Muslim Group Conference 2017 // Promo Video
The Muslim Group of USA and Canada proudly presents its 34th Annual Conference | Al-Quran: The Spring of Our Hearts.
Register today at: Conference.TheMuslimGroup.org
As the world turns and seasons change, our lives negotiate their own natural cycles of birth, growth, maturity, decay and death. We augment these natural cycles with artificial ones: daily commutes, morning and evening routines, regularly scheduled entertainment, and even planned holidays wherein we might find some brief respite from our shackles of employment. We ward off our need for renewal by constantly doing away with the old and ushering in the new—from the newest cell phone offerings, to evolving social media platforms and the latest fashion trends.
Beneath the cyclical monotony of these artificial cycles, adorned as they are by the comfort and ease of modern amenity, there is an unmistakable void that remains. We all do feel it—the emptiness, the spiritual sloth, the hollowness of countless forms, all empty of substance. In these latter days of great imbalance, we are in desperate need of restoring our connection to the natural order which surrounds us. We are thirsty—dying of spiritual thirst, and desperately in need of a sip from some sacred spring that might give us renewal and make us whole once more.
But despite the waywardness of our own selves, God’s natural order remains beautiful, and fixed, and constant. The world still turns, the seasons still change, and the North star still twinkles in the sky each night—right where we expect her to be, should we remember to look. And at the end of winter, the sun still crosses the equator on its apparent Northern course to initiate a new spring. We take joy in this, as blooming flowers and trees attest to the orderly power of nature, and remind us of our own need for renewal. No matter how disorderly we become, the natural order of God’s creation sings: ‘Come back, come back—a thousand times, come back!’
