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History proves beyond any possibility of doubt that no religion has ever given a stimulus to scientific progress comparable to that of Islam. The encouragement which learning and scientific research received from Islamic theology resulted in the splendid cultural achievements in the days of the Umayyads and Abbasids and the Arab rule in Sicily and Spain. I do not mention this in order that we might boast of those glorious memories at a time when the Islamic world has forsaken its own traditions and reverted to spiritual blindness and intellectual poverty. We have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realize that it was the negligence of the Muslims and not any deficiency in the teachings of Islam that caused our present decay. Islam has never been a barrier to progress and science. It appreciates the intellectual activities of man to such a degree as to place him above the angels. No other religion ever went so far in asserting the dominance of reason and, consequently, of learning, above all other manifestations of human life. ↗


— Muhammad Asad


#islam #science #religion

One of the monks was doing something incomprehensible at the altar, and the others would occasionally chant a few phrases of mumbo jumbo. ↗


— Ken Follett


#religion #religion

The most difficult dilemma for a person is perhaps when his heart testifies to an inevitable reality yet his tongue will not proclaim it, when his mind screams in acceptance of truth but he cant bring himself to state it. ↗


— Umera Ahmed- Peer-e-Kamil


#spititual #religion

I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could've been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be anything Christian. ↗


— Alysia Harris


#dress #poem #poet #poetry #religion

To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be without dogmas is to assert a dogma. ↗


— Fulton J. Sheen


#metaphysics #philosophy #religion #religion

It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out to be an attack upon mind. ↗


— Richard M. Weaver


#secularism #thoughts #religion

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose. ↗


— Marcus Aurelius


#independence #individuality #retire #self #self-assurance

وفيما يخص الالتباس المتعلق بالموقف من الحداثة, فإن الأصل فيه يأتي من أن أحدا لم يلتفت- بما يكفي- إلي استقصاء السياق الفكري والمعرفي الذي تبلور فيه خطاب جماعة الإخوان المسلمين, وتيار الإسلام السياسي علي العموم, وذلك علي الرغم من غزارة الالتفات إلي السياق السياسي والتاريخي الذي أدي إلي ظهور كل منهما; والذي يتمثل في إعلان سقوط الخلافة في العام1924, بالذات. ولعل المدخل إلي الوعي بهذا السياق المهمل, ينطلق من الإقرار بأن تيار الإسلام السياسي- وضمنه جماعة الإخوان- هو جزء من صميم ما يعرف بظاهرة الحداثة العربية; وإلي حد إمكان القطع بأنه لو أمكن تصور غياب ظاهرة الحداثة علي العموم- والنمط العربي منها علي الخصوص- لما كان لتيار الإسلام السياسي أن يتبلور من الأساس. ويعني ذلك أنه يستحيل استيعاب ظاهرة الإسلام السياسي خارج القوانين والمحددات التي حكمت انبثاق وتطور ظاهرة التحديث في العالم العربي منذ العقود الأولي في القرن التاسع عشر. وبالطبع فإنه لا يؤثر في ذلك ما يجري الإيهام به من أن الإسلام السياسي يبغي استبدال الإسلام- كمنظومة حياة- بالحداثة, من أجل استرداد ماضيه الذهبي السابق عليها; حيث الأمر لا يتجاوز مجرد استخدام الإسلام والحداثة معا من أجل بناء وتثبيت أيديولوجيا سياسية, لا تختلف عن غيرها من أيديولوجيات مناوئة إلا من حيث نوع القناع التي تتخفي خلفه ↗


— علي مبروك


#religion #religion

If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground. The Brothers Karamazov Mitya (Dmitri) to Aloysha who visits him in prison, Book XI - Ivan, Chapter 4 - A Hymn and a Secret. ↗


— Fyodor Dostoyevsky


#god #holiness #religion #the-brothers-karamazov #truth

Undesirable things that man can alter (e.g., his weight), he alters. Those that he cannot (e.g., his height), he calls the will of God. ↗


— Mokokoma Mokhonoana


#religion #self-consciousness #the-will-of-god #religion






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