Taking Meaning - Living Islam / Living Islam Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:46:31 +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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]]> 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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]]> 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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