“Windows To Spirituality”
Death As Personification This article covers Death As Personification. Death, due to its prominent place in human culture, is frequently imagined as a personified force, also known as the Grim Reaper. In some mythologies, the Grim Reaper causes the victim’s death by coming to collect that person. In turn, people in some stories try to...
The Supreme Transaction A parable to understand the meaning of (The Supreme Transaction) selling one’s soul to God. If you wish to understand how profitable a transaction, how honorable a rank it is, to sell one’s soul and property to God, and to be His slave and His soldier, listen...
What Is Afterlife? The afterlife (life after death) is the belief that the essential part of an individual’s identity or the stream of consciousness continues after the death of the physical body. According to various ideas about the afterlife, the essential aspect of the individual that lives on after death may...
Near-death Studies Near-death studies is a field of psychology and psychiatry that studies the physiology, phenomenology and after-effects of the near-death experience (NDE). The field was originally associated with a distinct group of North American researchers that followed up on the initial work of Raymond Moody, and who later established the International Association for Near-death Studies (IANDS) and the Journal of Near-Death Studies....
The Perfect Happiness In Life This article covers how to find The Perfect Happiness In Life. O my heedless self! If you would like to understand to some degree the aim of your life and its nature, its apparent form and meaning, and the perfect happiness in your life, then...
The Divine Purpose For The Creation Of Man This article covers The Divine Purpose For The Creation Of Man. A parable to understand Divine purposes behind the creation of man and the universe and the enjoining of the five daily prayers: Once, there was a king. He had a vast...
Animal Worship Animal worship (or zoolatry) is rituals involving animals, such as the glorification of animal deities or animal sacrifice. When a god is respected or worshipped by means of a representative animal, an animal cult is formed (Teeter et al., 2002, p. 355). Animal cults may be classified according to their outward form or according...
Faith Healing Faith healing is the practice of prayer and gestures (such as laying on of hands) that are believed by some to elicit divine intervention in spiritual and physical healing, especially the Christian practice. Believers assert that the healing of disease and disability can be brought about by religious faith through prayer...
A Booklet For A Sick “A Booklet For A Sick” treatise consists of Twenty-Five Remedies. It was written as a salve, a solace, and a prescription for the sick, and as a visit to the sick and a wish for their speedy recovery. Warning and Apology This immaterial prescription was...
Why Is The Family So Important To Muslims? This article covers the answer to the question: “Why Is The Family So Important To Muslims?“ The family is the foundation of Islamic society. The peace and security offered by a stable family unit is greatly valued and seen as essential for...
What Is A Dream? A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. The content and purpose of dreams are not fully understood, although they have been a topic of scientific, philosophical and religious interest throughout...
What Is Hell? In religion and folklore, Hell is an afterlife location, sometimes a place of torment and punishment. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as eternal destinations while religions with a cyclic history often depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations. Typically these traditions locate hell in...
Archangel Azrael Archangel Azrael (עזראל) is an archangel in the Abrahamic religions. He is often identified with the Angel of Destruction and Renewal of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew name translates to “Angel of God“, “Help from God”, or “One Whom God Helps”. Azrael is the spelling of the Chambers Dictionary. The Qur’an refers...
Test And Trial For Man The world is an arena of test and trial for man. He has been sent here to acquire the state appropriate for the other life. This is not easy. Like a tailor who, in order to make a suit fit for his customer, cuts a...
What is a Family? In the context of human society, a family is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth), affinity as implied by the etymology of the English word “family” or some combination of these the parent would be the daughter child they become the double of the...
20 Ways To Renew Yourself This article covers 20 ways to renew yourself. There is nothing more exciting than living a life of constant self-renewal. Self-renewal is the attention you give towards ensuring that your life is forward-moving, with every step bringing you closer to who you really are. It...
Overcoming Personal And Spiritual Inner Exhaustion This article covers “Overcoming Personal and Spiritual Inner Exhaustion: The Value of Rest and Renewal“. Working harder and faster, staying ahead of life, moving into the future at the speed of light. Does this describe your daily life? Are you forgetting to take time...
Attachment To Life Attachment to this life leads to the diminishing of human faculties, to inward decay until man’s spirit falls into a most wretched state. The enjoyment of luxurious living paralyses such feelings as exalt man, and is a blow to resolution and will-power. Clinging to luxuries is an...
The Importance Of Breast-Feeding Breast-feeding is extremely important for the mother’s own health, as well as that of her baby. The propaganda in the sixties and seventies of some materialistic physicians in cahoots with baby-food manufacturers tried to throw doubt on the value of breast-feeding and to present it, especially...
Water For Life The human being’s biological need for water is modest. A dozen or so cupfuls a day are all that are required for survival. There are about 1,360 million cubic kilometres of water on the earth. If all the water, on the planet; from oceans, lakes, rivers, the...
