Coming like a Miracle Each Year
Fasting is the first guest of my pen's new homeland. Just as happens every year, the time has come and the clock's miraculous alarm has sounded: we saw the non-aging, ever-fresh, ever-bright moon on the horizon as a fine, silver bow. We suddenly realized how much we missed this angel of love that has been a friend of our spirit since the beginning of time. Like a fine, silver reed, the moon made ...

Fasting: Cement Block-Busting
Just as spring cleaning is made in a house once a year when the cob webs are swept away, the roof is repaired, and the house is cleaned, repaired and painted, our souls need such a general cleaning and revision once a year. A city's being cleaned, repaired, renewed, plastered and painted greatly resembles a Muslim city's spiritual dynamism, elevation and advancement throughout the fast. When loo...

Night of Power
The Night of Power is a night praised by the Quran, because the Night of Power is the night the Quran descended. The Night of Power is a "center-of-gravity night." Allah put all the power of his sacred words in this night. If the Quran had not been revealed, the universe and existence and every type of creation would have remained as magic or as a riddle whose secret could not be known. It was re...