The Loss of Unity: A Personal Journey
The Loss of Unity: A Personal Journey It was around the 2nd of Muharram in Toronto. At a commemoration ceremony, Sayyid Mahdi Modaressi spoke on the big screen: “Time is moving forward. If we do not progress, we will die, because time does not stand still. We must move with time.” Those words anchored something I had been carrying silently for years. Back in 2006, I had asked myself — or the universe — how do we outrun time? It took nearly two decades to uncover the answer. What began to emerge was that to outrun time is not to fight it but to expand ourselves — to grow inwardly, so that we are no longer crushed by the entropy the world is heading toward. At the point where this expansion connects with the One who can take us further, we discover that we have not been moving against time, but beyond it. This intention to bridge the gap — between ourselves and the living Imam (atfs), between the fragmentation of our age and the awaited wholeness — drove everything that followed...