Tag: Ramadan
Ramadan Diary 1434/2013 Week 3 (part 2)
Day 18 – July 26, 2013 Prayer from Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him and his family) for the 18th day of Ramadan: O Allah keep me awake, in this month, to find and get the blessings of its mor... Read More
Ramadan Diary 1434/2013 Week 3 (part 1)
One of the things Muslims do during Ramadan is try to read the entire Qur’an over the course of the month. Each night, we try to read a juz’, or section of the Qur’an. As I entered week 3 of Ram... Read More
Who is a Muslim? Tension at an Interfaith Ramadan Gathering
I helped my Muslim friends break the Ramadan fast at the home of Abdel, an Indian scholar of classical Islam who works at the Great Mosque in Rome to facilitate interfaith dialogue and to ameliorate I... Read More
Ramadan Diary 1434/2013 Week 2
Day 8 – Tuesday, July 16, 2013 As I go over my ending from the last week, I realize how depressing it sounds. While it was not meant, I suppose it is because when one realizes how human-h... Read More
Seeds of Compassion: The Bodhi Tree, Ramadan, and Survival of the Kindest.
Earlier this month, while many people around the world were celebrating the birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the man whose immeasurable compassion has touched the world, a few were planting bo... Read More
Ramadan Diary 1434/2013 Week 1
Preface For the last couple of years I’ve been meaning to keep a Ramadan journal of spiritual reflections. It seemed like a natural outgrowth of the “tweeting the Qur’an” initiative. It’s al... Read More
Fasting for Ramadan As A Catholic
I spend a few days each year fasting during Ramadan. I am not a Muslim. I am a Catholic, so fasting for me normally happens during Lent. This non-Catholic observance is not meant to offend Muslims, or... Read More
Why I Stopped Observing Ramadan: A Unitarian Universalist’s Search for Spiritual Practice
As we enter the second week of Ramadan, hundreds of millions of Muslims around the world continue to fast as a prescribed spiritual practice in the Islamic faith tradition. Last year, as a part of an ... Read More- 2 of 2
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