We are already sacred.
When we think of the foundational ritual of our religion, it is the ṣalāt.
It is nothing but our bodies, the land and water.
The land upon which we live.
The water that we need to survive.
The bodies through which we have this human experience.
The ritual that our Creator call us to perform every day is rooted in the ever-present sacredness of us and our surroundings.
It requires nothing else but that which is already there as the foundations of human life on Earth.
We are already sacred, and the ṣalāt is a reminder of that reality.
We can forget.
We can temporarily unpurify our bodies, the ground and/or the water.
But daily connection with the sacred is intention–>water–>body–>land.
It is the foundational truth to which we return again and again.
The stark confrontation with the real.
Land. Water. Bodies.
الله الله الله
A Mercy Case 