Omid Safi gives us a way of the importance of Christmas, the delivery of Jesus, and the sacred expertise of Mary within the Islamic custom.
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Mary and Jesus: A Sufi Perspective on the Christmas Story
Omid dives into the delivery of Jesus as informed and understood within the Islamic custom. He explores how Mary is essentially the most distinguished feminine character within the Quran, and reads some passages from the chapter of Mary concerning the conception of Jesus. Omid steps away from the Quran to learn Rumi’s account of the encounter between Mary and the Holy Spirit.
“The panorama the place the Quran locations the delivery of Jesus is each acquainted and likewise a little bit completely different. So, if our understanding of Christmas has develop into commodified and commercialized, the place typically it looks as if it’s extra about Santa Claus and the Three Clever Males bringing presents, effectively, you understand, the Quran doesn’t have a lot to do with that.” – Omid Safi
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Solitude and Solidarity (20:35)
Omid explores a number of the connections between Muhammed and Jesus, and Muhammed and Mary. He returns to the story of Mary, studying passages concerning the struggling she skilled throughout childbirth and the way her second of solitude turned a second of solidarity with God. Omid talks about how within the Quranic account of this story, Jesus speaks as a new child.
“So a time of solitude can develop into a time of group, and a time of solidarity.” – Omid Safi
Is Mary a Prophet? (42:05)
Omid reads extra from Rumi about how we’re all just like the story of Mary within the Quran, all of us have a Jesus within us. He talks extra concerning the significance of the story of Mary in Islamic spirituality, and the way it’s included into the prayer lifetime of Muslims. Omid ends the present with a dialogue of whether or not or not Mary is taken into account a prophet within the Islamic custom.
“What will we name somebody who talks with God, and God talks again to them? Many traditions would name them a prophet.” – Omid Safi
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