Sayyed Husain Nasr is a living legend a Philosopher, thinker, interpreter of Sufi mysticism and a gift of Allah to Muslim Ummah after Allama Iqbal. May Allah give him a long life.
Is it not the case that most Muslims don't accept the notion that God is the Good (in the Platonic sense of that term)? According to the Ash'aris (the main theological school of Islam) "good" has no intrinsic reality; but rather what God does is good.
Correct. In fact not just Asharis. All Muslims believe that personal opinion is a Satanic trait when acted upon obsessively. Which is why Satan was cast away, not just for insisting he's better than Adam but going a step further and acting upon it and not bowing down. It is assumable that some of the Angels doubted Adam's position as the Symbol of God. But when they received the clear signs, they did not oppose the harmonious laws of the Universe. All in all, disorder is a reality to be accepted but that does not validate disorder.
tolkien said the way to kill the dragon is too name the dragon so he name d his dragon smaug which is old english for smugan to squeeze through a small hole (see smaug the dragon squueezed his way through a small hole to get into mountain) and then after lieing on gold and gems which stuck into his soft under belly bilbo and thrush noticed a missing paych on left breast so bards black arrow squeezed through another small hole smugan/smaug smOWg in order to kill himm.
no not power. only Allah and Allah alone has sole power. there are no higher or lower powers and nothing and none has or can have any formdegree or aspect of power.
Sayyed Husain Nasr is a living legend a Philosopher, thinker, interpreter of Sufi mysticism and a gift of Allah to Muslim Ummah after Allama Iqbal. May Allah give him a long life.
Aaamiiiin Ya Rabbal Alamin May Allah always give him a healthy and a long life....
Beautiful lecture
JAK. I wish I could attend any of his seminars personally,
Is it not the case that most Muslims don't accept the notion that God is the Good (in the Platonic sense of that term)? According to the Ash'aris (the main theological school of Islam) "good" has no intrinsic reality; but rather what God does is good.
Correct. In fact not just Asharis. All Muslims believe that personal opinion is a Satanic trait when acted upon obsessively. Which is why Satan was cast away, not just for insisting he's better than Adam but going a step further and acting upon it and not bowing down. It is assumable that some of the Angels doubted Adam's position as the Symbol of God. But when they received the clear signs, they did not oppose the harmonious laws of the Universe. All in all, disorder is a reality to be accepted but that does not validate disorder.
tolkien said the way to kill the dragon is too name the dragon so he name d his dragon smaug which is old english for smugan to squeeze through a small hole (see smaug the dragon squueezed his way through a small hole to get into mountain) and then after lieing on gold and gems which stuck into his soft under belly bilbo and thrush noticed a missing paych on left breast so bards black arrow squeezed through another small hole smugan/smaug smOWg in order to kill himm.
no not power. only Allah and Allah alone has sole power. there are no higher or lower powers and nothing and none has or can have any formdegree or aspect of power.