Ramadan

I'm sitting listening to the chants of Muslim prayers on the first night of Ramadan but like everynight still hearing my neighbor across the street scraping the side of his pot of roasted peanuts. My previous unreflected expectations prompt me to pursue more knowledge of this new season I have awaken to today.

Expert from A Christian's Response to Islam by William M. Miller

"It is as though a person in the dim light of dawn should look at a distant building. He sees the building, he perceives there is only one building, but he is unable to tell whether it is a residence or a factory. He is sure it only has one story, and is built of brick. But when he comes nearer, and views the building in the clear light of day, he realises that it is built of stone, not of brick, and instead of having only one story it has three. He now knows the building as it really is. When a Muslim looks toward God in the imperfect light of Qur'anic revelation and his own reason, he sees God's power and will, but does not see God's love. He sees God's unity, but he does not see that he is Trinity in unity. Such true knowledge of God is possible only when one sees God in his Son Jesus Christ."