In traditional societies, nature was seen as oneโs wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.
Seyyed Hossein NasrAt 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
Seyyed Hossein NasrThe Islamic world is suffering not only because of external oppression but also because of the loss of its own dignity, of its own heritage, of its own practice of Islam, of its weakening of its own ethics, and many things which are internal to Islam not just external.
Seyyed Hossein NasrLove itself cannot be divorced from the suffering which comes from being separated from the object of love.
Seyyed Hossein NasrThe life of Islamic philosophy did not terminate with Ibn Rushd nearly eight hundred years ago, as thought by Western scholarship for several centuries. Rather, its activities continued strongly during the later centuries, particularly in Persia and other eastern lands of Islam, and it was revived in Egypt during the last century.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr