Taking Meaning - Living Islam / Living Islam Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:48:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 The Eating Place: A Short Story /intellect-and-heart-the-eating-place-a-short-story/ Wed, 16 Sep 2015 03:49:58 +0000 http://takingmeaning.com/?p=1164 Carnelian Lane was a dead end street. At the very end of the road, nestled among giant shade trees and a lovely fountain which sang its tune refreshingly, there was a very fine restaurant. As the phrase suggests, this dead end street was somewhat dead: not in the sense of life and death but rather…

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]]> Rumi’s Revolution: Mawlana’s First Night of Dhikr-e Samâ’, Adapted from The Forty Rules of Love /rumis-revolution-mawlanas-first-night-of-dhikr-e-sama-adapted-from-the-forty-rules-of-love/ Fri, 28 Aug 2015 19:29:58 +0000 http://takingmeaning.com/?p=1136 The following account of Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi’s first night of dhikr-e samâ’ has been adapted from the novel “The Forty Rules of Love”, by Turkish author Elif Shafak. There are those who say that dancing is sacrilege. They think Allah gave us music—not only the music we make with our voices and instruments but the…

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]]> A Bag of Cookies /bag-of-cookies/ Sat, 05 Jul 2014 07:29:59 +0000 http://takingmeaning.com/?p=517 A Bag of Cookies Early, the woman waited alone in the bustling airport. Her plane wasn’t scheduled to leave for several hours, so she meandered over to one of those over-priced, last-minute-gift-buying shops to get a book and something to nibble on. She took a seat in the VIP room. Nice. It was a respite…

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