by The Rev. Jamie L. Hamilton | Mar 11, 2026 | Ramadan & Ash Wednesday, Reflections
It is not your wealth or your children by which you are brought nearer in proximity to Our Presence: only people who have faith and do good are those for whom is compounded reward for what they have done, and they’ll be secure in the chambers on high. And those who...
by The Rev. Jamie L. Hamilton | Mar 10, 2026 | Ramadan & Ash Wednesday, Reflections
So in fact you cannot cause the dead to hear, nor can you cause the deaf to hear the call when they have turned their backs. And you are not the guide of the blind out of their error; you cannot make anyone hear but those who believe in Our signs and have submitted....
by The Rev. Jamie L. Hamilton | Mar 9, 2026 | Ramadan & Ash Wednesday, Reflections
Who guides you through the darkness of land and sea? Who sends the winds as joyous news, heralding His mercy? Is there any god besides God? Exalted is God, above the gods they join with Him. Who brings about Creation, then renews it, Who sustains you from the heavens...
by The Rev. Jamie L. Hamilton | Mar 8, 2026 | Ramadan & Ash Wednesday, Reflections
There assembled before Solomon his armies of jinn and of men and of birds, and they were marching in ranks, until when they approached the Valley of the Ants, one ant said: O ants! Enter your dwellings so that Solomon and his armies not crush you while they are not...
by The Rev. Jamie L. Hamilton | Mar 7, 2026 | Ramadan & Ash Wednesday, Reflections
God is the light of the heavens and the earth. The simile of God’s light is like a niche in which is a lamp, the lamp in a globe of glass, the globe of glass as if it were a shining star, lit from a blessed olive tree neither of the East nor of the West, its light...
