By Irshaad Hussain
“Our ability to manipulate the mechanics and physics of this universe is all accomplished within the bounds of the system. Underlying all our accomplishments are the systems of Allah.[3] His presence, His power, His command pervades all of it…”
By Irshad Hussain.
“… what religion is meant to do – to bind men to God and thus unfold for them a perspicacious and penetrating insight, An insight that is necessary if society is to apply revelation to one’s era in the most beneficial way possible – an insight that promotes the growth of knowledge across all fields, that leads to spiritual depth, and human connectedness …”
“While ostensibly upholding and defending religion, a strongly ideological approach tends to undermine the deepest most profound aspects of religion. It binds men to specific ways of filtering and judging reality instead of doing what religion is meant to do – to bind men to God and thus unfold for them a perspicacious and penetrating insight..”
By Irshad Hussain AND FAST UNTIL THE ONSET OF NIGHT Fasting in the Month of Ramadan ADDED OCTOBER 17, 2006 Fasting[1] (sawm) …
by Irshad Hussain (reproduced, with his kind permission, from his blog; www.islamfrominside.com ) Man and Ecology: An Islamic Perspective Added October 20, …
“The Qur’an is not words on a page – the Qur’an is not the Qur’an until its verses take shape in the mind, connect and confirm one another, and its unfolding contents settle into the heart…”
(Sura 11: verse 7) – Six days of creation Added February 17, 2008 “And He it is Who created the heavens and …
“By holding back the nafs from its activity and its sustenance, moments of stillness, of silence, are obtained – moments in which self-perception sharpens and deepens and spirit awakens and the (spiritual) form with which God created man begins to unfold itself.”
