'That He may question the truthful about their truthfulness'? [33:8] If He is going to question the truthful about their truthfulness, shall those who make pretentious claims be left without being questioned?"
-Ibn 'Ata Allah, Taj al-'Arus, pg. 123
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'To give the newcomer the rukhas is fard.
To give yourself the azima is Sunna' (Contention 13/7).
-Abdal Hakim Murad
-Abdal Hakim Murad
Sunday, November 25, 2012
NYU President John Sexton's new book: Baseball as a Road to God (March 7, 2013)
Release Date: March 7, 2013
A love letter to America's most beloved sport and an exploration of the deeper dimensions it reveals
For more than a decade, New York University President John Sexton has used baseball to illustrate the elements of a spiritual life in a wildly popular course at NYU. Using some of the great works of baseball fiction as well as the actual game's fantastic moments, its legendary characters, and its routine rituals—from the long-sought triumph of the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers, to the heroic achievements of players like the saintly Christy Mathewson and the sinful Ty Cobb, to the loving intimacy of a game of catch between a father and son—Sexton teaches that through the game we can touch the spiritual dimension of life.
Baseball as a Road to God is about the elements of our lives that lie beyond what can be captured in words alone—ineffable truths that we know by experience rather than by logic or analysis. Applying to the secular activity of baseball a form of inquiry usually reserved for the study of religion, Sexton reveals a surprising amount of common ground between the game and what we all recognize as religion: sacred places and time, faith and doubt, blessings and curses, and more.
In thought-provoking, beautifully rendered prose, this book elegantly demonstrates that baseball is more than a game, or even a national pastime: It can be a road to a deeper and more meaningful life.Amazon link
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