transfixed by screens glowing white flashing text immediate gratification, see who’s next beep ping sounds of bells check the vacant dream don’t look around at real sounds, be who’s next ringing, singing, zinging like pin ball. real fixation, woops almost tripped, he’s who’s next isolated heads in virtual clouds look around, can’t, new text — she’s who’s next who is god anyway, chasing golden dreams tap magic buttons it’s mine, free who’s next

I was suddenly captivated this morning by an ayat in the Surah Ihsan that refers to the mystical drink of Kafur; a drink from the purest of springs infused with a sweet fragrant herb such that the subtle smell wafts beautiful even before the water is sipped. “…the righteous will…

An Allegory… “O [humankind], indeed we have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is knowing and acquainted.” Qur’an 49:13 …

For Palestine… Dark gray metal and bullet holes and you can’t walk on the streets, the wailing and moaning and the mothers cries, the soldiers laughter as they smoke another cigarette. And the rape and the slaughter just another day in a genocide. And why does the mournful mother cry? Her young son has too much bravado, and it…

I have been to the mountaintop… Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last speech The winter was long, dark, and dreary lasting well into the beginning of the Spring months. This led to a strong yearning in the heart for warmth and light as the chill fell over the land with the…

the greater jihad — is the battle humans have with their egos (arabic — nafs); it is to transform into the highest level or spiritual potential that a human can attain. As the Qur’an states, to climb the “crooked path” or the more difficult path, is like hiking switchbacks up…

“The establishment of the State of Israel, as yet the only visible positive result of the holocaust falls into the same category. Taken together, they somehow represent two sides of a single vast historical event.” The Messianic Idea in Judaism, Gershom Scholem (p. 311) As I sit here reading this…

little children even they know some sort of crazy hierarchy when being rich is some sort of goodness value of a human becomes the value of wealth but less likely to give than a poor person some sort of crazy you worship the one that steps on you oppresses you ignores you…

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one. ~ Rumi It’s hate it’s love it is all the same looking down looking up neither the East nor the West but both Jerusalem or…