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
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 Buddhism 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
“One wonders who knows more about the coyote, the zoologist who is able to study its external habit and dissect its cadaver… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Habits Copy Share Image
“The question, therefore, is not whether one should teach philosophy to Muslim students, but rather what kind or kinds of philosophy should… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Islam 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 Art Copy Share Image
“The theory of evolution also had a very great effect in alienating science from religion and creating a world in which one… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Biology 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 Angel Copy Share Image
“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 Islam 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… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Christian Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Catholicism Copy Share Image
When one talks about being like a dead corpse in the hands of a spiritual teacher it means being able to surrender… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Militarily, the great movements of resistance against colonial powers in the 18th and 19th century were almost all from Sufis: Imam Shamil… — 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 Ailments Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Empiricism Copy Share Image
“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 Essence Copy Share Image
“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 Christianity Copy Share Image
“The ideal of the 11th/17th century physicists was to be able to explain all physical reality in terms of the movement of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Biology Copy Share Image
“The decadence which did occur in the Islamic world belongs to a much later period of Islamic history than is usually claimed.… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr History Copy Share Image
“In a battle ‘Alī confronted a powerful enemy and after a fierce fight was able to throw the enemy to the ground… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr War Copy Share Image
Al-Hallaj has a special destiny. He came at a time when worldliness, the luxury, were inundating the Islamic world. His function was… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“The compartmentalization of knowledge, which is one of the characteristics of the mental and intellectual scene of the modern world, is not… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Compartmentalization Copy Share Image
Spiritual guidance needs guidance. It's like comparing walking on the ground and mountain climbing. Once you learn how to walk, you can… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Climbing 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
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
I wish someone could get rid of individuality so easily; one never gets rid of one's individuality completely. One gets rid of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
In fact many Hindu yogis and Sufis met, they became friends, they spoke about the knowledge and love of God; about all… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
People who were also traders were also men of Sufism, as we see around Java, people who were outwardly trading but were… — 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 Action 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 Culture Copy Share Image
“The anti-religious modernism which now threatens Islam and Muslims everywhere can be fully understood only by understanding the religion of the civilization… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Anti religious 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… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Chivalry 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 Access Copy Share Image
What does a lamp do? The lamp is like a horse that is running but stays put. But by virtue of being… — 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 Every moment Copy Share Image
Only in the West did a philosophy develop that was not only no longer the love of wisdom but went so far… — 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 Aftermath 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 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/i/dda/seyyed-hossein-nasr-6182_chivalry_muhammad-sets-the-model-for-being-a-good_240170.png)
