Inspiring Faith and Creativity & Exploring the Arts through a Spiritual Lens
I am a Canadian of Pakistani ancestry and a practicing Muslim. Not a perfect Muslim, as I swear like a sailor, but practicing as best I can. I was born in the 1980s and spent…
You are supposed to take care of things you need in your daily life routine, but if Mother is there, she will take care of it, all of it. I was about to leave for…
I'd like to start off by saying that none of the thoughts I will express here belong exclusively to me, it's the accumulation of discussions & reading from various people, scholars and books. As a…
In the context of a discussion of “Rumi in the Light of History”, I'd like to cast as much light as possible on the conversation that took place between Shams and Rumi when they first…
It’s been eleven long, interminable years since I traversed land and sea, crossed oceans and sand dunes, and embarked upon the most sacred journey a Muslim can possibly make: the Hajj (pilgrimage to…
Jihad in Islam. Just looking at those words alone without any context stirs up so many different ideas in people. For people in the west, jihad in Islam seems scary. The concept creates fear. People…
It has always seemed presumptuous, even somewhat preposterous, to me for men to pontificate in an authoritarian manner about the role of women in Islam as if the feminine principle is something which needs to…
Just as it is important to believe in God’s mercy and forgiveness, it is also necessary to base our relationship with others on forgiveness. To expect God’s forgiveness, we should forgive those who do wrong…
Light me a candle in the Holy City of my heart. And I will stand by it as the smoke ascends to heaven. Light me a candle in the Holy City of my soul.…
Humans have a great capacity for creativity and manifest their creative capacities in a myriad of ways. Simultaneously, religion enjoins us to be pious. Does religion stifle creativity by codifying personal and societal rules and,…
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