Taking Meaning - Living Islam / Living Islam Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:58:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Beyond Words and Weapons: Muhammad’s Message /beyond-words-and-weapons-muhammads-message/ Sun, 09 Aug 2015 10:06:28 +0000 http://takingmeaning.com/?p=1094 Words in the Arabic-speaking world are powerful and effective weapons. While the Qur’an is the ultimate and unique masterpiece of the Arabic Language, Arabic poetry has been a highly influential force in Arab society and has been regarded as the Diwan ul-Arab: a literary heritage of Arab life collected by and recorded in the memories…

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]]> Real-ization /real-ization/ /real-ization/#_comments Thu, 12 Feb 2015 20:07:35 +0000 http://takingmeaning.com/?p=1020 Not long ago, it came up in conversation: “Saying that we have the ‘Qur’an and sunnah’ is very vague. It is a cliché with no real-ity.” Because saying is saying. The quest of every soul who has been guided to the path of Islam, whether real-ized or not, is real-izing. “What the Creator has intended…

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]]> /real-ization/feed/ 2 Capture Your Beloved’s Heart, O Seeker /capture-beloveds-heart-o-seeker/ Sun, 01 Feb 2015 08:56:51 +0000 http://takingmeaning.com/?p=924 After recognizing the benefit of the companionship of a shaykh [i] who is connected to the Prophet (pbuh) by the transmission of his Light; a noble guide who lives by both sharī’ah [ii] and Truth – for the sincere murīd [iii] who hopes to arrive at the Divine Presence; the importance of being a companion…

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