In previous blog posts I wrote about Al Habib Abu Bakr Almashhur (1, 2). His significant modern contribution to Islamic thought was his revisiting of the famous hadith by Sayyidna Omar (3), the 2nd Khalifa of Islam and a man whose humbleness (from the Sunni perspective) stopped him from narrating hardly any Ahadith at all. […]
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ACIM’s greatness is in it’s non-dualistic principle so deeply intertwined in every line. To love yourself you forgive another or yourself. To love another you forgive yourself or another. It’s trendy nowadays to speak of self love but no one seems to understand the deeper method of attaining it. No one but ACIM of course.
Over the years I’ve enjoyed the company of elders. It just so happens that in my family we were ‘top heavy’. We had more elders raising children than children around. This infused my teenage years with a ton of unconditional love from wisdom keepers around me. It also meant I got to see death early
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So this Hadith is well known in Sufi circles of Islam. Other Muslim groups dispute it’s accuracy and it’s sanad (sources). I wanted to highlight it as I am rereading The Disappearance of the Universe with the purpose of revisiting it with a Muslim lens. On page 9 Gary tells Arten and Pursah that, “My
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n So you may have wandered on to this site and thought, can this site be truly helpful for me? I thought I would attempt to help answer that question. nn So there are three people I see read the words on my site. You could be a Courser curious about the Muslim world, if
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When I met David, I didn’t know it at the time, he was already sick. He did this thing he was known for. He looked at me with all of him present. He took everyone he met in. He locked eyes with us. Meeting him was a memorable moment. Sometimes you don’t know or remember
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As a Course student I don’t find this concept ‘easy’ or take it ‘lightly’ (though we shouldn’t ever forget to laugh). 1. There is no order of difficulty in miracles.² One is not “harder” or “bigger” than another.³ They are all the same.⁴ All expressions of love are maximal. (ACIM, T-1.I.1:1-4) Ken Wapnick reminds us
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I quoted a verse from the Quran in my title: مرج البحرين يلتقيان. I kept hearing it ring through me as I wrote this post. The Verse is “He merged the two waters together where they met” verse 19 from Surat Al Rahman (1). I have always taken the Quran symbolically with it’s metaphors of
I never contacted Al Habib Abu Bakr while he was alive. The Course only got translated into Arabic less then a year before his own death (actually I struggled to find a link on acim’s site when I wrote this article with an arabic copy listed. This is all I found(1) and without a translation
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This section of our blog posts wouldn’t be possible without the work of AlHabib Abu Bakr Al Mashhur. Al Habib Abu Bakr just recently passed away this summer. His work was novel within the Muslim world, and is worthy of a closer study. Before surrendering to The Course (but after reading the Disappearance of the
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