A Grief and Hope Found Only in Poetry

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If only all of the arts were much more valued in our educational systems and culture. If only we were all poets and true to the goodness, the solidarity of our various religions.
Thank you for printing this article.

Concerned the Christian... made a valid point: There is feasting after sunset every single day after the daytime fast. As a result more meat is sold (because more is eaten during the period of the fast!)during the time of Ramadan than at other times of the year. Not much of a way to contemplate on those who have nothing to eat, with feasting allowed from sunset to sunrise.

Nevertheless, not drinking even water all day is quite a feat. Any charity that may extended to the poor during the period of Ramadan must be appreciated (it stands to reason that merely thinking of the world's poor while indulging in a feast at from sundown to sunrise has nothing to do with charity), if such activity happens to be part of Ramadan.

Victoria,

Hmmm, but you forgot to add, "then we gorge ourselves from Sundown to Sunup". We then sleep most of the day".

And when you are awake and reading the koran, do you skip the militaristic and anti-female passages???? And forget about the "pwtfft" responsible for bringing all this enlightenment in your life???

RAMADAN MUBARAK BROTHER PATEL

ramadan starts tomorrow

the observation of ramadan lasts a full month
muslims fast from sunup to sundown, no water or food, nothing passes our lips for about 14 waking hours every day for a month.

it helps us develop compassion for those who do not have enough to eat- it helps us gain control of our appetites- all appetites, and reminds us of our obligation to others, not to become complacent or too fat and apathetic.

we read the entire qu'ran during this period
and pray together in the evening

peace

Nice to see a picture of Eboo Patel where he actually seems to be smiling.

What if it's neither, JJ.

What if it's peole?

What next?

JJ.

Shut. Up.

You fancy yourself a seer.

Don't you remember?

Unfortunately, the Sufis are not accepted by mainstream Islam and are discriminated against in many Muslim countries, including Pakistan. The central Sufi phiolosophy of accepting other faiths and not believing that Mohammed was the last prophet goes against basic Islamic beliefs. Islam needs to be reformed along Sufi lines.

Thank you, Mr. Patel, for beautifully articulating the highest ideals of all. It is so refreshing to read words not meant to attack, demean, or criticize anyone or anyone's beliefs, but rather to uplift, to give hope, to shine the light on the most important aspects of being a human being on this planet and in this universe.

Thank you!

9/11, we will never forget and we will never forget the operating manual behind these senseless acts.

"I remember no one honked their car horn in Chicago that day."

please, please, eboo..

an incredibly poor comment: as we all remember where car horns were being honked in celebration on this day.

Eboo wrote:
On September 11, 2001, Ya Allah Ya Allah, seemed to be the only thing I could say.

The terrorists also said something similar shortly before crashing those planes and so did Mohammed and his henchmen before massacring the non muslim tribes of arabia.

The Truth of it All:

Fix The Flaws Before It is Too Late:

(For those whose eyes have not seen) A synopsis of the flaws in the foundations of today's contemporary religions:

1. Abraham founder/father of three major religions was probably a mythical character. If he was real, he was at best a combination of at least three men. 1.5 million Conservative Jews and their rabbis have relegated Abraham to the myth pile along with most if not all the OT.

2. Jesus, the illiterate Jewish peasant/carpenter possibly suffering from hallucinations, has been characterized anywhere from the Messiah from Nazareth to a mythical character from mythical Nazareth. Analyses of his life by many contemporary NT scholars (e.g. Professors Crossan, Borg and Fredriksen, On Faith panelists)via the NT and related documents have concluded that only about 30% of Jesus' sayings and ways noted in the NT were authentic. The rest being embellishments (e.g. miracles)/hallucinations made/had by the NT authors to impress various Christian, Jewish and Pagan sects.

The 30% of the NT that is "authentic Jesus" like everything in life was borrowed/plagiarized and/or improved from those who came before. In Jesus' case, it was the ways and sayings of the Babylonians, Greeks, Persians, Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, OT, John the Baptizer and possibly the ways and sayings of traveling Greek Cynics.

3. Mohammed, the "holey not holy hallucinator", also had embellishing/hallucinating/plagiarizing scribal biographers who not only added "angels" and flying chariots to the Koran but also a militaristic agenda to support the plundering and looting of the lands of non-believers.

