I went searching for their faults
Trying to mentally get them back for all they did
Trying to comfort myself during these painful days
Hoping their shortcomings would make the pain go away
But as I searched through their closets
prepared to find skeletons galore
I found myself drowning in my own sins
sins that were hiding behind each and every door
For [...]
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I’ve been traveling a lot in the last few years of my life speaking to different communities both in the United States and abroad. In at least the last two years of my travels, there hasn’t been a lecture or event that I’ve participated in that hasn’t introduced me to at [...]
There is a story which Jalaluddin Rumi tells of an ant that’s creeping across the carpet in a mosque, and the ant complains to God saying: “what is this, these bumps, and strange colours, and patterns, this must have been created just as a meaningless obstacle course, what a futile thing [...]
Rocks hold firm while water’s might
Sends pebbles rolling left and right.
Call pebbles rock? Set firm their goal?
First flash flood, still pebbles roll.
Not name, nor goal divide the two.
It’s how they act. It’s what they do.
Size dictates to stone, but you’re in control.
Are you rock or pebble? Will you hold or roll?
- Manly Grant from Rhymes [...]
Amazing piece of advice taken directly from a talk that Dr. Abdal Hakim Jackson gave the 2010 RIS Convention.
“Please Brothers and Sisters, have some mercy on your scholars, your imams,
your activists–Brothers and Sisters. You have no idea of some of the
pressures they are under. You have no idea how thinly they [...]
Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi wrote:
“The method that I’ve employed over the course of my entire life is: That I seek to build and I don’t destroy, I unify and I don’t divide; I leave [other scholars] to make their own choices, and I will not force my opinions and legal conclusions on them, [...]
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By Edgar Albert Guest
I have to live with myself and so
I want to be fit for myself to know.
I want to be able as days go by,
always to look myself straight in the eye;
I don’t want to stand with the setting sun
and hate myself for the things I have done.
I don’t want to keep on [...]
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I was reading a book (The Etiquette of Seeking Knowledge by Shaykh Bakr Aboo Zayd) and came across a few interesting points. This is basically my summary of what I read…so if there are mistakes it is most likely my [...]
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