Eboo Patel

Eboo Patel

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Eboo Patel is founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based international nonprofit that promotes interfaith cooperation. His blog, The Faith Divide, explores what drives faiths apart and what brings them together. He is the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation. An American Muslim of Indian heritage, Eboo has a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship. He is on the Religious Advisory Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee of the Aga Khan Foundation and the Advisory Board of Duke University's Islamic Studies Center. Eboo is an Ashoka Fellow, part of a select network of social entrepreneurs with ideas that could change the world. Close.

Eboo Patel

THE FAITH DIVIDE

Eboo Patel is founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based international nonprofit that promotes interfaith cooperation. His blog, The Faith Divide, explores what drives faiths apart and what brings them together. more »

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Why I Try to Serve God and Others

The message is simple, the path is plain: serve others. It is what we were created for.

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Shari,
your post from August 21, 2007 4:06PM is foolish.
Eboo I researched is a Muslim name. Patel, is a social standing in Indian state of Gujurat. Nowhere I found (in my quick research) that he or his forefathers were converts. Even if they were what's the big deal? Are you envious? Atleast in my findings you hindus even pray to a Rat and coconuts! Come on ignorant fool come out of that Radical Hindu shell and make the future for you and your kids better. This guy has the balls to do it! You know what the price for Crude is today? Almost $115.00! In a few months it will be $150 and you will pay $6/Gal in the USA. If you get my gist of crude then you know what it means as in "future"! Power is Military and Economical
If you dont have a strong enonomy then the military might is useless. Encourage people like him not for you - you biggotted fool but for your kids future.
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Hikmet M.:

This has been my recent epiphany. I truly believe that we are here on this earth to be of service to Humanity--but nothing more. Therein lies the very means of worship and surrender to God, Almighty. As one accepts the limitations and powers that he/she is endowed, and truly appreciate the manifest of God's glory in his/her very creations, one becomes more inclined towards goodness and Mercy.
Such a beautiful posting.

Hikmet M.:

This has been my recent epiphany. I truly believe that we are here on this earth to be of service to Humanity--but nothing more. Therein lies the very means of worship and surrender to God, Almighty. As one accepts the limitations and powers that he/she is endowed, and truly appreciate the manifest of God's glory in his/her very creations, one becomes more inclined towards goodness and Mercy.
Such a beautiful posting.

The Aga Khan Foundation????:

If youre Ismaili, you are not Muslim. Scholars like Shaikh Hamza Yusuf have confirmed this.

my question has to do with your accreditations summary. You are on the National Committee of the Aga Khan Foundation? Why would you represent a man who proclaims he is God incarnated to millions of people? Why you take funds or a prestigious title from a man who several million people bow down to, and who has created a prayer for them that includes seeking help from him? Why would you associate yourself with a man who has french diplomatic status (why??), british, and swiss citizenship and a mass of brown people bowing to him?
Why on earth would you have anything to do with someone who's grandfather's commited treason and helped the British Imperialistis powers bring down the Ottoman Empire and the divide Muslim India?
Why would you have the name of a man who gives microcredit to poor individuals and takes interest from them? The Aga Khan's "philanthropy"in Afghanistan: 5 star Serena Hotels so the warlords and foreigner can be comfortable and buying up all the telecommunications towers in the country so he and hence The West controls the countries entire ability to communicate.

Would you use the name of someone who decided you were not good enough but that he would rexplain your writings? Then why use the name of someone who has done this to God and claims Divine powers in a secret religion he made up???
If youre Ismaili, you are not Muslim. Scholars like Shaikh Hamza Yusuf have confirmed this.

victoria:

wow-

mr patel- you are so strongly on the right track, and such a comfort to some of us to know that you're out there doing your best-
thank you brother and may ALLAH bless you as you deserve-

as i try to gear up for ramadan (it's a long process for me) i am heartened and glad to share this planet with people like mr patel-

hes the soul of tolerance and gentility-
possibly shari thinks all indians are hindus-
it doesnt matter shari- it really doesnt

mr patel does interfaith work with christians and jewish people and muslims and hindus and any who respond to his program to promote peace and understanding and real work and action

i dont think anyone bothered to read his link, too bad- its really worth it.

peace

Are you KIDDING?!:

I'm just making the point regarding Shari's rudeness and presumtion. See where it can lead one?

Anonymous:

"Shari looks and sounds like a stripper name"

OK AYKM. Now you've really done it. Lambchop is gonna be very very mad at you.. now get back to playing your computer game before you upset somebody else.

Are you KIDDING?!:

Nothing like an ignorance/rudeness cocktail!

