From Caterpillar to Butterfly: The Marvels of Metamorphosis

Feb 10, 2017 | Sufism

Transformation can be uncomfortable, be it personal or global transformation.  Yet if the caterpillar doesn’t shed its skin it cannot become a chrysalis.  If it does not spend the full required time in the chrysalis phase, it does not become a butterfly. When I was at...

Our Promise. Our Commitment. Our Challenge.

Jan 27, 2017 | Sidi Our Spiritual Guide

Sidi Shaykh Muhammad al-Jamal is the spiritual guide of UOS. Many of us have taken him as our personal guide as well, and in doing so, we took a Promise. Our promise includes to be honest, to be sincere, to walk straight, to follow the way of the prophets, and to...

2016: Living Peace Webinar

Jan 6, 2017 | Announcements

 CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE THE FULL SERIES    It is in the divine wisdom that the world lives and evolves through dynamic contrasts. We learn through both prophets and physicists that the universe manifests through breaking the perfect unity and symmetry of the...

What Divine Wisdom Teaches Us through Polarity

Jan 6, 2017 | Sufism

Happy New Year!  We hope you had a blessed holiday weekend and rang in 2017 with love, joy and hope. The new year brings with it rapid change and interesting times, where uncertainty and chaos can threaten to overwhelm us.  Many are speculating and questioning whether...

The Love of Allah Transcends Space and Time

Dec 30, 2016 | Divine Names

It’s hard to believe, but this is our last blog communication of 2016. Only one more day left in this year. This is a time of completion – an ending to what has been, in many ways, a challenging year. And it is also a time of transition. Following are a few...