Two minarets of the historic and beautiful Golden Mosque have been destroyed. The mosque is located in Samarra, Iraq; it has already lost its golden dome to bombing.
I am a Unitarian Universalist, not a Muslim; looking in from the outside, it seems to me that the symbolism of the dome of a mosque relates to the spiritual growth of the community of the faithful, while the symbolism of the minaret relates to communication of a message. If those ideas are approximately correct, the bombings not only damage the physical structure of the mosque, but attempt to negate the reasons for its existence and its spiritual life.
My prayers in this situation are for those who are physically and emotionally shocked by the destruction of more of a remarkable building, and for the focus that will allow people of all faiths to remember that the core of our spiritual lives is our beliefs and ideas expressed through actions, not buildings that may be created or destroyed.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment