Seyyed Hossein Nasr

To be modern is to destroy nature.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Love is loss combined with pain.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

If God did not love us, we could not love him. And Sufis are those who have realized this love.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Love itself cannot be divorced from the suffering which comes from being separated from the object of love.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The Shariah has many other functions but also protects the tarqiah; it protects the spiritual path.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Why does one need a doctor if God has given us our body and we pray to Him for our help?

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Sufism has always had the function of purifying Islamic ethics and that fasting and tazkiya is like lighting a lamp.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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

Once you've fallen in love, it's turned around your whole life. You keep thinking about this girl all the time instead of…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

At all costs we should avoid considering our love of God to be superior to the love of the other for GodLet…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Yearning is inseparable from love, and since once doesn't have the object of love immediately, one has not fallen in the embrace…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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

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

The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.

— 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…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The life of Islamic philosophy did not terminate with Ibn Rushd nearly eight hundred years ago, as thought by Western scholarship for…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“Protestantism and Catholicism must not be compared to Sunnism and Shi'ism in the Islamic context as has been done by certain scholars.…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“To consider Western science simply as a continuation of Islamic science is, therefore, to misunderstand completely both the epistemological foundations of the…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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

“From my earliest works written in the 1950s and 1960s, I have claimed that there is such a thing as Islamic science…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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

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

The significance of the vast Islamic scientific tradition for Muslims and especially for young Muslims today is not only that it gives…

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“The tradition of Islamic science of course gradually weakened but it did not decay as rapidly as some people have claimed in…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“Islamic science is related profoundly to the Islamic world view. It is rooted deeply in knowledge based upon the unity of Allah…

— 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…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“In the West, the great problem that was created for Christianity from the 17th century onward and even earlier during the Renaissance…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“Modernism does not mean simply change and newness; it is a particular way of looking at the world, a particular philosophy based…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“We cannot gain an essential knowledge of man through any method that is based on externalization of man's inner being and the…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“We, that is, the traditionalists like myself, use the term ‘‘modernism’’ not in a vague way as characterizing just things that happen…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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

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

The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

One of the greatest problems of humanity is how to live in a multi religious society without losing one's religion - without…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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