“Windows To Spirituality”
Generations With No Ideals It is possible for a people to remain active only if they are given lofty ideals. When they are left with no ideals or aims, they become reduced to the condition of animated corpses showing no signs of distinctively human life. All the living things in...
The Spirit Of Youth This article covers The Spirit of Youth. A community maintains its liveliness through the spirit of its young, and flourishes through it. When a community loses this spirit, it fades and withers away, like a flower whose veins have been cut, and it is finally crushed...
Christian Views On Marriage This article covers Christian Views On Marriage. Marriage is the legally or formally recognized intimate and complementing union of two people as spousal partners in a personal relationship (historically and in most jurisdictions specifically a union between a man and a woman). The basic elements of...
The Highest Aim Of Creation Be certain of this, that the highest aim of creation and its most important result are belief in God. The most exalted rank in humanity and its highest degree are the knowledge of God (Ma’rifa (Knowledge of God)) contained within belief in God. The most...
Aristotelian Ethics Aristotelian Ethics emphasized that virtue is practical, and its purpose is to become good, not merely to know. Aristotle also claims that the right course of action depends upon the details of a particular situation, rather than being generated merely by applying a law. The type of wisdom...
What Is The Meaning Of Life? The meaning of life, or the answer to the question: “What is the meaning of life?”, pertains to the significance of living or existence in general. Many other related questions include: “Why are we here?”, “What is life all about?”, or “What is the purpose...
The Meaning Of Life This article covers the answer to the question: “What is the meaning of life?” Are all of life’s hardships worth enduring? The answer depends on what our goal is in living. In fact, understanding the purpose of life is a slow and absorbing process. We sense its...
Seven Steps To Happiness The pursuance of happiness is a luxury in the modern world. We need to reduce the number of expectations in our lives and be content with what we have. When the chips are down, we often hear our friends and well-wishers telling us, “Don’t worry, be...
Social Relationships This article covers Social Relationships. Although we humans are definitely individual souls, unlike social animals such as ants, bees, and herds, we are also at least as social as any other creatures. In the later stages of evolution hominids adapted by cooperating with each other as families and...
A True Consolation For Incarcerated This article is a true consolation for incarcerated. Those in prison are in great need of the true consolation of the Pearls of Wisdom. Particularly those who having suffered the blows of youth are passing their young, sweet lives in prison; they need the Pearls...
Responsibilities Of The Children To Their Parent This article covers Responsibilities Of The Children To Their Parent. Do We Have To Take Responsibility For Our Parents When They Get Elderly? “Whether one or both of them attain old age in your life, say not to them a word of contempt,...
Workplace Bullying Workplace bullying is a persistent pattern of mistreatment from others in the workplace that causes either physical or emotional harm. It can include such tactics as verbal, nonverbal, psychological, physical abuse and humiliation. This type of workplace aggression is particularly difficult because, unlike the typical school bully, workplace...
Work–family Balance In The United States Work–family balance in the United States refers to the specific issues that arise when men and women in the United States attempt to balance their occupational lives with their family lives. This differs from work-life balance: while work-life balance may refer to the health and living...
Work–life Balance Work–life balance is the lack of opposition between work and other life roles. It is the state of equilibrium in which demands of personal life, professional life, and family life are equal. Work–life balance consists of, but it is not limited to, flexible work arrangements that allow employees...
Salik (Initiate) A salik (initiate) is a traveler who follows a way to a goal and makes efforts to meet with God. The way of traveling differs according to the capacity, abilities and gifts with which each individual has been favored. Some are extraordinarily attracted and taken by God Himself...
Dervish Dervish is a word that means poor, destitute one. Even though it is used for the poor and helpless in worldly terms, in Sufi terminology it is used for those who are aware of their poverty and helplessness before God. Although poverty and helplessness in worldly terms are associated...
Another Way Of Journeying And Initiation This article covers Another Way of Journeying and Initiation. Some make spiritual journeys by refining and developing the inner faculties, while others purify the carnal self within, causing it to take certain steps. In both these ways, suffering for certain periods is essential to...
The Distance Between Two Bows Or Nearer This article explains the meaning of The Distance Between Two Bows or Nearer in Sufism. This metaphoric Qur’anic expression concerns God’s Messenger‘s unparalleled nearness to God during his Ascension. From the viewpoint of Sufism, it denotes rising beyond the horizons of Divine acts...
The Universal Man This article describes al-insanu’l-kamil (The Universal Man or The Perfect Man) in Sufism. Also known as the perfect man (al-insanu’l-kamil), the universal man is the brightest mirror of God’s acts, Names, Attributes, and even His Essential Qualities that qualify Him as God. There is a rule that...
Irshad And Murshid (Guidance And the Guide) This article explains the meaning of Irshad and Murshid (Guidance and the Guide) in Sufism. Guidance is defined in different ways, among which are directing to the right path, awakening hearts to the Ultimate Truth, helping feelings and thoughts reach God by removing...
