The Shariah has many other functions but also protects the tarqiah; it protects the spiritual path. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The Prophet was taken by the order of God to heaven, which is a prototype of all spiritual realization in Islam. But,… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Tariqah [The Spiritual Path] without the Sharia [Islamic Law] is like having a pistachio tree without the shell. Or a walnut, a… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
When one talks about being like a dead corpse in the hands of a spiritual teacher it means being able to surrender… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
People who were also traders were also men of Sufism, as we see around Java, people who were outwardly trading but were… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
If you have a billion Muslims, 900 million of them were not brought into Islam by any kind of invasion, but most… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
If you want to make a decision in life on what to do, but if you're trying systematically, through spiritual practice, through… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
In fact, the machine doesn't have the consciousness we have, the free will that we have, and to surrender one's free will,… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Spiritual guidance needs guidance. It's like comparing walking on the ground and mountain climbing. Once you learn how to walk, you can… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Muhammad was the exemplar ruler, exemplar father, exemplar warrior, and once you have a family, you have contentions, you have problems, human… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
In the field of medicine, if you're sick you need a doctor. A doctor has already studied how to deal with your… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
There is no religion in the world where there is a possibility of spiritual development outside of the context of that religion.… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The Quran mentions the story of Moses and Khidr [a prophet mentioned in the Quran who guided Moses on a revelatory journey],… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Rumi is perhaps the greatest mystical poet who ever lived, one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. He was able… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Let me also again emphasize that it is only within Islam that Sufism can be practiced. The two have never been separated… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
In Islam, we believe that it is God himself who is the ultimate guide - Al Hadi - one of the names… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Islam, in contrast to Christianity and Buddhism, does not have monasticism; spiritual life, social life, they are all integrated and related together… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these ideas are… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
“In the Islamic world itself also there is a great crisis in he modern established universities precisely because the systems from the West have… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
Muhammad was the exemplar ruler, exemplar father, exemplar warrior, and once you have a family, you have contentions, you have problems, human problems, and… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
Muhammad sets the model for being a good statesman. He also sets the model for being a good warrior, for chivalry, of nobility, of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
“For anyone who understood the essence of modernism based on and originating in the secularizing and humanistic tendencies of the European Renaissance, it was… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
In fact, the machine doesn't have the consciousness we have, the free will that we have, and to surrender one's free will, not in… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
In Islam, we believe that it is God himself who is the ultimate guide - Al Hadi - one of the names of God… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
“Without the withering criticism by nominalism, medieval Christian philosophy and theology would not have relinquished their claim to the role of knowledge in discovering… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
The Islamic world is suffering not only because of external oppression but also because of the loss of its own dignity, of its own… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
Without Sufism, Islam would not have spread into two thirds of what we call the Islamic world. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
There is no religion in the world where there is a possibility of spiritual development outside of the context of that religion. This is… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share
![“Tariqah [The Spiritual Path] without the Sharia [Islamic Law] is like having a pistachio tree without the shell. Or a walnut, a walnut cannot grow on a tree without having a shell, and the food that you eat is inside the shell.” quote by Seyyed Hossein Nasr](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/48c/seyyed-hossein-nasr-6182_grows_tariqah-the-spiritual-path-without-the-s_2246870.png)
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