I’m grateful to Busted Halo, an online magazine for spiritual seekers, for publishing the following reflection. Inshallah, God willing, I will be contributing more to Busted Halo throughout the rest of the year. Start reading my article here, and continue reading on Busted Halo’s site.
Why I Say ‘Allahu Akbar’
October 22, 2013
This evening, as I left an Amman café after sharing a croissant with an old friend, I was greeted simultaneously by the echoes of the evening call to prayer and a bright full moon in the fading light.
“Allahu akbar!” called the muezzin, “God is greater!” The moon, perfectly round like a communion wafer, was suspended above the power lines and square, cement rooftops.
At the end of a day which included more joys than I can count, and a month of challenges, including moving, missing family and friends, and settling into life in a new city, I couldn’t help but notice this more-than-coincidental convergence of aural and visual. These two very ordinary events — the call to prayer and the emergence of a full moon — have, over the past few years, become particularly symbolic for me, and their convergence made their messages all the more clear.
JORDAN DENARI DUFFNER 
Great post.
Thanks Jordan. Please keep at this. You are doing a great service to us all.
(And thanks for giving it back to Hurta, in a way more dignified way then I could.)
From: Jordan Denari <comment-reply@wordpress.com> Reply-To: Jordan Denari <comment+eqo-b4grnd7hsj_9izyld7@comment.wordpress.com> Date: Saturday, October 26, 2013 4:47 PM To: Paul Knapp <pknapp@yandl.com> Subject: [New post] Why I Say Allahu Akbar: My article on Busted Halo
jdenari posted: “I’m grateful to Busted Halo, an online magazine for spiritual seekers, for publishing the following reflection. Inshallah, God willing, I will be contributing more to Busted Halo throughout the rest of the year. Start reading my article here, and continue”