Man’s Best Friend? The Islamic View on Dogs. http://t.co/40Nr24hHPF via @suhaibwebbsite
— Aasem Bakhshi (@aasembakhshi) October 11, 2014
Humans consider themselves unique, so they've rooted their whole theory of existence on their uniqueness. "One" is their unit of "measure" — but its not. All social systems we've put into place are a mere sketch: "one plus one equals two", that's all we've learned, but one plus one has never equaled two — there are in fact no numbers and no letters, we've codified our existence to bring it down to human size, to make it comprehensible, we've created a scale so we can forget its unfathomable scale.
During his lifetime, Jesus himself didn't call himself God and didn't consider himself God, and ... none of his disciples had any inkling at all that he was God. ...
You do find Jesus calling himself God in the Gospel of John, or the last Gospel. Jesus says things like, "Before Abraham was, I am." And, "I and the Father are one," and, "If you've seen me, you've seen the Father." These are all statements you find only in the Gospel of John, and that's striking because we have earlier gospels and we have the writings of Paul, and in none of them is there any indication that Jesus said such thing...
But if you think about it for a second, it makes sense that the empty tomb wouldn't make anybody believe. If you put somebody in a tomb and three days later you go back and the body's not in the tomb, your first thought isn't, "Oh, he's been exalted to heaven and made the son of God." Your first thought is, "Somebody stole the body." Or, "Somebody moved the body." Or, "Hey, I'm at the wrong tomb." You don't think he's been exalted to heaven. In the New Testament it's striking that in the Gospels the empty tomb leads to confusion but it doesn't lead to belief. What leads to belief is that some of the followers of Jesus have visions of him afterward.Read complete article over here.
"He believed in God, that it was his conviction that no man was so guilty that God would not forgive him, but in order for that to happen a man must repent and in doing so become like a child whose heart is open and ready to embrace all"
"Where do you think love is? Think about the person you love the most and you are A and the other person is B. Which graph signifies love? It is (I believe) is the graph on the right top because if you are looking for a perfect relationship, there is no such thing and in fact it is the wrong thing to look for. You are looking for yourself in the other person … it is noisy, there is tension but hopefully the relationship is positively inclined."
"...human love they seek was not the destination. Some form of that human love, can be a gift. It can be a means. But the moment you make it the End, you will fall ... You will give your life to reaching a ‘destination’ of worldly perfection that does not exist."
"The lesson you’re taught is that the story ends at the wedding, and then that’s when Jennah (paradise) begins. That’s when you’ll be saved and completed and everything that was once broken will be fixed. The only problem is, that’s not where the story ends. That’s where it begins. That’s where the building starts: the building of a life, the building of your character, the building of sabr, patience, perseverance, and sacrifice. The building of selflessness. The building of love."
"If it is love that you seek, seek it through God. Every other stream, not based in His love, poisons the one who drinks from it...when you do love, you will give to the creation—not for what you can get in return from them. You will love and you will give, but you will be sufficed from Him."This is Love by Yasmin Mogahed
"What separates memorization from learning is a sense of meaning. When you memorize a fact, it's arbitrary, interchangeable--it makes no difference to you whether sine of π/2 is one, zero, or a million. But when you learn a fact, it's bound to others by a web of logic. It could be no other way."
When Memorization Gets in the Way of Learning by Ben Orlin.
Whoever stands up (in worship) in the nights preceding the two Eids expecting rewards from his Lord, his heart will not die when the other hearts will die. (Ibn Majah)
