Articles with tag: Spirituality
An Hour at Datta Darbar
Bushra Zulfiqar Oct 4, 2009 interacts: 34There were loud speaker warnings about the pick pockets and jewelery theft. The shrine which reflected the beauty and sacredness of God’s love suddenly became a classical reflection of all our social evils.
Secular Spirituality
Khalid Sohail Sep 3, 2009 interacts: 72I have read the descriptions of spiritual experiences in the religious and holy books but this is the first time I read a biological, neurological and secular description of spirituality (Dr Jill Taylor’s book, My Stroke of Insight)
A Letter to God
Saima Shah Apr 26, 2009 interacts: 62Light of my heart, help me speak so that hearts can talk. Those hearts that wear a shield of iron around them, those hearts who dare not speak their truth, hearts who believe that there is no love for them...
The Gentle Power of the Sufi Tradition
Murad A Baig Apr 21, 2009 interacts: 473Although Sufis are now widely considered to be a Muslim sect, their history goes back to long before the advent of Islam.
If God is the Same then Why is God Different?
Saima Shah Apr 19, 2009 interacts: 90The answer to this question came after many years of searching.
God of Many Needs
Mutaal Mooquin Mar 7, 2009 interacts: 51I am infinite
I am a god;
Self-sufficient
Creator
Shaper
Destroyer
Al-Aah: The Lover's Sigh
Saima Shah Feb 27, 2009 interacts: 99They have tried hard to tell me you don't exist,
That you are a figment of my imagination
And what is my imagination?
A Staircase Connecting Three Worlds
Salma Omar Mar 27, 2008 interacts: 10This is a world where hopes are pinned, dreams take form and life’s problems seem to somehow droop their heads like tired banners on an old banyan tree.
Demystification of the Other
Amina Agha Jun 18, 2007 interacts: 4A spiritual journey to places of worship--mosque, church and synagogue
The Secret Is: Don’t Worry, Buy Happy
Saima Shah Apr 5, 2007 interacts: 16Then mankind became a bit smarter and said no god. But that meant more and more people would ask questions and not do as they are told. So mankind had to be taught to believe in god again and ignore the really difficult questions of why we kill, why there
The Globalization of Spirituality
Saima Shah Dec 11, 2006 interacts: 50When Soros became socialist and Bill Gates generous, we all knew something big was happening. We theorized, we fantasized and we said,’aaha, perhaps intense consumerism leads to something good—philanthropy!’
Science, Psychology and Spirituality
Khalid Sohail Aug 7, 2006 interacts: 56When temporal lobe of right side of the brain is stimulated, human beings have special experiences that are known as ’spiritual experiences’ in religious traditions and literature.
Selling Spirituality
Khalid Sohail Jul 6, 2006 interacts: 157The biggest tragedy is that there is an increasing number of simple, innocent, naive and gullible people who follow these pseudo-mystics and after wasting a lot of time, money and energy realize that they were misguided and mislead.
God-shaped Hole: Contemporary Relevance of the Spiritual
Farrukh Khan Nov 18, 2004 interacts: 9From a world of certainty and solace provided by God– in the next world if not this one– the 19th century sciences, philosophy and political ideology plunged humanity into a crisis of faith and culture that has continued into the present times
The Commodity called Spirituality
Bilal Tanweer Jun 29, 2004 interacts: 17Of all the blessings of capitalism that I have experienced to date, the one that I have found most amusing is the Spiritual Industry.
My Hajj Sojourn
Sohail Moghal Jul 17, 2003 interacts: 9It all started with some weird, undefined, ambiguous changes in my daily routine. I slept uneasy… dreamed of unidentified, surrealistic places... woke up with an outlandish burden on my heart… and felt alienated the whole day. This went on for
