Salam alaikum! 🙏🏻 “By God’s mercy, you (Prophet) were gentle toward them. If you had been rude and hard-hearted, they would have turned away from you. Pardon them, ask forgiveness for them, and consult them about the matter, but once you decide on a course of action, put your trust in God. God loves those…Read more Sufi Meditation 24.01.2022
Malcolm X: Wings
“Awareness came surging up in me - how deeply the religion of Islam had reached down into the mud to lift me up, to save me from being what I inevitably would have been: a dead criminal in a grave, or, if still alive, a flinthard, bitter, thirty-seven-year-old convict in some penitentiary, or insane asylum.…Read more Malcolm X: Wings
Friday Reflections 21.01.2022
Salam alaikum and Jummah Mubarak! I read and discuss the sohbet, “The Meaning of a Clean Heart” by Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Adil al-Haqqani from his book, “Liberating the Soul: A Guide for Spiritual Growth, Volume 4”, pages 43-49. May Allah ﷻ grant us humility and to always be connected to Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and the…Read more Friday Reflections 21.01.2022
What Islam Actually Teaches About Synagogues in the Quran.
“[They are] those who have been driven from their homes unjustly, for saying only that ‘Our Lord is God.’ And, if God did not intervene by using some people to drive out others, many monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques, where God’s name is much remembered, would have been destroyed. God is sure to help those…Read more What Islam Actually Teaches About Synagogues in the Quran.
Friday Reflections 14.01.2022
Salam alaikum and Jummah Mubarak! I read and discuss the Tenth Discourse of Shaykh Abdul-Qadir Al-Jilani from the book, “The Removal of Cares” (Jala Al-Khawatir), pages 77-82 in my copy of the book, translated by Muhtar Holland (1997). May Allah ﷻ bless, forgive, and guide us all. 🤲🏻 https://youtu.be/libbD8PEjAA Recorded live on 14th January 2022.
Janaza of Prof. Khaleel Mohammed
Thank you to everyone who joined us online for the funeral (janaza) of Prof. Khaleel Mohammed of San Diego State University. We pray Allah ﷻ grants Prof. Khaleel a high station in Paradise in the company of the prophets and saints, and grants his family and friends patience and steadfastness. Amin. 🤲🏻 O Allah, forgive…Read more Janaza of Prof. Khaleel Mohammed
Sufi Meditation 10.01.2022
Salam alaikum! 🙏🏻 “Return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing [to Him], go in among My worshipers, and into My Garden.”~ Holy Quran 89:29-30 (Safi Kaskas) “On the day I die, when I'm beingcarried toward the grave, don't weep.Don't say, ‘He's gone! He's gone!'Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets and the…Read more Sufi Meditation 10.01.2022
Friday Reflections 07.01.2022
Salam alaikum and Jummah Mubarak! SHAYKH UBAYD ALLAH AL-AHRAR I read and discuss the life and teachings of Shaykh Ubayd Allah Al-Ahrar from the book, “The Naqshbandi Sufi Way, History and Guidebook of the Saints of the Golden Chain” by Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, pages 201-13. May Allah ﷻ bless our shaykhs and raise…Read more Friday Reflections 07.01.2022
Concepts of God
Interesting thoughts on how people perceive and understand divinity. Depending upon where people are in their own development influences how they see and understand God or gods, or whether even they believe in any god at all. “To him who has not the power of God, the power of God does not exist. To him…Read more Concepts of God
Paul Salahuddin Armstrong 