The Mosque: The Heart of Submission (Abrahamic Dialogues)

122 Pages·2006·0.8 MB·English

by  Rusmir Mahmutcehajic

The Mosque
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Copyright(cid:2)2006FordhamUniversityPress
Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybe
reproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinany
formorbyanymeans—electronic,mechanical,photocopy,
recording,oranyother—exceptforbriefquotationsinprinted
reviews,withoutthepriorpermissionofthepublisher.
TheAbrahamicDialoguesSeries,No.3
ISSN1548-4130
LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData
Mahmutc´ehajic´,Rusmir,1948–
Themosque:theheartofsubmission/Rusmir
Mahmutc´ehajic´.—1sted.
p. cm.—(TheAbrahamicdialoguesseries,
ISSN1548-4130;no.3)
Includesbibliographicalreferences.
ISBN0-8232-2584-4(hardcover:alk.paper)
1.Mosques. 2.Salat. 3.Islam—Essence,genius,nature.
I.Title. II.Series.
BP187.62.M34 2006
297.2—dc22 2005032422
PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica
0706 54321
Firstedition
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Inmemoryofmyfriend
HaralddeMeyenburg
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Contents
Foreword WilliamC.Chittick ix
Introduction xvii
1 TheSelfandtheself 1
2 TheSelfThatSpeaks 5
3 TheWorld 9
4 Humankind 13
5 TheBook 17
6 Dignity 21
7 ArrivalandReturn 25
8 Space 29
9 Time 33
10 Nature 37
11 TheOpening 41
12 TheDebt 45
13 Poverty 49
14 Mary 53
15 ‘‘PurifyMyHouse’’ 57
16 TheAscension 61
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viii / Contents
17 TheHoly 65
18 TheName 69
19 ThePeace 73
Afterword 77
Notes 81
Bibliography 95
Index 97
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Foreword
WilliamC.Chittick
Thisisaremarkablelittlebook.AsIreaditthroughIwasastonished
at Dr. Mahmutc´ehajic´’s ability to reformulate classical positions of
Muslimthinkersandspiritualteachersinfreshandoriginalways.De-
spite his use of a nondenominational language, he is completely in
linewiththeIslamicintellectualtraditionfoundedbytheQur’anand
theProphetandechoeddownthroughtheagesinthewritingsofnu-
meroussagesandsaints.Nowheredowemeetasimplerehashofold
ideas,butratherafreshandongoingrediscoveryoftherichesofpro-
pheticwisdom.
Those seasoned in Islamic thought and spirituality will find old
friends appearing in new guises on every page. Those familiar only
withthedistortedpictureoftheIslamic traditionthatisthestock-in-
trade of the media will no doubt wonder where these teachings are
comingfrom.Readingthroughthebooktheyshouldgraduallybeable
tounderstandthatthebasicsourceissimplya pureheart,freeof the
trammels of prejudice and ideology and open to the discovery of
God’swisdominthebeautyofcreation,scripture,andtradition.
Dr. Mahmutc´ehajic´ is well known for his writings on Bosnia and
inparticularforhis attemptstodelineatewaysinwhichthereligious
communitiestherecanreestablishtheamicablerelationsthattheyhad
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