Since Shari looks and sounds like a stripper name, you should do yourself a favor and invest that lap dance money in a college education so you can move out of the trailer park.

Shari:

Mr. Patel, your name sounds more like a Hindu name. Your forefathers were probably a convert to Islam from Hinduism, most probably because they did not want to pay the brutal Mughal/Muslim rulers of India the extra tax (that was imposed only on non-Muslims).
It would be wiser of you to convert back to Hinduism. We may have potentially one less violent exremist.

Nahool :

uh oh -chris is about to be offended again. don't look, chris:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dPb1bF-s4M&mode=related&search=

Jose:

The ability and motivation to serve others is there because we are all humans. People across many relgions serve others.
But only in one religion-Islam- are the humans motivated to kill others (and themselves) on almost daily basis worldwide.

gefoojet:

It appears that some of us should be careful about what we've been smoking before posting our messages.

I wonder what Islamic message of mercy and inspiration for humanity Mr. Patel finds in the following quotation from the Koran:

"The unbelievers shall have garments of fire fitted unto them; boiling water shall be poured on their heads; their bowels shall be dissolved thereby, and also their skins; and they shall be beaten with maces of iron."

How uplifting!

Chris:

To Nahool. Please don't post offensive videos on a forum such as this, where people attempt to come to read and learn about different religions by people in the religious community. I thought the original essay was great, and explains much about why a young man would sacrifice money and time to try and help others, a habit many Americans would do well to remember.

If you're insinuating...I don't know, or don't care what you're insinuating, because frankly, I don't think you know either. Just expressing a childish hate. Please stop sullying an otherwise intelligent and informative forum.

Stepping off my soapbox...goodbye.

Jon Matthew:

1 John 4: 19We love because he first loved us.

"Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength." Mother Teresa

Peacetroll:

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The above is a MUST READ for anyone who wants to know truth.

Nahool :

my favorite story is the one about the woman who let the cat die:

Here's a retelling from Palestian Children's TV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ExZVimjST8

victoria:

brother patel- what a much needed (for me) link.

i read your post this morning and then followed the link- and there was nothing i could possibly add to that-
so i didnt.

for about 3 years ive had one sentence on my bedroom wall-
VERILY MY MERCY HAS OVERCOME MY ANGER

and i always tell anyone who will listen that my favorite story is the one about the woman who let the cat die and the one who gave water to the dog.

i actually did a quick search, and the first link was one of my posts from this site!

thanks brother for lifting my day and well being

peace and peace
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Paganplace:

Ok, Thomas ...whatever that was... Are you trying to say the columnist is 'evil' anyway, except for people praying for your God not to lead them into temptation?

This is where I'm not going to even try to figure out your thinking. :)

Thomas Baum:

The passage in scripture that is referred to as The Lord's Prayer and also the Our Father: Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come, thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven, give us this day our daily Bread, forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one. OUR FATHER, as in the Father of the entire human race considering that not only did He create everyone but also everything. WHO ART IN HEAVEN, not only is He in Heaven but He is also putting the finishing touches on the Heavenly Jerusalem not to be confused with the New Jerusalem which is going to go down the tubes just like the Old Jerusalem only more so. HALLOWED BE THY NAME, actually God is Pure Love but from so many of the posts that call themselves christians, you would never know. THY KINGDOM COME, God's Kingdom which will be a Kingdom of Pure Love and it is for all of His children which is ALL OF HUMANITY. THY WILL BE DONE, Like it says in many places in the bible, it is God's Will that ALL BE SAVED, also if all that someone calling themself a christian, cares about is going to the "good place" , how christian is that, considering that on the cross Jesus said, "Father forgive them", there is not an asterick after them, them means ALL OF HUMANITY, we have all done wrong at least I have. ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN, as it says even the forces of evil, satan and his cohorts, are working toward the Will of God even if inadvertantly, besides being a liar and a thief, the deceiver is also a loser. GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD, this refers not only to that which sustains us physically but also the Eucharist which is the BREAD OF LIFE. FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST US, this is a divine equation, pure and simple, Jesus told us as much. AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION, satan is the tempter and like it says when we fall which we all seem to do at times at least I have we can ask for forgiveness, we can go directly to God for forgiveness, the curtain in front of the Holy of Holies has been torn in two, yes the one that so many people are trying to sew back together. BUT DELIVER US FROM THE EVIL ONE, yes satan and his cohorts are real and in God's Plan, All of Humanity will be delivered from all evil that is why we are to be willing and active participants in God's Plan whatever we may have been called or chosen to do. Sincerely, Thomas Paul Moses Baum.

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