“Windows To Spirituality”
Called To Greatness: The Virtue Of Magnanimity The virtue of magnanimity may impel a good man to go beyond his daily obligations and make more sacrifices in his daily life for the sake of others. When faced with choices in life, do you tend to pursue what is most noble...
Anger And Virtue For some readers of the Gospels, Jesus might appear to be offering two contradictory messages about anger. On the one hand, in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus compares the punishment for anger with the judgment facing murderers: “You have heard that it was said to the...
Aiming High: How To Grow In Virtue This article covers How To Grow In Virtue. If we are aiming to live virtuously in our marriages, families, and friendships, we need much more than sporadic good deeds or occasional acts of kindness when we happen to be in a good mood....
Spirits Devoted To God This article explains the life of Spirits Devoted To God. The most remarkable feature of those who have devoted themselves to the bestowal of God’s consent and to the ideal of loving and being loved by Him is that they never expect anything— material or spiritual—in...
The Portrait Of People Of Heart With their vision, faith, and deeds, people of heart are integrated heroes of both spiritualism and meaning. Their profundity relies not on their knowledge or acquisitions, but on the richness of their hearts, the pureness of their souls and their closeness to God. They...
Bediüzzaman Said Nursi’s Short Biography This article covers Bediüzzaman Said Nursi’s Short Biography. Said Nursi, also widely known as Bediuzzaman (the Wonder of the Age) was born in 1877 in eastern Turkey. Bediuzzaman displayed extraordinary intelligence and ability to learn from an early age, completing the normal course of religious...
Bediüzzaman’s Accomplishments Bediuzzaman had immersed himself in the Holy Book, searching for a way tolerate its truths to modern man. In Barla in his isolation he began to write treatises explaining and proving these truths, for now the Holy Book itself and its truths were under direct attack. The first...
Mevlânâ Celâleddin Mehmed Rumi Mevlânâ Celâleddin Mehmed Rumi was born in Afghanistan (which was the Persian city of Balkh) in 1207. Loosely translated, Jalal means “majesty”, Din means “religion”, and Rumi means “the Roman”, which means “Majesty of Religion”. The Anatolian region in Turkey that Rumi died in was then...
Mawlavi Order The discipline of Mawlavi Order (Mevlevi Order) was established by Mevlevi’s son Sultan Veled, his disciple Chalabi Husameddin, and his grandson Ulu Arif Chalabi in order to pass on his teachings to future generations. Ever since then, the “order” has been presided over by a Makam Chalabi (Chief...
Who Is Confucius? Confucius was born around the year 551 BC in China, in a very humble environment. It is said that he was orphaned as a small boy, since there is no records of his parents. While he was growing up China was in despair with warfare and corruption...
M. Fethullah Gülen A BRIEF HISTORY A man for all seasons, M. Fethullah Gülen was born in tiny village of Korucuk, in Erzurum Province, Eastern Turkey, in November 1938. His family tree is traced to a noble lineage. He comes from a long line of learned scholars. Born with an...
Jalaladdin al – Rumi Rumi was born in the city of Balkh in 1207, at a time when all of Asia was suffering from social, political, and military problems. His father, Muhammad Bahauddin al-Siddiqi, was part of the tenth generation of the descendants of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, the first caliph...
The People Of Guidance Do “The People of Guidance” Possess Some Weakness, or Do They Possess Some Truth? The successes the people of misguidance have achieved and the power they demonstrate and their victories over the people of guidance show that they rely on some power and truth. That means...
Guidance What Does Guidance Mean, And How Can One Guide Someone Else? Guidance is a light that God kindles in those people who use their free will in the way of belief. Only God can guide. Many Qur’anic verses state this fact clearly. For example: If God willed, He could...
Code Of Ethics For Spiritual Guides This article covers Code Of Ethics For Spiritual Guides. Preamble: People have long sought to enrich their lives and to awaken to their full natures through spiritual practices including prayer, meditation, mind-body disciplines, service, ritual, community liturgy, holy-day and seasonal observances, and rites of...
The Virtue Of Fortitude The Virtue of fortitude binds the will firmly to the good of reason in the face of the greatest evils, and the most fearful of all bodily evils is death. The emotions have an innate need to be guided by reason. An emotionally healthy life is...
Fortitude Fortitude as one of the gifts from the Holy Ghost is a supernatural virtue, and passes beyond the Aristotelian range. (1) Manliness is etymologically what is meant by the Latin word virtus and by the Greek andreia, with which we may compare arete (virtue), aristos (best), and aner (man)....
Forgiving The Unforgivable This article covers the virtue of forgiveness. Mike and Kathie Clarey suffered the worst trauma any parent can endure. Their beloved 11-year-old daughter was brutally murdered. In the days that followed, the Clareys were numb with grief. Yet in the midst of their pain, they experienced God’s...
What Is Forgiveness? Forgiveness is the intentional and voluntary process by which a victim undergoes a change in feelings and attitude regarding an offense, lets go of negative emotions such as vengefulness, forswears recompense from or punishment of the offender, however legally or morally justified it might be, and with an increased ability to...
Forgiveness Forgiveness cannot be separated from virtue, just as virtue cannot be separated from forgiveness. Men and women are creatures with faults as well as exceptional qualities. No other living creature carries such inborn opposites. Only humanity has the qualities that allow its individuals to fly in the firmaments of...
