Islamic World Quotes by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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

“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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

All Muslims stand before God and they are their own priests.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“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

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

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

Without Sufism, Islam would not have spread into two thirds of what we call the Islamic world.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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

Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr