Out of Darkness into Light
by Rahman, JamalFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-03-01
Publisher(s): Morehouse Pub Co
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Spiritual Directors International is a global learning community of people from many faiths and many nations who share a comman concern, passion, and commitment to the art and contemplative practice of spiritual direction. Morehouse Publishing is proud to partner with SDI to present professional resources for spiritual directors, those in spiritual direction formation programs, and other who are interested in a deeper relarionship with the divine. Book jacket.
Author Biography
Jamal Rahman, a Muslim Sufi Minister at Interfaith Community Church in Seattle and adjunct faculty at Seattle University, is a co-host on "Interfaith Talk Radio," a sought-after speaker and retreat leader, and author of The Fragrance of Faith: The Enlightened Heart of Islam. Kathleen Schmitt Elias, a former nun and now a Sufi Jew, is an interfaith seeker and amateur scholar of the sacred texts of Judaism and Islam. Ann Holmes Redding, both a Muslim and a Christian with a doctorate in Christian scripture, has had a long and varied ministry as a professor, preacher, pastor, retreat leader, and spiritual director.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. xiii |
| Spiritual Guidance in the Abrahamic Traditions | |
| Turning to a Spiritual Path | p. 3 |
| Guidebooks for the Spiritual Journey: the Quran and Other Sources | p. 15 |
| Mysteries of Life | |
| The Mystery of God | p. 35 |
| The Mystery of Human Existence | p. 49 |
| The Mystery of the "Other" | p. 61 |
| The Mystery of the Invisible World | p. 85 |
| The Mystery of Death | p. 101 |
| The Path of Surrender and Provisions for the Journey | |
| The Journey of Surrender | p. 119 |
| Compassion | p. 143 |
| Knowledge, Wisdom, and Awareness | p. 157 |
| Prayer and Related Spiritual Practices | p. 169 |
| Balance | p. 191 |
| Community | p. 203 |
| Service | p. 213 |
| Recommended Reading | p. 225 |
| Quranic Verses and Hadith for Meditation | p. 229 |
| The Ninety-Nine Beautiful Names of Allah | p. 237 |
| Bibilography | p. 241 |
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