Sunday, January 23, 2011  The Retreat: a BBC Documentary on
Spiritual Retreat  Do you reflect that the Companions of the
cave and the inscription were, among Our signs, a wonder? - The
Quran 18:9  Spiritual retreat is valued across all traditions.
For obvious reason the nature of it, duration, how it is
conducted has evolved over period of time and it varied in
various cultures and traditions. Yet one thing remained
unchanged that human being need to turn away consciously from
the ordinary at times in order to prepare the journey towards
the extra-ordinary. All major eastern religion and even in three
major Abrahamic traditions we find that the Sunnah (pattern) of
the Divine Messengers such as Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, perfect
peace and blessings of God be on them always have spiritual
retreat as corner stone of radical spiritual transformation of
these greatly illuminated beings. The forty days and forty
nights of Moses at Mount Sinai, forty days of Jesus in the
wilderness and prolonged solitary retreat of