M. Ali Lakhani
The detachment of tradition is the voiding of all that is human in order to merit the grace of reconnecting with our spiritual center — the Light that transcends metaphor. It is this Light of compassionate serenity that constitutes the core of our very being, radiating within us as true adab, genuine spiritual courtesy, and within humankind as the traditional humanism that can be our only salvation.
This essay was first published in Volume 5 (2000) of the journal, Sacred Web, and is reproduced here with the kind permission of Sacred Web Publishing.