This agenda continues as shown by the conduct of the seven Muslim doctors in the UK, the 9/11 terrorists, the 24/7 Sunni suicide/roadside/market/mosque bombers , the 24/7 Shiite suicide/roadside/market/mosque bombers , the Bali crazies, the Kenya crazies, the Pakistani koranics, the Palestine suicide bombers/rocketeers, the Lebanese nutcases and the Filipino koranics. And who funds these acts of terror? Islamic Iran, the Third Axis of Evil and also the "Wannabees" of Saudi Arabia.

4. Luther, Calvin, Smith, Henry VIII, Wesley et al, founders of Christian-based religions, also suffered from the belief in/hallucinations of "pretty wingy talking flying fictional thingie" visits and "prophecies" for profits analogous to the myths of Catholicism (resurrections, apparitions, ascensions and immaculate conceptions).

5. Hinduism (from an online Hindu site) - "Hinduism cannot be described as an organized religion. It is not founded by any individual. Hinduism is God centred and therefore one can call Hinduism as founded by God, because the answer to the question ‘Who is behind the eternal principles and who makes them work?’ will have to be ‘Cosmic power, Divine power, God’"
The caste/laborer system and cow worship are problems when saying a fair and rational God founded Hinduism."

6. Buddhism- "Buddhism began in India about 500 years before the birth of Christ. The people living at that time had become disillusioned with certain beliefs of Hinduism including the caste system, which had grown extremely complex. The number of outcasts (those who did not belong to any particular caste) was continuing to grow."

"However, in Buddhism, like so many other religions, fanciful stories arose concerning events in the life of the founder, Siddhartha Gautama (fifth century B.C.):"

Archaeological discoveries have proved, beyond a doubt, his historical character, but apart from the legends we know very little about the circumstances of his life.

http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/BUDDHISM/SIDD.HTM

Bottom line: There are many good ways of living but be aware of the hallucinations/embellishments and myths surrounding the founders of said rules of life. Then, apply the Five F rule: "First Find the Flaws, then Fix the Foundations". And finally there will be religious peace in the world!!!!!

Eboo

Thank you for reflecting what my own heart has always known. That we are indeed ONE despite many trying to believe otherwise.

The Sun's rays reach all corners of the earth yet parts of the earth remain in darkness but always will shine given time. Try using this dark time to remind us that the dawn is always near. Just sleep it off!! Get a rest. Don't hark on about darkness otherwise you will miss daylight even though the sun is shining on your part of the world.

Eboo

Thank you for reflecting what my own heart has always known. That we are indeed ONE despite many trying to believe otherwise.

The Sun's rays reach all corners of the earth yet parts of the earth remain in darkness but always will shine given time. Trying using this dark time to remind us that the dawn is always near. Just sleep it off!! Get a rest. Don't hark on about darkness otherwise you will miss daylight even though the sun is shining on your part of the world.

The sad global truth of Islamic Terrorism is moving brave men to find their voices:

"Wahabism is rooted in an especially strict austere minority Islamism traced back to the fanatical Puritanism of the Bedouin zealots in Saudi Arabia. It believes that the ultimate sacrifice of a soldier is to give his life for a cause and that cause is jehad or holy war. The Al-Qaeda terrorist network found this tolerable given the historical Islamic suicide wars of AfIt. This gave substance to justify terrorism as a means where a warrior legacy of “heroic masculinity” (perceived to be at the roots of the great Islamic empires in the past) was resurrected within a framework of an anti-modern and anti-secular holy war. Wahabism teaches that the martyrs’ acts of suicide grant ideological compensations that would be reaped by their living communities, and that a harvesting of suicide martyr compensations would hasten the creation of “public spheres” for the hitherto silent to find voice and articulate alternative visions and paths to secular globalization and democratic governance.

Wahabism is totally opposed to the Sufism, the main guiding force for ages of the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent that talked of peaceful and harmonious co-existence with other religions. It is high time the UPA government did a service to this glorious Sufi tradition by encouraging and supporting those Indian Muslims who raise their voice against the xenophobiac Wahabism that is dividing not only the Indians but also the other “world citizens”. "

Suicidal sympathy for terrorists
By Prakash Nanda