Ramadan 2025 Day Ten: Be The Good News

“Those who have a certainty of faith,
and who migrate and struggle in the path of Allah
​with their possessions and their souls,
they have a rank higher in the sight of God,
and it is they who will triumph.
Their Lord gives them the good news
of God’s mercy and acceptance,
and Gardens for them of everlasting bounties.”
- Sura Al-Tawba

There are too many people in our world today who are having to make the choice between struggling in the path of Allah or remaining in a place where the Sacred is being denied to them.

Too many families are having to make the decision to uproot themselves from the only places they’ve called home so that they can be safe and affirmed in their identities.

Too many families are being denied the right to live into the fullness of their being, the right to be known by the Love that holds and celebrates all of who they are.

Too many families are being forced out of their ancestral homes where they have built communities of resilience and joy in the face of occupation and settler colonialism.

It is not enough for us to say that there is a Love, a Holy, a Sacred, a God, that knows their struggle is unjust. To leave it there would be nothing less than spiritual bypassing.

No. In the midst of our beloveds - who are certain of their own right to not just survive but thrive - we must embody what that Holy knowledge requires.

We must BE the good news. Be the co-creators of mercy and acceptance, the tenders of gardens of endless bounties for people who have too long been denied their right to rest.

Whether that is facilitating their journeys to safety and care, or re-creating the world so that those journeys are no longer necessary - we have a responsibility to each other to ensure that nobody is denied their right to lay their possessions and souls down anywhere and know that they are welcome.