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
Muhammad was the exemplar ruler, exemplar father, exemplar warrior, and once you have a family, you have contentions, you have problems, human… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
There is no religion in the world where there is a possibility of spiritual development outside of the context of that religion.… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Christian Copy Share Image
Rumi is perhaps the greatest mystical poet who ever lived, one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. He was able… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
In Islam, there is no priesthood and each person stands before God, like in the daily prayers, without an intermediary. That's in… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Catholic Copy Share Image
“The Islamic intellectual tradition has usually not seen a dichotomy between intellect and intuition but has created a hierarchy of knowledge and… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Intellect 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,… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Islam Copy Share Image
Jalaluddin Rumi is completely rooted in Islamic teachings of Quran. He was a great scholar, he belonged to a madrassa, and he… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Education Copy Share Image
“Modernism, philosophically speaking, is in a sense the ‘‘worship’’ of time and the transient, a kind of deification of time and becoming… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Sufis have always been those that have tried to purify the ethics of Islam and society. And they don't have their hands… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Action 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
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
“From the Renaissance until today, Christianity, and also to some extent Judaism, in the West have had to carry out a constant… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Christianity Copy Share Image
“A famous poem of Sa‘dī states: The children of Adam are members of a single body, For from the moment of creation… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, in the 13th/19th century philosophy began to see itself as a complete replacement for religion as one can see in the… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Ideology Copy Share Image
“Let me also again emphasize that it is only within Islam that Sufism can be practiced. The two have never been separated… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Hindu 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
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
“Even in the physical world, all that cannot be caught in the net of modern science is collectively neglected, and its nonexistence… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Deaf people 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], a famous story, in which Moses represents sort of the external understanding of the religion and Khidr represents the inner spiritual understanding of the religion. Moses…” quote by Seyyed Hossein Nasr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e76/seyyed-hossein-nasr-6182_accepting_the-quran-mentions-the-story-of-moses-an_1845322.jpg)
