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Each faction rejoicing
”But the people divided their religion among them into sects – each faction, in what it has, rejoicing.” (23:53) This verse points to the fact that each religion and each of its sects rejoice in what they have, and keep the Way unto God divided and fragmented because of that. While in truth, all sects…
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Holy Spirit
All that Spirit enters is Holy, and Spirit enters Everywhere. Spirit simply Is, just like We Are. Each have their own unique value and relationship to Spirit. Thus, any notions of a Universal Sense of Holy and Unholy that Divides People is but wrongful religious inventions of Which God is not part of. All of…
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Colonization versus Conquests
I once asked an AI chatbot why, when it is about Europeans who seized new lands, it’s called “colonization”, but when others did the same – for example Arabs and Muslims – it is called “conquests”. The first term is very condemning while the second is much more forgiving. It basically answered something like “the…
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Revelation does not cease
There is a verse about God’s oneness in the Quran, painted by how it’s impossible for a servant to have two masters. Yet, in many instances throughout the Quran, God is constantly mentioned together with the prophet Muhammad (الله ورسوله). So to me, that verse about a servant having two masters serves an important point; when…
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Your and mine experience
“How can you understand oppression if you’re not oppressed?” There is something called logic, imagination, inquiry, reason, understanding, conclusion, comparison, association, empathy, deduction, relating among many other things. We are all human and share the human experience. We all live in the same world. You don’t need to understand something fully to understand the essence…
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The heart of diversity
How can diversity have any meaning, if diversity of thought is rejected? How can diversity in people’s external worlds be of any value, if diversity in their inner worlds is banished? The former is superficial while the latter is essential (both literally and figuratively). Our inner worlds are our most intimate parts. How can one…
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Diversity of thought
A person voiced that “this generation is all about diversity, except diversity of thought”. This is such an important statement. No diversity matters if there is no diversity of thought, because it’s by thought that we perceive, discern, categorize and come to an understanding of them and anything else. Allowing the very existence of that…
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Hold my hand
People get called various personal attacks by one end of the political spectrum when they are, for example, being a certain skin color and not caring about or agreeing with certain issues related to that skin color. Or for being part of one group and caring about another. But isn’t caring about and acknowledging the…
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Prayer
You never gave up on me, and so I will never give up on You. You were there with me in my darkest moment. You were there with me when I was at my wits end, when I didn’t know in from out. You were there when no one else was. You brought clarity to…
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Movie review: Equilibrium
I watched the 2002 movie Equilibrium some years ago, and society is sadly and worryingly turning more and more like it. Everything must be perfectly measured, in place and “accurate”. No divergence. No feeling. No objection. No colors and no actual life. (Reminds me of another movie, The Giver from 2014.) Here are just a…
The Searcher Who Wants to Give 