columbia the early 2000s. Meanwhile at the front of the room, where light streamed in from the windows, dozens of young men stood side-by-side in rows. We recited the same prayer, but the gap in our experience was far wider than the swath of carpet separating the masculine... Read more

2017-11-30T11:54:10-04:00

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Muhammad and Rumi on Sexual Harassment

Last updated on: November 30, 2017 at 11:54 am By Kabir Helminski

It is a time of reckoning for men around the world who have disrespected and brought distress and harm upon women. Rumi, writing about what could be called the “sacred feminine,” quotes the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him): The Prophet said, “Woman prevails over the wise man, while the raw and ignorant prevail over her.” Those men who lack tenderness and affection are animals, not men. [see Mathnawi I 2421-2437] To paraphrase: woman can dominate a wise... Read more

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