A gentle September rain fell as I drove to temple last week. My friend and mentor and his wife had invited me to attend Selichot services at Temple Sinai in Roslyn, New York. I am used to being the lone Muslim in a Jewish congregation: I have attended Shabbat services with friends before, celebrated at a Jewish wedding, mourned at two Jewish burials and even addressed several Jewish congregations myself. Yet...
Yom Kippur's message of return - for Muslims
So-called 'Muslim' states have submerged Islam’s values of justice and compassion. Taking the example of the Jewish concept of 'teshuvah,' or return, could assist Muslims to recover their own sense of forgiveness, which is innate to Islam - but less evident in its modern-day manifestations - to return to the straight path that was once revealed to us.
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