Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quotes
The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all other loves are but shadows
The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.
In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.
The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.
The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that is required is withdrawal of the soul from the tumult of sensory life.
Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the level of the basest of creatures.
In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor". It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.
I wish someone could get rid of individuality so easily; one never gets rid of one's individuality completely. One gets rid of one's egotism, which is a very different matter.
Why does one need a doctor if God has given us our body and we pray to Him for our help?
Rumi is one of the great spokesmen for the Quranic instruction teaching that all prophets come from God and God does not create one religion, but many religions.
One of the greatest problems of humanity is how to live in a multi religious society without losing one's religion - without relativising everything.
Love itself cannot be divorced from the suffering which comes from being separated from the object of love.
Without Sufism, Islam would not have spread into two thirds of what we call the Islamic world.
The Prophet was taken by the order of God to heaven, which is a prototype of all spiritual realization in Islam. But, he had a guide; Gabriel, the angel, was his guide. He took him to heaven.
The Islamic world doesn't stop in the Arab world or Persia. There is the whole Turkic world, the Central Asian world, South Asian world, Southeast Asian world, and African world.
The Shariah has many other functions but also protects the tarqiah; it protects the spiritual path.
If God did not love us, we could not love him. And Sufis are those who have realized this love.
The Prophet, peace be on him, presents all the possibilities of the human state in perfection. Now, a part of that of course is love of God.
Sufism has always had the function of purifying Islamic ethics and that fasting and tazkiya is like lighting a lamp.
The question, therefore, is not whether one should teach philosophy to Muslim students, but rather what kind or kinds of philosophy should be taught and how the subject should be approached.
