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Episcopal cleric tries Islamic rituals for Lent
Speaking to a reporter that afternoon, he had no problem reconciling his Episcopalian views with those of Islam and explained that he hoped to test a concept that has been attributed to Mahatma Gandhi and is discussed in John Dunne’s book, “The Way of All the Earth.” According to the book, it involves passing over “into another religion, which is followed by an equal and opposite process of coming back with new insight to one’s own culture or religion.”
“I could have sat down and read scholarly literature on Islam, but that’s still stepping back from it rather than encountering it,” he said, over a cup of tea in the office of St. Stephen’s Church. “You can think about doing something, but once you do it, you really reflect on it.”
Too bad he faced being defrocked if he continued and ended up backing down =(
This is fascinating, but I wonder if an Islamic cleric would even consider performing rituals from another religion.
“But as for those true men who concur with the belief held by each individual with regard to [their inner awareness of] what led him to that belief, taught it to him and confirmed him in it, on the Day of the Visit such people see their Lord with the eye of every belief. Hence the person who means to do well by his soul must necessarily seek out, during his [life in] this world, all the things that are professed concerning that [i.e., the ultimate divine Reality], and he must come to know why each individual professing a [particular] position affirms what he professes. So when [one of these “true men”] has realized in himself the particular aspect of that profession which gives it its validity for the person holding it and because of which that person professes it with regard to what he believes, so that [the true Knower] does not deny or reject it, [only] then will he reap the fruit of that profession on the Day of the Visit, whatever that credo [‘aqîda] may be. For this is the “All encompassing” divine Knowledge (cf. Qur’an 2:115, etc.)”
Ibn Arabi trans. James W. Morris in The Meccan Revelations, Vol I, ed. Michel Chodkiewicz (New York: Pir Press, 2005), pp. 119-20](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhz9sgMrdm1qzxe0uo1_500.jpg)
ontologicalterrorist:almaswithinalmas:afghanipoppy:
Episcopal cleric tries Islamic rituals for Lent
Speaking to a reporter that afternoon, he had no problem reconciling his Episcopalian views with those of Islam and explained that he hoped to test a concept that has been attributed to Mahatma Gandhi and is discussed in John Dunne’s book, “The Way of All the Earth.” According to the book, it involves passing over “into another religion, which is followed by an equal and opposite process of coming back with new insight to one’s own culture or religion.”
“I could have sat down and read scholarly literature on Islam, but that’s still stepping back from it rather than encountering it,” he said, over a cup of tea in the office of St. Stephen’s Church. “You can think about doing something, but once you do it, you really reflect on it.”
Too bad he faced being defrocked if he continued and ended up backing down =(
This is fascinating, but I wonder if an Islamic cleric would even consider performing rituals from another religion.
“But as for those true men who concur with the belief held by each individual with regard to [their inner awareness of] what led him to that belief, taught it to him and confirmed him in it, on the Day of the Visit such people see their Lord with the eye of every belief. Hence the person who means to do well by his soul must necessarily seek out, during his [life in] this world, all the things that are professed concerning that [i.e., the ultimate divine Reality], and he must come to know why each individual professing a [particular] position affirms what he professes. So when [one of these “true men”] has realized in himself the particular aspect of that profession which gives it its validity for the person holding it and because of which that person professes it with regard to what he believes, so that [the true Knower] does not deny or reject it, [only] then will he reap the fruit of that profession on the Day of the Visit, whatever that credo [‘aqîda] may be. For this is the “All encompassing” divine Knowledge (cf. Qur’an 2:115, etc.)”
Ibn Arabi trans. James W. Morris in The Meccan Revelations, Vol I, ed. Michel Chodkiewicz (New York: Pir Press, 2005), pp. 119-20
(Source: insaniyat)
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