Standing Alone (2016)
“Robert F. Kennedy (1925–68) Make your land a sacred area For you are in the sacred area.
Make your age a sacred time For you are in the sacred time.
Make this earth into a sacred mosque For you are in the Masjid al-Haram.
For “the earth is God’s mosque”
And you see that: It is not.
Ali Shariati (1933–77) MORGANTOWN—In the predawn darkness of the eleventh day of Ramadan, my family and I continued the mystical journey we had begun whe...n we traveled from Mecca to Jerusalem.
The prophet Muhammad had climbed onto a winged creature called the baraq. We climbed into my family’s Chrysler minivan, my father behind the wheel. We set off on the wings of our commitment to the essence of Islam: truth, justice, and equality. We were the same ordinary pilgrims who had set off for Mecca almost eleven months earlier: my father, my mother, Samir, Safiyyah, and Shibli.MoreLess
Make your age a sacred time For you are in the sacred time.
Make this earth into a sacred mosque For you are in the Masjid al-Haram.
For “the earth is God’s mosque”
And you see that: It is not.
Ali Shariati (1933–77) MORGANTOWN—In the predawn darkness of the eleventh day of Ramadan, my family and I continued the mystical journey we had begun whe...n we traveled from Mecca to Jerusalem.
The prophet Muhammad had climbed onto a winged creature called the baraq. We climbed into my family’s Chrysler minivan, my father behind the wheel. We set off on the wings of our commitment to the essence of Islam: truth, justice, and equality. We were the same ordinary pilgrims who had set off for Mecca almost eleven months earlier: my father, my mother, Samir, Safiyyah, and Shibli.MoreLess
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