Sacred Love

It is Ramadan again. When people think about what changes in the lives of the observant during Ramadan, the obvious is abstention from food and water, but in my life the more significant change is going to the mosque to spend an hour every night for the obligatory nighttime prayer and further optional prayers. Over

The Voice of the Past

Last Ramadan, as I picked up Abdullah Yusuf Ali’s translation of the Koran, the translation that I have used my whole life, I decided to add something new. I figured that if I wanted to present myself as an intellectually serious person, I had better get a closer understanding of the Bible than what I