Baraka Institute: Recent Episodes
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"If there is one single thing that Arabs and Muslims could do to reform and re-vitalize their crisis ridden cultures, it would be to liberate their women and provide them with the full rights women are enjoying in more and more countries around the world. Women’s equality is key to a real Arab Spring."
An interesting viewpoint from Mustafa Akyol's column for the Hurriyet Daily News. Akyol is a Turkish political commentator and author based in Istanbul. He thinks and writes on issues relating to Islam and modernity.
WATCH Healing Self, Healing Society: A wide-ranging talk followed by dialogue with Shaykh Hamza Yusuf drawing on the wisdom of the Qur'an and the Islamic tradition, at the Festival of Faiths, May 2014, Louisville, Kentucky
WATCH The Qur'anic Hermeneutics of Non-Violence: An inspiring talk by Afra Jalabi at the World Sufi Forum, March 2016, Delhi, India
WATCH Sacred Silence in Sufism & Vedanta / Sacred Silence: Pathway to Compassion - 2 talks by Seyyed Hossein Nasr at the Festival of Faiths, May 2013, Louisville, Kentucky
By Kabir Helminski Entering the Kentucky Exposition Hall for the Islamic funeral service of Muhammad Ali, one of the first things that caught my eye were people in T-shirts that read “I Am Ali.” I quickly realized that these were not necessarily Muslims, nor sports fans, but regular people, citizens of Louisville, volunteers to help
Shaikh Kabir Helminski (Qur’anic translation and commentary by Muhammad Asad) 1. Witness objectively, without judgment: Ya Shahid The purpose of human life can be stated as: to attain the knowledge of Reality. Everything that is given to human beings through revelation is to guide us to knowing our true selves and through our selves to
Shaikh Kabir Helminski speaks about extremism as a pathology of the ego with a religious justification. All human endeavours and institutions are prone to degradation because of egoism. The real and original Islam was and is a remedy for this spiritual disease. From a talk given at City Circle London, Sep 2015.
Listen to Amir, the formerly anonymous Arab Spring activist behind the internationally acclaimed sociopolitical blog The Sudanese Thinker, which inspired the rise of the Sudanese digital activism scene.
"This denial of the right to freedom vis-à-vis religion is one of the roots of the evil from which you suffer, oh my dear Muslim world; it is one of those dark wombs in which, in recent years, monsters grow, and from whence they leap out at the frightened faces of the whole world..."