Eid Mubarak

Asalam Alaykum Eid Mubaruk.The greeting is similar to the one we used at the beginning of Ramadan, though Eid Mubaruk heralds the feast of Eid ul-Fitr or Id-Ul-Fitr which marks the official end of the month of Ramadan.

Made it! :-))

Eid celebrates the compassion and forgiveness of Allah and is a time of great family celebration, a little like Easter and Christmas rolled into one. On a spiritual level it is also a time to receive and and extend forgiveness one to another.To mirror our relationship with Allah to brothers and sisters.

For me Ramadan has been a significant part of my own personal pilgrimage and has enriched my understanding and experience of God greatly.


But will I become a Muslim, you may ask? The answer is no.


Much as I love Allah (God/Yahweh) my God wears a suit not a salwar kameez,

He has a western world view, like mine

and He understands the subtlties and sensitivities of my pampered western nature: And I'm comfortable with that arrangement.

I can love Him by any name, but I can only worship Him in he way that is most natural for me.

I suppose we all ultimately create God in our own likeness, depending on weather our world view is eastern or western, but it's good to know the commonality we have in God, and to carry a bit of that as part of our individual God experience.


I have tried to express it this way;


If I wasn't a catholic,
I might have been . . . a pastor in a black pentecostal church,
praying for the sick and casting out demons.

. . . . . . If I wasn't a catholic.

If I wasn't a catholic,
I might have been . . . a high church Anglican,
rejoicing in sung pastoral liturgies and red robed choirs,
clouded in a sea of incense.

. . . . . . If I wasn't a catholic.

If I wasn't a catholic,
I might have been . . . a Tibetan Buddhist
contemplating my Ying and my Yang,
and the meaning of life,
or a fat Muslim cleric with more than one wife.

. . . . . . but I'm not,

I'm just a homogenized (monogamous?) blend
of all of the whole jolly lot


Eid Mubaruk. wa'salam