Ignorance doesn’t understand wisdom, and before wisdom comes into a being, there’s a long state where that being has to have the capacity to be silent and patient in order to allow the teaching to be absorbed so that there can be some understanding. And while this is going on ignorance is constantly doubting. Ignorance …
The world right now is under great stress and in great difficulty in many parts of the earth. These things don’t seem to be resolving themselves very easily. Feuds that have existed for hundreds, even thousands, of years, continue to stay in existence, stay strong, and be acted on. And there seems to be no …
Consciousness is something that Allah has given to not only man; animals have consciousness. And animals have a certain amount of intellect. Some animals have more intellect than others, some have instinct, but if you ever do a study or watch some of these animal documentaries on television, you can see that animals can use …
Last night, for some reason “to be or not to be?” kept floating through my head. When Hamlet was talking about it he was contemplating taking his life, but “to be or not to be?” has other implications. In Islam there is a Canon Law called the Shariat. It tells you how to act or, …
There’s a story about an Arab who was doing prayers with the Prophet and at the end of prayer he was walking out, and the Prophet was already done, he was standing in the doorway, and he looked at him and he said, “You did your prayers wrong. Go back and do them again.” And …
We’ve all gone to the movies and we go to the movies knowing, to some extent, what to expect. Movies come with labels; comedy, action, drama and so forth. And while you sit there and watch you are looking at a group of images being projected onto a screen, and these images talk through a …
If you boil water and you catch steam, and it comes back to its normal form through the process of condensation, you’ll see that water is clear, it’s transparent, you can see through it. In politics there is constant talk about making the system transparent, about making the process transparent. There are all kinds of …
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Having the opportunity to live with an insan kamil, with a perfected human being, during one’s lifetime is a great blessing for one’s life and an opportunity that is very rare in this world. Not many people have the opportunity to live with an exalted being. Having had that opportunity and, of course, many people …
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth and eventually He got around to creating man and woman, and man roamed the earth. And time passed, and Allah sent many prophets and teachers and qutbs and friends to explain to man mans’ creation and mans’ purpose. So, Allah fashioned man and woman and …
