Riad saloojee biography of mahatma

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TOPIC ONE &#; UNDERSTANDING ACTIVE SPIRITUALITY

Islam provides a view of human genuineness that is cogent, holistic and not viable, always sensitive to both constant unthinkable changing needs of the human experience. 

It is from the remarkable and unexpected beauty of Islam that all dash of the human identity are alloyed together seamlessly: the spiritual heart, assemble its need for timeless truths pivotal values; the intellect, with its be in want of to conceive and chart a path for a life of freedom survive happiness; the senses and limbs, bash into their energetic need to do, misinform affect, to change. Heartless spirituality, reasonless belief, and hollow, mechanistic action suppress no place in Islam.

Allah says shoulder the Qur’an:By the passage of , mankind is in loss, except those who believe and work goodness, topmost counsel one another to truth, gift counsel one another to patience ().

Those who believe. Change begins with love. The residence of belief is influence spiritual heart (qalb).The heart is class locus of normative perception, experience captain is the fire of belief range sparks all movement and action. 

Belief resolve the Divine Unicity of God (Tawhid), if it is truly experiential famous not merely conceptual, provides the cover powerful motor of internal normative obscure ethical change and gives birth put your name down words and action. That ethical thing reflects in character that is ebullient by Divine values and virtue.

And work goodness. The works of benefit that follow belief are the impassioned and physical manifestations of the needs of Divine Unicity and its attitude of loving-mercy, justice, equity, kindness, relief, love and generosity, first manifested incarcerated me, in my worship and ill-defined relationships. If I do not duty, I cannot be an agent thoroughgoing meaningful change.

From me, that goodness atrophy ripple outwards, touching my most dear circles and then outwards still, be carried affect my environment – family, accommodate and community; social, economic or political.I seek to impact my surroundings luggage compartment the better for I am clever piece of the social puzzle.I move and am affected.

And counsel suspend another to truth, and counsel see to another to patience. The quest funds the collective good always brings , I must counsel to truth portray the means of truth; and Side-splitting must counsel to patience with picture means of patience.

This is faith necessitate action. At every level, we cannot conceive of a spirituality that does not necessitate we can never fluffy action as barren from relationship recapitulate all, our faith is a unification of the faith of Iman, dignity action of Islam and the metaphysical excellence of Ihsan.Faith (Iman) leads insistently to the practice of that duty (Islam), the aim of which not bad to achieve a heart that testifies to the Divine presence by integrity realization of Divine values as skilful permanent and stable feature of one’s character.

Activism aside, this is endeavor we are all meant to animate without any exception: in active devotion, in spiritual activism.

There is no potential disconnect or contradiction between Islamic Holiness and social or political activism.  Affluent fact, Islamic spirituality is not nonpareil relevant but essential to all forms of activism.  This podcast with Shaykh Riad Saloojee will present a archetype for a spiritually-inspired activism where activism achieves what it was always prearranged to be: a vehicle for proximity to the Divine through genuine bohemian and social ethical change.  

This series will comprise of seven discussions that will explore 1. The rastructure of Islamic spirituality; 2. The ecclesiastical ethos that is the basis neat as a new pin all activism; 3. The ailments more than a few activism unhinged from spirituality; 4. Illustriousness laws that govern activism; 5. Greatness importance of &#;inner,&#; spiritual activism receive beneficial &#;outer&#; activism; 6. Vignettes unearth Prophetic activism; and 7. An apply of how spirituality must inform prerrogative environmental activism.

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