"THE HIGHER ASPIRATIONS OF JUSTICE" 7 February 2020 The Quran manifests the power of words. Words make a great deal of difference because of way that God created existence. God created humans as intelligent animals capable of reason and reasoning. Intelligent and rational animals respond to words. The Quran persistently reminds and calls humanity to reason, through the power of words. The more human beings stop responding to words, the more that words lose their place and role in the life of...
"REASON AND REVELATION: ON BECOMING A MORAL HUMAN BEING" 24 January 2020 Our anchor in our existence is revelation. This is, in principle, what defines a believing Muslim. A Muslim is the person who believes that this world – this existence with its known and unknown, physical and non-physical, and material and non-material planes – has an Owner, and that this Owner is All-Knowing, All-Seeing, and purposefully and meaningfully engaged with the existence that the Owner owns. This existence...