A collection of nearly 1000 parables and maxims. Open at random and each will inspire you to pause and reflect. With poignant humor, subtle wisdom and piercing truth, each will enrich your faith, open your heart, and challenge you to grow. This new edition includes new material and a more comprehensive index.

Allah, God in His Infinite Wisdom has given human some understanding of His creation. Allah is the Creator of everything that is. He wills and it is. He is beyond human comprehension and His Divine systems do not conform to human concepts, creed, or dogma. Allah, God, the Creator has created the universe of galaxies, worlds, stars, the Sun and the moon and the little atoms, protons, neutrons, and the tiny particles which show the complexity of His Genius. Allah the Lord of creation sends water from the heavens for sustenance of life on earth. Allah directs sunshine to the earth to provide the warmth and light to sustain human, plant and animal life. Allah formed the sun, moon, and stars to create equilibrium in the universe, with every object in its intended place revolving in its fixed orbit in perfect harmony and balance. Allah created the secrets and the mysteries of the heavens and the earth, the so-called sciences, the knowledge of particles, elements, cells, mitochondria, chromosomes, gravity, black holes, only a minute portion of which he revealed to man. Allah clearly provided humankind with a mind to wonder at Allah’s infinitesimal wisdom. Yet humans are conceited and arrogant if they believe that God is driven by man-created creed, testament, dogma, Sunna and Sharia. Allah does not require a shrine, temple, tent, or a talisman to live in. His presence is everywhere. He is present in the smallest particle and in the greatest expanse. He is accessible to each and every object He has created. Every object obeys Allah’s will except for humankind, who has been given a free will. The Covenant of Allah presents us with the scope of the freedom of choice that humankind has in doing what is wholesome and beautiful or that which is corrupt or ugly, in the human role amongst the creation. It reminds us of how the scales of Allah’s justice, the two hands of Allah, His mercy, and His wrath, are reflected in the human domain, where people have been appointed Allah’s vicegerents. Deeds of goodness and wholesomeness are associated with mercy, wholesomeness, paradise, and the beautiful. Evil and corruption is rewarded with wrath, hell, and the ugly.

Engaging with the age old question of who is the God of Islam, Bruce B. Lawrence stakes out the historical nuance of Allah throughout the past 1500 years, from the earliest mention of his name to his appropriate by cyberspace.

The Cambridge Companion to American Islam offers a scholarly overview of the state of research on American Muslims and American Islam. The book presents the reader with a comprehensive discussion of the debates, challenges and opportunities that American Muslims have faced through centuries of American history. This volume also covers the creative ways in which American Muslims have responded to the myriad serious challenges that they have faced and continue to face in constructing a religious praxis and complex identities that are grounded in both a universal tradition and the particularities of their local contexts. The book introduces the reader to some of the many facets of the lives of American Muslims that can only be understood in their interactions with Islam's entanglement in the American experiment.

Presents a patchwork narrative of Muslims from different ethnic and class backgrounds, religious orientations, and political affiliations, bringing together an unusually personal collection of essays and documents from an incredibly diverse group of Americans who call themselves Muslims.

A two volume encyclopedia set that examines the legacy, impact, and contributions of Muslim Americans to U.S. history.

"Neither as Christians or Jews, nor simply as intellectually responsible individuals," says Hixon, "have members of Western civilization been sensitively educated or even accurately informed about Islam." As tensions between America and the Middle East grow, we should promote cross-cultural understanding, not violence. This new edition, with a new foreword and commentary by Neil Douglas-Klotz, allows the reader to drink from the illuminating fountain of the Holy Qur’an—the foundation of Islamic culture. First published in 1988, Hixon’s poetic meditations on over nine-hundred passages from the Qur’an show that they are not relics from the past but exist in a timeless present, communicating as vividly as when they were first uttered. Through clear and accessible language, Hixon illustrates how the teachings of Islam can be applied to contemporary everyday life issues such as love, relationships, justice, work, and self-knowledge. In addition to the selections themselves, the book contains readable, lively introductions to the tradition of Islam, its basic precepts, and what it says about other religions. As the first such work in English to be written by a Muslim, The Heart of the Qur’an continues to show that Islam is among the great wisdom traditions of humanity.