I Am Superman - Ramadan 2011 Kindness Contest Theme Song

The Prophet said, "Nothing ascends to Allah except good."

Allah's Apostle said, "If somebody gives in charity something equal to a date from his honestly earned money ----for nothing ascends to Allah except good---- then Allah will take it in His Right (Hand) and bring it up for its owner as anyone of you brings up a baby horse, till it becomes like a mountain." Abu Huraira said: The Prophet. said, "Nothing ascends to Allah except good." 

(Bukhari :: Book 9 :: Volume 93 :: Hadith 525)

"I have been all things unholy. 

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."

~ St. Francis of Assisi 

The Prayer of Saint Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Where there is injury, pardon.

Where there is doubt, faith.

Where there is despair, hope.

Where there is darkness, light.

Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,

grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;

to be understood, as to understand;

to be loved, as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.

Amen.

Lord, make me a channel of thy peace;

that where there is hatred, I may bring love;

that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;

that where there is discord, I may bring harmony;

that where there is error, I may bring truth;

that where there is doubt, I may bring faith;

that where there is despair, I may bring hope;

that where there are shadows, I may bring light;

that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.

Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted;

to understand, than to be understood;

to love, than to be loved.

For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

It is by dying that one awakens to eternal life.

Amen.

(found in  AA 12 Steps and 12 Traditions)

I Can Only Imagine (Ramadan Re-mix)

MC Yogi - Give Love

One Truth

Invocation (of the Universal Sufis)

Towards the One
The Perfection of Love, Harmony and Beauty
The Only Being United with all the illuminated souls
Who form the embodiment of the Mother,
The Spirit of Guidance.
Amin

Omar Faruk Tekbilek - One Truth

There never was a people 

without a Warner having lived among them.

-Quran 35:24

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And certainly We sent Messengers before you; 

there are some of them 

that We have mentioned to you 

and there are others whom we have not mentioned to you.

-Quran 40:78

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Hadhrat Abu Zarr Gifaari (Radi Allah Anho) narrates 

that the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, said, 

'The Prophets were 124,000.' 

(Mishkaat)

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There is no truth but Truth

and the Prophetic Light

is Truth's messenger.

Ya Haqq!

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Every people has a book even if it is written in the language of the stars.

"Our Bible is the wind and the rain."

-Herbalist Carol McGrath

as told to her by a Native American woman 

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Before the written word, sacred stories were spoken, entire books were memorized by the people, passed on generation to generation.  


Records of the Past


How beautiful is a place of worship when its walls are filled with sacred words.

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Egyptian Book of the Dead
Sumerian Mythology

Sumerian Cuneiform

image from Wikipedia

Book of Shadows
The Babylonian Legends of Creation

Every religion is a love song, an intimate gift to the peoples of the world.  Though they come to us in different languages, the words are the same for the Word is one.

The Bible
Pistis Sophia
Thrice Greatest Hermes, Vol. 1
The Virgin of the World

The Prophet, peace be upon him, said, "Seek knowledge even in China."


The Heart Sutra by Buddha
Confucius sayings
Tao Te Ching
Bhagavad Gita

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For Unity of Faiths

May S/He Who is the Abba in Heaven of the Christians, Hashem of the Jews, Allah Most Merciful of the Muslims, Sophia of the Gnostics, Buddha of the Buddhists, Tao of the Chinese, Ahura Mazda of the Zoroastrians and Brahman of the Hindus lead us from the unreal to the Real, from darkness to light, from disease and death to immortality.  May the All-Loving Being manifest Him/Herself unto us, and grant us abiding understanding and all-consuming divine love.  Peace, Peace, Peace be unto all.

- by Ramakrishna, (my revisions to the prayer in italics)

By Thy Grace by Snatam Kaur

Allah, Jehovah, Rama, SatNam

Names of God

Allah

Jehovah

Rama

SatNam

Waheguru

Ganesh

Saraswati

Elohim

Ahura Mazda

Great Spirit

 The Loving

Ar-Rahman

The Friend

The Truth

The One

The All

Ma

Alla

The Most Beautiful Names belong to God.

Quran 7:180

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It is said that Allah has 3,000 Names.  1,000 of them are known only to the angels.  1,000 are known only by the Prophets.   300 are found in the Torah, 300 in the Psalms, 300 in the Gospels and 99 in the Quran.  The sum of these names is 2,999.  There is one name that is hidden by God, the Ism Allah Al Azam.

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