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If "other" and "others" are before your eyes, Then a mosque is no better Than a Christian cloister; But when the garment of "other" is cast off by you, The cloister becomes a mosque.
Source Shabistari, Secret Rose Garden, The Mosque and the Cloister ยท ๐ Read the full passage
โจ To meditate on today
According to Shabistari, a Persian Sufi poet, as long as you see a stranger in the other, the mosque itself is worth no more than any other place; but when you let go of that separating gaze, every place becomes a place of meeting with God. Today, when you face someone of another culture or another faith, drop the labels for a moment and look for what brings you closer.
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