Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quotes

• El amor de Dios no sólo es la forma más elevada de amor, sino también en realidad el único amor del que todos los demás amores no son más que sombras

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  God, Religious, Islamic

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• 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.

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  Breathing, Growth, Quests

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

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  Wife, West, Modern

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

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  Spiritual, Religious, Philosophical

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• Many people have criticized Islam for being just automatic, having no individuality, just surrendering your will to God, but we Muslims know very well that every moment of the day we have to practice the fact that to surrender one's self to God is an act of free will.

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  Self, Practice, People

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• To be modern is to destroy nature.

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  Environmental, Modern

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• The Quran explicitly opposes the killing of innocent people and the Prophet was always careful in doing that. If they had to fight a war, he was always on the side of peace as soon as it was possible to make peace because that's what the Quran says also.

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  Guerra, Lucha, Gente

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.

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  Justice, Human Life, Inseparable

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

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  Religious, Humanity, Losing

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• Love is loss combined with pain.

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  Pain, Loss, Love Is

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• El alma humana, siempre que sea lo suficientemente pura y fuerte, puede ponerse en contacto con lo oculto tanto en la vida de vigilia como en los sueños: todo lo que se requiere es la retirada del alma del tumulto de la vida sensorial.

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  Dream, Strong, Soul

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• 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 went on a journey with Khidr and Khidr said, "I will not accept you unless you stop questioning things," which from an external point of view seems strange, but inwardly is very meaningful. This is exactly the question of spiritual guidance.

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  Meaningful, Spiritual, Journey

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• At all costs we should avoid considering our love of God to be superior to the love of the other for GodLet us love God and leave it for Him to decide on the intensity and sincerity of our loves, as well as of our differing views of Him

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  Views, Our Love, Cost

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• Only in the West did a philosophy develop that was not only no longer the love of wisdom but went so far as to deny the category of wisdom as a legitimate form of knowledge. The result was a hatred of wisdom that should more appropriately be called ‘misosophy’ (literarily hatred of Sophia, Wisdom) rather than philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Hatred, West

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1996). “Religion and the Order of Nature”, p.80, Oxford University Press

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• 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.

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  Fall, Men, Levels

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• 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.

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  Art, Islamic, Soul

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• Muhammad was, first of all, a Prophet of course, a beloved and lover of God, a father, an army commander, a judge, a ruler of a community, the King of Medina and later of Arabia, and all of these were combined in him and his destiny, the reason God brought him on earth, was to show how each of the functions which human beings have in life have the perfect form in the prophet.

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  Kings, Father, Army

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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

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  Sacerdotes

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• In Islam, we believe that it is God himself who is the ultimate guide - Al Hadi - one of the names of God is Al Hadi, the Guide. But at the same time, God has provided within the Islamic revelation the possibility of spiritual guidance through human beings, because then everyone can have direct access to God.

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  Spiritual, Believe, Islamic

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• En el campo de la medicina, si estás enfermo necesitas un médico. Un médico ya ha estudiado cómo tratar tus dolencias, y los seres humanos son imperfectos. Hay muchas dolencias de la psique y del alma que necesitan ser tratadas, y el murshid serio, o maestro espiritual, es también en realidad un médico del alma: una persona que puede curar las heridas del alma del mismo modo que un médico se ocupa de nuestros problemas físicos.

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  Spiritual, Doctors, Medicine

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• In fact many Hindu yogis and Sufis met, they became friends, they spoke about the knowledge and love of God; about all the similarities that exist. And then the simplicity of Islam, the fact these people practiced what they preached brought many, many Hindus into Islam.

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  People, Simplicity, Islam

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• What is tragic today is that there is a number of Muslims who think that all the solutions are to be found simply by external actions. They don't have to do anything within themselves. This is a deeply Western idea - modern, Western idea, where you try to improve the world without improving yourself. And this is what the Muslims who talk about others putting their heads in the sand and that "We are doing jihad and we are political" and so forth, they are emulating a very important mistake of modernism.

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  Error, Pensamiento, Ideas

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• Once you've fallen in love, it's turned around your whole life. You keep thinking about this girl all the time instead of thinking about other things. Since the object of love is that particular person, being separated brings about a longing and pain.

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  Girl, Pain, Love Is

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• It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which influenced Western science. It is also for Muslim scholars to present the tradition of Islamic science from the point of view of Islam itself and not from the point of view of the scientism, rationalism and positivism which have dominated the history of science in the West since the establishment of the discipline in the early part of the 20th century in Europe and America.

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  Islamic, Views, Europe

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• La doctrina tradicional del hombre y no la medición de cráneos y huellas es la clave para la comprensión de ese anthropos que, a pesar de la rebelión del hombre prometeico contra el Cielo a partir de la época del Renacimiento y sus secuelas, sigue siendo el hombre interior de todo hombre, la realidad que ningún ser humano puede negar dondequiera y cuandoquiera que viva, la huella de una naturaleza teomórfica que ningún cambio y transformación históricos pueden borrar por completo del rostro de esa criatura llamada hombre.

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  Reality, Men, Skulls

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1989). “Knowledge and the Sacred: Revisioning Academic Accountability”, p.162, SUNY Press

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