Ghost Dance The Ghost Dance (Nanissáanah, also called the Ghost Dance of 1890) was a new religious movement incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems. According to the teachings of the Northern Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka (renamed Jack Wilson), proper practice of the dance would reunite the living with spirits of the dead, bring the spirits to fight on...
Islam And The Family This article covers Islam And The Family. While the warp of society is the individual person and the woof is social order, the unit of the design is the family. Families in which mutual understanding, sincerity and tenderness reign, form details of a harmonious pattern. But...
Prophet Isaiah Isaiah was the 8th-century BC Jewish prophet for whom the Book of Isaiah is named. Within the text of the Book of Isaiah, Isaiah himself is referred to as “the prophet”, but the exact relationship between the Book of Isaiah and any such historical Isaiah is complicated. The traditional view is that...
The Reality Of The Daily Prescribed Prayers Is A Kind Of Ascension The reality of the daily prescribed prayers, which is, in fact, a kind of Ascension, is like the soldier in the previous comparison being admitted to the royal Presence as a pure favor. So, too, your being admitted...
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...
Story Of Isaiah Among the prophets between David and Zachariah is Isaiah, son of Amisiah. Isaiah appeared before Zachariah and John the Baptist. He is among those who prophesied about Jesus and Muhammad. The king during his time was called Hezekiah (Hazkia). He listened and was obedient to Isaiah in...
How Did People Know Him? This article covers the Perspectives of Jesus in The Bible. So if the followers of Jesus considered God to be their “Father,” then how did they regard Jesus? To answer this let us read together: “And when he would have put him to death, he...
Kahlil Gibran Gibran Khalil Gibran (جبران خليل جبران, Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān, or Jibrān Khalīl Jibrān, January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, also considered a philosopher although he himself rejected this title. He is best known as the...