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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...

December 2019

December 12, 2019

My Mother’s Humanness and Divine Love

A man came to the Prophet Muhammad (PUH) and asked him who was the person...

February 2019

February 11, 2019

Unveiling the Qur’an

I grew up with an Islam that seemed only about hellfire and damnation. The gardens...

December 2018

December 28, 2018

Shams and the Breaking Heart

Lately I’ve been haunted by some lines from a poem called “The Testing-Tree”: In a...

September 2018

September 26, 2018

Muhammad’s Intimacy with His Rabb

  In a previous article we mentioned how the Prophet (PUH) had a deep capacity...

June 2018

June 18, 2018

Truth Is From Your Lord

“O My God, show us Truth as truth and bless us with following it and...

July 2017

July 17, 2017

The Work of Heart

Lately I've been seeing hearts everywhere I look. In a magazine I was reading, I...

April 2017

April 04, 2017

What the Heart Knows

My wife and I were recently invited to lead another service at our local Unitarian...

November 2016

November 10, 2016

On Animal Companions

  Dearest M, Before I came to Islam, the only story I’d ever heard about...

June 2016

June 17, 2016

The Saints: Reviving Hearts

The word “saint” seems to have accumulated some negative associations in the West. When we...

April 2016

April 26, 2016

What’s Love Got To Do With It?

  What’s Love Got To Do With It?     As Tina Turner once famously...

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