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Tafsir (Sura 7: verse 152) - false religion (the golden calf) 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The qur'an tells the story of how Samiri deceived the people with the golden calf. When Moses departs for Sinai, his whole being is suffused with the power of the Divine attraction that calls him to Itself. Samiri notices something in the dust of the footsteps of Moses.... Read more:Tafsir
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Tafsir (Sura 10: verse 104) - Honoring the Prophet 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The Prophet
(s.a.) remains silent about his nature until he is commanded to speak - this silence and reticence in the absence of a direct command is a sign of his true servanthood.... Read more:Tafsir
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Jesus: An Islamic Perspective 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The Islamic
position on Jesus
can never be understood through attempts to disprove the Christian claims concerning Jesus - this method will only give one a picture of what Jesus is not. Only by placing him within the theological, ontological, and spiritual context of Islam is it possible to gain some insight into the place of Jesus in Islam.... Read more:Perspective
A Children's Story 0000-00-00 00:00:00 There was once a King with a vast kingdom. He was a very great King, good, fair, just, merciful, loved deeply by all his subjects, by all the creatures in His kingdom. His was not an ordinary kingdom. He ruled over all of nature, the mountains, streams, skies, and the wide earth whose strength supported all of these.... Read more:Children
History and Perception 0000-00-00 00:00:00 At its best, our era is not graced with serenity. These are event driven times, full of motion, movement, turmoil - an antithesis to contemplation and careful consideration.... Read more:History
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Tafsir (Sura 8: verse 11 to 18) - Battle of Badr 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The verse
s on the first battle the Muslim's engaged in are very unique in the manner in which they combine details about the events and the physical aspects of the battle with a spiritual commentary that makes it clear that there was far more happening than simply an encounter between two opposing forces.... Read more:Tafsir
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Man and Ecology: An Islamic Perspective 0000-00-00 00:00:00 When the power of his relationship to God is applied without the temperance of the responsibility of the trust, man misuses and abuses the abilities, potentials, and rights given to him by God. Nature has been given to man as a trust and nothing more.... Read more:Islamic
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Tafsir (Sura 5: verse 116 to 120 - On Jesus) 0000-00-00 00:00:00 "Son of Mary" - This is a title that occurs only once in the New Testament
in Mark 6:3 where someone asks, "Is not this the carpenter, the son of
Mary?" Mark's gospel was the earliest - the closest to the source - and the one that was used as a basis for the other gospels. It is a phrase that is used throughout the Qur'an as an honorific title for Jesus
.... Read more:Tafsir
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Tafsir (Sura 10: verse 105) - On being hanif 0000-00-00 00:00:00 A hanif is one who verifies - so no matter what society or time he lives in, he arrives at the truth through awakening and cultivating the nature that God has placed within him - so the hanif does not deviate when society deviates - he does not follow where society leads.... Read more:Tafsir
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1st Annual Wommyn's conference (Humor) 0000-00-00 00:00:00 An all male Muslim conference
was forced to go co-ed when more women than men showed up for the conference's opening day. The organizing commitee for the World Organization for Male Muslim Youth in North america (WOMMYN) were startled to find that their first conference had drawn a largely female crowd of convention goers. "I don't know how a misunderstanding of this magnitude could occur, the very name of our group makes it quite clear that this is an organization only for male Muslim youth", said the executive spokesman..... Read more:Annual
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Going around the Kaaba 0000-00-00 00:00:00 From a society in which religion and religious symbolism exist tenuously, vaguely, on the periphery of daily existence, I fell headlong into a concentrated centre of piety, where religion and its most potent symbols exist with the compact density and power of a black hole humming at the core of a galaxy.... Read more:Going
Marriage (Nikah) in Islam 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The term nikkah which is used for marriage is also used figuratively to describe the coming together of various aspects of creation. For example it says, in the Qur'an, that "the rain married the soil" and then it describes how, from this intimate mingling, something new springs forth - that the earth brings forth flowers and herbage, it opens to new creations, new life, new potentials.... Read more:Islam
Tafsir (Sura 10: verse 30) - on the barzakh 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The qur'an speaks of two resurrections that take place after death ? the first is in the barzakh and the second is at the final judgment. A person?s life is likened to a book ? with each thought, word, and action, they are writing on the pages of their soul.... Read more:Tafsir
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Time in the Qur'an 0000-00-00 00:00:00 When the Qur'an talks of past events it often speaks of them as if these events exist within our own memories or in a collective human memory as an integral part of our own selves and of our human heritage and nature....
Tafsir (Sura 33: verse 67) - Prisoners of thought 0000-00-00 00:00:00 This world is, in a way, a projected image of the human mind. If some characteristics are more prevalent in the world, perhaps it is because those minds, those societies with such characteristics exert greater effort, leverage more resources, and therefore exert greater influence.... Read more:thought
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Tafsir (Sura 6: verse 74 to 79) - On seeing beyond forms 0000-00-00 00:00:00 These verse
s describe the spiritual vision and state of certainty granted to Abraham as a gift from Allah. In a series of revelatory or intellectual unveilings, the Reality behind existence - it's true nature - was manifested.... Read more:Tafsir
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Tafsir (Sura 39: 42) To die/to sleep (the soul/nafs) 0000-00-00 00:00:00 ....It is not only the thing seen that is of importance but the vision and the perspicacity of the one doing the seeing. God always has a relation of nearness to us - "He is nearer to you than your life- vein" (Qur'an 50:16) But for us to draw nearer to Him, we have to embark on a journey of knowledge of what is configured within our own selves.
