Muhammad sets the model for being a good statesman. He also sets the model for being a good warrior, for chivalry, of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Rumi is one of the great spokesmen for the Quranic instruction teaching that all prophets come from God and God does not… — 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
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
The word Habib in Arabic means both lover and beloved. At the heart of it is that the Prophet loves God, God… — 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
The Quran explicitly opposes the killing of innocent people and the Prophet was always careful in doing that. If they had to… — 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
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
