Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quotes About Teachers

Quotes about: Teachers

• When one talks about being like a dead corpse in the hands of a spiritual teacher it means being able to surrender one's will, specially one's nafs al ammarah, that is a part of our soul which is again a Quranic term, which commands us to evil - we must surrender that. That's what it means. It doesn't make you become part of a cog of a machine.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Teacher, Mean

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• In fact, the machine doesn't have the consciousness we have, the free will that we have, and to surrender one's free will, not in every matter but in spiritual matters, to a spiritual teacher is in a sense a lower level of surrendering one's will to God.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Teacher, Machines

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• Look at Senegal, about 90% of the Muslims in Senegal are Tijani or Qadiri Sufis. Among them, they have very great teachers who have written poems about al-Hallaj, and they have not been killed. In fact, it's Sufism that brought Islam through all of Senegal, right under our noses the last couple of centuries. And you can go down the same line through Indonesia and Malaysia.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Teacher, Couple, Islam

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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