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 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
The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams:… — 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
In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor".… — 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
The traditional doctrine of man and not the measurement of skulls and footprints is the key for the understanding of that anthropos… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Muhammad was, first of all, a Prophet of course, a beloved and lover of God, a father, an army commander, a judge,… — 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
The Prophet, peace be on him, presents all the possibilities of the human state in perfection. Now, a part of that of… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 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, not in… — 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 of God… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image