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 a child, the story of the saint la...

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 message wrote: ...

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 about all flowering... It is in...

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 tenden...

The month of Rajab is the month of Istighfar. The literal meaning of ‘Istighfar’ in Arabic is:
“to empty the heart of all its darkness, in order to receive the light.”

The common translation used for ‘Istighfar’ nowadays is “the seeking of forgiveness.”

Both of course are related. Seeking forgiveness i...