Without Sufism, Islam would not have spread into two thirds of what we call the Islamic world. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The Islamic world doesn't stop in the Arab world or Persia. There is the whole Turkic world, the Central Asian world, South… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The Shariah has many other functions but also protects the tarqiah; it protects the spiritual path. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The Bin Ladens must not be confused with authentic jihad - it's quite something else. If you want an example of external… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Many people have criticized Islam for being just automatic, having no individuality, just surrendering your will to God, but we Muslims know… — 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… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Look at Senegal, about 90% of the Muslims in Senegal are Tijani or Qadiri Sufis. Among them, they have very great teachers… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
There are millions and millions of Sufis who have existed in Islamic history and have the deepest impact on every aspect of… — 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… — 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
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
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
How did the Turks become Muslim? They became Muslim through the Sufis. The Arabs never conquered the Turks. There were people in… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
What is tragic today is that there is a number of Muslims who think that all the solutions are to be found… — 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
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/48c/seyyed-hossein-nasr-6182_grows_tariqah-the-spiritual-path-without-the-s_2246870.jpg)
![“Muhammad sets the model for being a good statesman. He also sets the model for being a good warrior, for chivalry, of nobility, of all the things which the Quran and Hadith [The recorded collections of the sayings and traditions of the Prophet] says of treating your enemy with dignity and kindness.” quote by Seyyed Hossein Nasr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dda/seyyed-hossein-nasr-6182_chivalry_muhammad-sets-the-model-for-being-a-good_240170.jpg)
