Henry Bayman

“To God belong the Most Beautiful Names, so call Him by them.” — The Koran (7:180)  “God has 99 Names [such that] whoever knows them…

This short note is intended to shed light on the controversies surrounding two of the Prophet’s wives, Aisha and Mary (Mariya or Mariyah), thereby clearing…

A scene from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018). Say: “If you love God, follow me, so that God will love you and forgive your sins.”…

  (The Black Pearl: Spiritual Illumination in Sufism and East Asian Philosophies was published in 2005. Its first chapter, “Secrets of the Tea Ceremony,” discussed…

With the movie Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 (2018) coming up, this seems like a good time to take a closer look at one of…

Human beings: The noblest among you in the eyes of God is the most pious. —God (49:13) Human beings, your Lord is one and your…

Superman Returns (2006), Bullet Scene. The following article will be met by certain predictable responses. Those with a materialistic outlook will fail to come to…

Introduction The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Geneva-based International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). The abolition of all weapons of…

  Inside each of us there is a caged animal, struggling to break out. In Sufism, it is called the Base Self (nafs al-ammara). Nor…

  [T]he Jewish Cabalists…thought that a work dictated by the Holy Spirit was an absolute text: in other words, a text in which the collaboration…