Adding philosophical depth to anything and everything
Islam had a tremendously positive affect on the Western world in preserving the knowledge of the ancient Greeks. The Islamic world from present-day Uzbekistan in the east, to present-day Spain in the west, had had access to Aristotle going back to as early as the 800s when they discovered ancient […]
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To understand the heart and mind of a person… To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do. – Kahlil Gibran Note: The gender exclusive language was a product of Gibran’s time. We keep it […]
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Truth and Falsehood AMIR’S FABLE There is an old fable, which tells that Truth and Falsehood went for A swim together, leaving their clothes on shore. Falsehood Coming out of the water first, puts on Truth’s clothes. Truth, being what it is, absolutely refused to wear Falsehood’s clothes, thus remained […]
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Rumi on Religion “I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.” – Rumi
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I have been writing a paper to present at a conference at Cambridge University (an amazing privilege), and was researching the history of Muslim-Christian Relations. Despite what we hear in the media, hatred and violence between Muslims and Christians is not universal and in many times and place, not even […]
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I am not at all religious, but I respect religion and religious people. Honestly, I find religion fascinating–what people believe and how their beliefs motivate their actions. That is part of what separates humans from animals. Humans are belief-motivated beings. Religious belief is one type of belief and like all […]
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Traveling–it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. – Ibn Battuta
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