PHILADELPHIA, March 9, 1790. REVEREND AND DEAR SIR— I RECEIVED your kind letter of January 28, and am glad you have at length received the portrait of governor Yale from his family, and deposited it in the college library. He was a great and good man, and had the merit of doing infinite service to your…Read more Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Ezra Stiles
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Prayer for our Brothers and Sisters in our Human Family
Our thoughts and prayers at this time are with those who are grieving, suffering pain, or who have been affected by the terrible earthquake and tsunami in Japan. O Allah, may everyone sense Your loving compassion, which calms our troubled hearts and shelters our anxious souls. We remember those who have died and we pray…Read more Prayer for our Brothers and Sisters in our Human Family
The Enemy Within…
By Paul Salahuddin Armstrong Co-Director, AOBM “A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his…Read more The Enemy Within…
Every Moment Love’s A New Surge Of Spring
By Bulleh Shah Every moment love's a new surge of spring The lesson of love-rapture when first I read The mosque my heart began to dread Into the Thakur's abode I fled Where a thousand conches sing Every moment love's a new surge of spring When the ways of love-rapture I gained Differences of me…Read more Every Moment Love’s A New Surge Of Spring
Means of insight…
Means of insight have now come unto you from your Sustainer [through this divine writ]. Whoever, therefore, chooses to see, does so for his own good; and whoever chooses to remain blind, does so to his own hurt. And [say unto the blind of heart]: "I am not your keeper." And thus do We give…Read more Means of insight…
The Writing On The Wall
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives,…Read more The Writing On The Wall
The Two Goals of Justice and Mercy
Shaykh Abu Muntasir speaking about justice and mercy at the recent JIMAS Conference
An Online Game With The Creator
By Rav Michael Laitman As we examine the universe, we see that nature together with our world are concealed from us. We are revealing the world over the course of thousands of years, from generation to generation, and we are becoming more familiar with it. The Creator is the common force of nature, and this is…Read more An Online Game With The Creator
Imam Ali’s Sermon about Selfish and Ignorant Mullahs?
Sermon 17, Nahjul Balagha (Peak of Eloquence), Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib, translated by Sayed Ali Reza About those who sit for dispensation of justice among people but are not fit for it. Among (1) all the people the most detested before God are two persons. One is he who is devoted to his self.…Read more Imam Ali’s Sermon about Selfish and Ignorant Mullahs?
4thought.tv : Can Jews and Muslims ever find peace?
Paul Salahuddin Armstrong, Co-Director of the Association of British Muslims, speaking about Judaism and Islam on Channel 4's 4thought.tv on Jan 2. 2011
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