Omar Suleiman
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I'm inspired by the resilience of my parents and our grandparents and Palestinians. around the world that have refused to succumb to their erasure, that have refused to give up. And so we have both the energy that we need and we have the examples that we need. The energy is from above. The examples are all around us.
God is the most compassionate, the most merciful, the creator of the heavens and the earth.
He begets not, nor is he begotten.
He is beyond the limitations of man.
He is beyond the constructs of our imagination.
But he is ever accessible through sincere supplication.
When you call upon Him alone, one God, He is closer to you than your jugular vein, the Qur'an tells us.
He's known by many names and attributes, but His essence is one.
No human likeness, no human imperfection can be attributed to Him.
No partners, no image of Him can be constructed.
Well, God's not a feeling.
God is known by names and attributes.
We call upon God, but there is certainly a feeling of closeness when you access him.
So I think the beauty of Islam is that
as perfect as God is described, he's also so accessible to the imperfect.
And so the idea of sincere supplication and connection to him, we worship him alone, we call upon him alone, there's no clergy, there's no barrier between