Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quotes About Prophet

Quotes about: Prophet

• 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.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  War, Fighting, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• 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.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Journey

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• 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.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Teaching, Doe, Prophet

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• 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.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Taken, Angel

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• 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.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Perfection, God Love, Possibility

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• The word Habib in Arabic means both lover and beloved. At the heart of it is that the Prophet loves God, God loves him. But God designated him to be also the founder of a new world order of a civilization of a society.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Heart, Mean, Order

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• 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.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Kings, Father, Army

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• 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.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Kindness, Warrior, Enemy

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• Islam, in contrast to Christianity and Buddhism, does not have monasticism; spiritual life, social life, they are all integrated and related together in one way or another. And the Prophet represents that in his life.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Islam

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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