Our family gathering for holidays has always included a prayer before meals that my grandfather started, and now that he's gone some of us want to continue it and others feel like we're just going through motions and it's creating this terrible tension where no one knows what's respectful anymore. We all loved him but we're not all in the same place spiritually.
More people experience this than they realize.
A family is discovering that shared rituals can become sources of division when belief and practice are no longer uniform.
“Where Are You with Sufi mysticism — the inner path in Islam?”
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