An Hour That Passes
“My life is but an instant, an hour that passes by; To love you, my dearest God, I only have today.” – St. Therese of Lisieux “He who sells his next life for his present…
Tag: Islam
Imam Ali (as) and Imam Hussein (as): Saints and Guides for All of Humanity
“Should poverty, illness and death not exist, man would not bow to anything.” Imam Hussein (as) “Be like the flower that gives off its fragrance even to the hand that crushes it.” Imam Ali…
Cemetery Story: A Muslim’s Memoir
I enter the cemetery and follow the all too familiar winding paths. Overhead the jets taking off and landing at Hobby airport assault my ears with the roaring of their turbine engines. The anterior graves…
The Islamic Perspective of The Virgin Mary and Jesus the Messiah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon them)
The Holy Personages of the Virgin Mary and Jesus the Messiah are highly revered in Islam, so much so that a heart devoid of belief of them, invalidates the faith of a Muslim. The Holy…
Rabia’s Heart of One Love
Introduction Rabia al-Adawiyya I first discovered when I was very young. From the moment I read about her, I was instantly enamoured with an admiration that has never faded. She is among the earliest of…
Nusaybah: Bravest of Believers
Village in Arabia, circa 7th Century In the training yard, a middle-aged man and a teenage boy circled and lunged at one another, the air cracking as their weapons clashed. “I yield!” cried the boy, as…
A Poem for Eid
by Avellina Balestri (For my Muslim friends, whose ancestry lies across the Islamic East, particularly Adil Mulk, and in solidarity with the struggles of the Palestinian people.)People of the East,Carved of earth and sand,Cut by river…