Tag: spirtuality
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Sports as Sacred and Secular Activities
The modern world is witness to how sports have transformed from merely physical (and at times mental) exercises to economic, cultural, and even political forces to be reckoned with… [however] H.R.H. Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad argues that despite its despiritualized and industrialized form today, the popular pastime of sports turns out to have sacred origin…
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Ramadan: Beyond the Nafs, Towards the Lord
The reduction of Islamic practices to an incentive of material or individualist well-being is in effect a liberal remaking of Islam. In essence fasting cultivates a self that is conscious of the truth: that we do not have the right to food, water, and sex when Allah decrees such. The feeling of hunger and thirst,…