This becomes possible through the substantive bond we have with God through our nafs..... Read more:Tafsir
Tafsir (Sura 9: 102 to 106) On Repentance 0000-00-00 00:00:00 "....We all have inner convictions and determinations, we all have intentions and aims that are beneficial to ourselves and to those around us. For many of us these convictions and determinations and intentions often live and die within us...." Read more:Tafsir
Danish cartoons and the sacred 0000-00-00 00:00:00 "The Danish
cartoons which caricatured the Prophet in different ways (including depicting him wearing a headdress shaped like a bomb), has stirred up, not surprisingly, a hornet's nest of controversy. It is yet another (in this case, somewhat silly) manifestation of an ongoing process in which secular society, acting according to an internal impulse, periodically lampoons various sacred
icons. The cartoons could have confined themselves to satirizing specific politically motivated actions and still made their point, but instead targeted the principal foundations of the faith (the Prophet and the Qur'an).
Reversing the values and meanings traditionally associated with religious iconography, personages, and texts is a common mechanism....
Israel 0000-00-00 00:00:00 ....The heart of a people is truly tested by power and wealth and not only by weakness, oppression, and inability. Patience, endurance, and fidelity is tested in weakness - but the crucible of strength and power, wealth and ability - these are advantages capable of overthrowing humility and compassion and replacing them with arrogance and open injustice. When a people have risen from near destruction to a position of solidity and undeniable presence then one can observe and wonder how much of their former tormentor's soul have they absorbed into their own.... Read more:Israel
Index of Qur'anic and Biblical verses 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Here is a compiled reference list of all the Qur'anic and Biblicalverses
referenced on the Islam from inside website, as well as links to the specific articles in which those verses appear. The Qur'anic verses are listed in sura and verse order.... Read more:Index
The hermeneutics of takfir 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The myriad facets of intellectual expression historically inspired by the Qur'an and the profound and deep hermeneutics that flowered in various historical forms and in various schools of thought stands in stark contrast to the vicious tail-swallowing vision of an ideology of takfir. For most of Muslim history, the ideology of takfir was a troubling but well-contained side-issue. In recent times, in a strange historical aberration wrought by vast global political changes, it has come into a position of destructive prominence....
Rules of political misdirection 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Like a magician working his sleight-of-hand deceptions to deceive and misdirect the eye, political
sleight-of-hand artists work their deceptions to deceive and misdirect a society's collective mind and attention. The mass media provide the stage on which the theatre of deception unfolds and on which the audience's rapt attention remains focused. It's large scale spectacle, full of drama and emotion, fear and prejudice, ideological politics and dubious aims, but ultimately hollow and bitter as these magicians are not working a benign entertainment but applying deceit and duplicity with devastating mendacity..... Read more:Rules
Raising Children 0000-00-00 00:00:00 "....Some time back I was involved in a series of internet discussions on raising children in which Christian scripture was quoted to emphasize the importance of using discipline and training to rigorously mold a child to a particular mindset. The concern in the discussion was with the use and application of Christian scripture in a way that did a disservice to the scripture itself.... Read more:Children
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Tafsir (Sura 7: 94 to 96) Prosperity and Humility 0000-00-00 00:00:00 "....Any turning away from something also involves a turning towards something else. This is the nature of the world. In the hadith describing the creation of aql (intellect) and ignorance, God commands the aql and it responds by turning towards Him, He then commands ignorance and it turns away from Him. So any turning away from His Mercy, or any arrogance towards His guidance indicates the beginnings of ignorance'.... Read more:Tafsir
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What do we know? 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Each person carries within themselves their own reality-distortion field - this consists of all the layerings of experience, opinion, tendencies, habits, desires, genetic dispositions, physical structure, psychological structure, societal and parental imprintings, media influences, educational influences, religious background, information and mis-information, knowledge and ignorance, proclivities, traditions, interpretations, encounters, and internalized worldviews that have accumulated within the individual and have over time left their traces and marks and given a shape and contour to that person's outlook - this is their internal landscape and it is one that may shift and change and assume new contours over time as an interactive feedback loop occurs between the individual and all the varying layers and levels active in the societal worlds with which they interact and in the complex interworkings of their internal world....
Tafsir (sura 6:73) - On the blowing of the trumpet 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The blowing of the trumpet
in this verse signifies the calling of everything that is in the heavens and earth to an accounting. It signifies a transformation of all existence.... Read more:Tafsir
The Concept of Intellect in Islam 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Imagine that the computer screen and all activity on the screen represents the world of material existence. The screen is considered as the horizontal dimension of the computer. A program is running that simulates a small universe complete with simulated beings.... Read more:Islam
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Podcast - Fall of Adam 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Several years ago William Chittick gave a lecture at our local university on Ahmad Sam'ani's view of Adam's fall as elaborated in Sam'ani's work, "The Ease of Spirits in Explaining the Names of the All-Conquering King" ("Rawh al-arwah fi sharh asma' al-malik al-fattah").
It's a fascinating and beautiful lecture (reflective of the excellence of Chittick's work in general) and I have wanted for some time to make it available online but did not feel right doing so without first obtaining Chittick's permission. I was recently put in contact with him and he has very graciously, granted permission. The lecture is now available as a podcast. You can listen to it here or subscribe/listen to it as a podcast in iTunes.... Read more:Podcast
Tafsir 10:30 - The living from the dead 0000-00-00 00:00:00 God is the author of life and death? He creates things with the capacity to receive life under certain circumstances, and sets up the systems by which physical matter organizes into complex forms and comes alive. Within these systems He also sets up the conditions and parameters (health, nourishment etc.) within which life continues, and the limits (old age, disease, injury etc.) beyond which it will be withdrawn, revealing the death eclipsed and concealed within the living.... Read more:Tafsir
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