Thinking Anew:
Muslim Chaplains Bridging the Gap
By Faraz Khan
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Sohaib N. Sultan served as a Muslim chaplain at Trinity College and Wesleyan University in CT. He has been working in college chaplaincy for four years. However, this Fall 2008, Sohaib will become the first full-time Muslim chaplain at Princeton University. He will work as a "Muslim Coordinator" at Princeton and thus, will give an immediate boost to an already active MSA. Sohaib is a soft spoken person who has been trained as a chaplain at Hartford Seminary.
He is the author of the Koran for Dummies, one of the bestselling books on Islam. As a chaplain, Sohaib's work centers around four core areas. The first is ministry, which involves preparing and delivering a weekly sermon, and performing other rites such as marriage ceremonies. His preaching deals with common issues facing Muslim youth.
Secondly, he offers counseling and care-giving to students to help them deal with the various issues they are facing in life. Whether it is helping students choose a career path or dealing with more serious issues such as depression, his counseling sessions help students work through their life's challenges.
Thirdly, he teaches students various Islamic sciences such as a thematic introduction to the Qur'an, which help students learn more about their faith and answer questions they may have about Islam.
Lastly, He also works with other chaplains to have interfaith dialogue and cooperation, even organizing a Jewish-Muslim travel abroad opportunity to enhance interfaith relations.
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Sultan,I read your annotation to The Qur'an. I did not find it difficult to understand at all as stated in the introduction to the Qur'an. Allow me to say this, you may think other wish to praise God, many of them only pretend to see where at with God or to hold back from praising God. There are many haters and they do not want to esteem or give those they hater creditability.
Also you said something about Muslim committing act of terror under the name of Islam. Have it ever occurred to you that those Muslims hate Islam and Muslims? This one factor everyone take for granted that everyone of their race love everyone of that race. This is not true. Haters hates their own race and would do things to make it look bad or discredit it. Haters are in every race and they hate their own race. It is mostly about jealousy.
One of the black race greatest problem is haters who are black, but haters black. No one consider this. You need to tell the world that those individuals who are committing act of terror by the name of Islam hater Muslims. If the loved Muslims why would they commit act of terror under Islam making all Muslims look bad. It cause they Islam and God. When the world wake up and see it is haters among each race which make that race look bad.
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