Aylan loves Allah and Allah loves Aylan! A true “salah”, being that the literal meaning of “salah” is connection. What a deep and true prayer indeed. 

This spontaneous, natural and beautiful prayer reminds me of a story my grandmother used to tell me when I was...

When I entered our spiritual center a few days ago, after a Growing in Love session I wasn’t able to attend, my attention was caught immediately by a message written by one of the children on our whiteboard. My eyes welled with tears, and a deep sense of gratitude filled my heart.The...

Rabi' al-Awwal literally translates to “the first spring” or rather “the original spring”: the spring that preceded all other springs, the one that became the source of all springs, or the source that became the source of all sources, the flowering season that brought...

The memory of Karbala should be approached as a lesson for us, not just as a story that makes us choose sides. Studying these historical events can teach us a lot about the human condition, and therefore about ourselves.

As human beings, we all come from the same soul and possess the different...

The Islam I like to call "conventional" is in a "hamd" crisis today. Yet the opening of the Qur'an, this invitation to enter the dimension of Revelation, begins with "Al-hamd"... and the same is true of the fundamental ritual of the five daily meditations.

"Hamd" describes a state of deep...