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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...

May 2020

May 05, 2020

Prayers Are Answered in the Still of the Night

A week and a half before Ramadan, I was awake in the early hours of...

November 2019

November 12, 2019

Creedence Clearwater and the Rain that Fell on Muhammad

Back in the late 60s and early 70s, Creedence Clearwater Revival were one of the...

June 2019

June 02, 2019

The expectancy of listening

Be patient and persistent in fasting: be always expecting the Food of God. For God,...

May 2019

May 28, 2019

The Mystical Heart of Ramadan

As we enter the last ten days of Ramadan, my thoughts turn to Laylatul Qadr,...

January 2019

January 05, 2019

“Hello Silence, My Old Friend”

Sitting in a Quaker meeting recently, it occurred to me that if Muhammad (peace be...

October 2018

October 12, 2018

Islam: Containing Beauty and Joy

I have often wondered why the Beautiful and the Joyful do not usually appear in...

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...

August 2017

August 24, 2017

Sacred Space: Making Prayer Beautiful

My childhood memories of the mosque hardly evoke the idea of sacred space. I recall...

May 2017

May 22, 2017

The Feminine Power Supporting the Prophets

I was struck by Jim Garrison and Banafsheh Sayyad’s article last year for the Huffington...

January 2017

January 27, 2017

Mother Nature and the 99 Names

One of the aims of our new book The 99 Names of God is to...

December 2016

December 27, 2016

America of the Heart: Whitman and Rumi

As we enter deeper into the introspection of the winter months and America continues to...

October 2016

October 21, 2016

Feminine Symbols in Islam

    Islam and the Divine Feminine? Really? Yes, as improbable as it may seem,...

July 2016

July 21, 2016

If You Only Knew This About The Prophet

  This is the fifth in my series of 11 Love Letters to the Prophet...

May 2016

May 20, 2016

Making Love: Leonard Cohen and the Sufis

My journey to Islam started with Leonard Cohen. In his album, Recent Songs, Cohen writes...

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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