Notes on Yasmin Mogahed’s Reclaim your Heart. “Have you seen him who take his low desires for his god?” – Quran [25: 33-43] Every human being has a void in their heart, and trying to fill it with other than the Creator leads to what we call: attachments. Attachments to […]
The human soul is the state of the heart and it is the essence of the body. It is believed in Islam that we are all born in this world with full submission to our Creator, God, and as we grow, ego takes form and it is diseased societies that […]
The heart is the center of the human being. Many people think that the brain is the center of consciousness, yet the Quran (Islamic Sacred Book) states, “They have hearts that they are not able to understand with.” According to the Muslims, the center of the human consciousness is the […]
What we perceive around us in this sensory realm versus all that exists, independently of anyone’s perception. Are we in a social trance? Do we see beyond material nature and the ultimate portrayal of human society? I lived most of my life with little regard passed the material realm. I […]
When a given society loses its belief in God, or at least it’s concrete sense that God is actually watching, people turn each other into objects in just this way. We forget that we are dependent for our very existence upon God’s attention to us; we treat our separate individuality, […]
The media is doing excellent PR work promoting biased stories on radical Islam/ Muslims, Islamophobia and the Muslim community at large – in parallel, however, over half of the west is reverting to Islam. The cool kids say bad PR is good PR. The kids are right. “But they plan, […]
We are part of a historical continuum. Petra (Al-Batra’), a world wonder of human genius was once a wealthy trade town home to the Nabateans tribe. It stands now as a marvelous haunted city of rocks and jinns, this pathway was filled with merchants selling precious commodities from all over […]
