Hi Muslim readers

Where is the holiest place in the world? When asked this question, we tend to think about pilgrimages in some religions. Each year millions of people flock to the so-called holiest places in their religions such as Mecca for Muslims and Varanasi for Hindus. Where is truly the holiest place on earth? The sure answer is the place where God lives. Where does God live? The place where there is no sin or sin is completely cleared. Because all human beings have committed sin and thus are sinful, the holiest place is where our sin and rebellion against God are completely washed away and thus cleared forever. There is only one such place in the world. Our heart where Jesus Christ has been received as the Savior and Lord! When we accept Jesus as our Savior and Lord, the divine Holy Spirit comes into our heart to live with us. While you may be desperate to go to pilgrimage once in your lifetime or once a year if you are rich enough, I go to pilgrimage every morning. Everyday with heavenly joy, heavenly thanks and heavenly freedom I enjoy a wonderful festival with God who lives right in my heart. The heart of the matter is the matter of the heart!

Sadly for many centuries people have been mistaken that certain places such as Mecca for Muslims, Varanasi for Hindus and Jerusalem for Christians, or certain buildings such as mosques for Muslims, temples for Hindus and churches for Christians are the holiest places in the world. Accordingly they have occupied those places by risking and killing numerous precious human lives. In fact these lives could have been the holiest places with Jesus Christ in their heart! With the wrong perception that certain earthly places are the holiest and thus must be secured at all costs, religious leaders have destroyed the (potentially) holiest places on earth, our heart! In this regard Christians made some shameful mistakes many hundred years ago. This is why I have kept saying that human lives are the most precious in the whole universe after the Creator, because He created them. No religions, no religious laws, no religious traditions and absolutely nothing are more important than the precious human lives. Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple. (1 Corinthians 3:16-17)

Where is the holiest place in the world that we must pay the most attention to? That is our heart where the divine Holy Spirit lives through receiving Jesus Christ as the Savior and Lord! Going to pilgrimage for certain earthly places and buildings is absolutely nothing, and waste of time and effort if your heart is not circumcised with Jesus Christ. However, the Most High does not live in houses made by men. (Acts 7:48) I wish you would enjoy the real and true pilgrimage everyday just like me with Jesus in your heart. Then you are sure to experience heavenly joy, heavenly thanks and heavenly freedom every morning. For we are the temple of the living God (2 Corinthians 6:16)

You deserve much better than who you are now. You were born for much better than who you are now. You were created to be loved by God, not to fulfill religious duties, rituals and traditions like a slave or a machine. Let us not miss our full potential as a true human being whose heart overflows with joy, thanks and freedom in a loving relationship with Jesus Christ

Institutionalizing of Muslim-Christian Dialogue

Contrary to Samuel Huntington's postulation of a clash of civilizations, Gülen advocated a cooperation of civilizations, which attracted political and academic interest. He encouraged people to engage in dialogue, and establish centres of dialogue in order to meet this global imperative.

This paper will examine Nostra Aetate and Gülen's views regarding an advanced stage of dialogue

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In The Early Hours (Part 2)

A continuation of extracts from (The Early Hours) a book by Khurram Murad on Tazkiyah, or the purification of the soul

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU4whmN8OoA

(37 minutes)

Love is one of the deepest, most intense emotions that a person can experience. It is also one of the most wonderful blessings that Almighty Allah has created for human beings in this world.

People take great pleasure in the material and spiritual gifts that Allah has bestowed upon them; they take pleasure in beautiful views, comfortable houses, and fine cooking. But none of these satisfactions can compare with the happiness that love gives. ...

The basic source of the love that believers feel for others is their love of Allah.

The knowledge that Almighty Allah creates the joy that comes from their heart-felt love for others, as a manifestation of Himself, gives that love its depth ......

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 Call me a tin hat promoter... but something stinks about all the recent earthquake activity of late...My money is on HAARP ( High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) Basically a weapon based on the theories of Nokola Tesla devoloped by the US.

 It leaves me cold to ponder on whether Haiiti has been the only casualty in recent times of such a weapon. And could Iran be on the hitlist... I truly hope not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haarp