Mahabba (Love)
Mahabba means fondness, tender and kind feelings, preference, and love. Love that affects and invades one’s feelings is…
Spiritual
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Passive Aggression A Bleeding Wound in Our Spiritual Life
“What did she mean with that look? Was she upset with the mess I left behind home? Is…
Souls of Immortality
Immortal souls always preserve their vitality, and in every season, they show a different sign of life. They…
Cancer: Cellular Anarchy
Cancer is a complex disease, claiming millions of lives every year. There is no single type of cancer.…
Historical Recurrences
Question: Taking into account the notion that history repeats itself, how should we view recent incidents and events…
The Gulen Movement: A Shared Bridge between the U.S. and Islam
“Life is a shared bridge of “passing over” and “coming back.” It is a passing over to other…
The Heart
Love is like Solomon, Borne aloft on the heart, its throne.[1] The heart is humanity’s most essential feature…
Fasting in Abrahamic Faiths
“O you who believe! Prescribed for you is the Fast, as it was prescribed for those before you,…
Basira and Firasa
Literally meaning perception, intelligence, discretion, evidence, and witness, insight (basira) is defined as having an eye of the…
Seeking Forgiveness in the Service of God
Question: Why is seeking forgiveness needed even right after a good work in the service of God? It…
What Generations Expect from Education
What do we mean when we mention education and training in relation to our current and future generations?…
Dhikr (Recitation of God’s Names)
Literally meaning mentioning, remembrance, and recollection, in the terminology of the Sufis dhikr denotes regular recitation of one…
Yaqin (Certainty)
Yaqin (certainty) means having no doubt about the truth of a matter and arriving at accurate, doubt-free knowledge…
All of Your Beautiful Names
O Allah I know You say There is no compulsion in religion But I don’t want this freedom…
Love in Sufi Poetry
The enduring resonance of the poetry of thirteenth-century Islamic poet, Mevlana Jalal al-Din Rumi, extends across cultures and…