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The Spiritual Wardrobe
Once a Sufi was asked why he wore blue robe. He replied: “The Prophet left us three things: poverty, knowledge and sword. The sword was taken by kings, who misused it; knowledge was chosen by scholars, who were satisfied with merely teaching it; poverty was chosen by dervishes, who made it a means of enriching […]
Camel and the Eye of the Needle
One of the stock metaphors that the three Semitic religions-Judaism, Christianity and Islam- share is a huge animal passing through the eye of needle. In the Quran, the metaphor appears in the 40th verse in the chapter 7, where the Quran describes the arrogant ones as having such a huge size that makes it impossible […]
Shekhina: To Disarm Our Heart
On the Wings of Shekhinah Rediscovering Judaism’s Divine Feminine Leah Novick Quest Books 09/08 Paperback $17.95 ISBN: 9780835608619 Rabbi Leah Novick is a pioneer in restoring the Divine Feminine to contemporary Judaism. She is active in the Jewish Renewal movement and leads workshops around the globe. In a time when the world yearns for […]
Dalits According to the Quran?
A question arises: ‘Do the oppressed signify Muslims alone?’ Most Islamist groups the world over single out as beneficiaries of their multifarious projects as Muslims even in societies where there are weaker sections than Muslims In the Quran, the word mus’taḍʿafīna (widely translated as ‘weak’ and ‘oppressed’) and its verbal derivative us’tuḍ’ʿifū and is’taḍʿafūnī (be […]
The Rohingya Genocide
The very mention of Myanmar or Burma brings to our mind the picture of a military junta which has continued to ride a roughshod over the people for many decades and of Aung San Suu Kyi who is leading a frontline battle against the junta. None needs to be informed that a majority of people […]
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