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May 2020

May 13, 2020

All Food is Sacrifice

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

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...

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...

June 2019

June 15, 2019

Following Unexpressed Pain Into the Arms of Mercy

More than previous Ramadans, this year the holy month felt like a journey with my...

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,...

May 16, 2019

Swimming in Divine Abundance: The Ninety-Nine Names of God

I have written previously about my fasting challenges and how I try to focus on...

June 2018

June 05, 2018

Nurturing Intimacy During Ramadan

It’s well after midnight and burning candles flicker in my dimly lit living room. Music...

May 2018

May 23, 2018

5 Ways to Experience Ramadan Without Fasting

A chronic illness has prevented me from fasting for a number of years now. Initially...

July 2017

July 04, 2017

Ramadan with Shams: The Ambush of Love

This Ramadan, I drank from the wisdom of Shams of Tabriz contained in the...

June 2017

June 21, 2017

Understanding Ramadan Anew: Taken Apart, Put Back Together Again

Each year we discover new meanings and experiences during Ramadan. It seems that in Ramadan...

June 06, 2017

Preventing Spiritual Flabbiness: The Benefits of Regular Fasting

Several years ago, one of the most-thoughtful readers of my blog commented on a piece...

May 2017

May 29, 2017

The Timelessness of Hunger

“O you who have faith, fasting is ordained for you as it has been ordained...

June 2016

June 27, 2016

The night of a thousand months

In the name of God, the Infinitely Compassionate, the Infinitely Merciful We sent it (the...