“The mystical state is the opposing alternative to the experience of alienation. Against the disorientation, decathexis and desensitization. That I suggest characterize modernity and post-modernity, the emerging form of life in a mystical society is characterised by unification rather than dispersion; holistic rationality rather than functional specialization; release of historically pent up emotion rather than cool instrumental calculation…"
Philip Wexler - Mystical Society
Monday 30 April 2012
Monday 23 April 2012
El-Ghazali
"You posses only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck."
El-Ghazali
El-Ghazali was an influential Philosopher and Sufi. Ghazali has sometimes been referred to by historians as the single most influential Muslim after the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Monday 16 April 2012
Omar Khayyám
"The secret must be kept from all non-people:
The mystery must be hidden from all idiots.
See what you do to people -
The Eye has to be hidden from all men."
Omar Khayyám
Omar Khayyám was a Persian polymath: philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He also wrote treatises on mechanics, geography, mineralogy, music, climatology and theology.
Monday 9 April 2012
The Holy Qur’an - Ar-Ra'd " The Thunder" (13):11
“…Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.”
The Holy Qur’an Sura: Ar-Ra'd " The Thunder" (13):11
Sahih International Translation
Monday 2 April 2012
El-Ghazali
"People oppose things because they are ignorant of them."
El-Ghazali
El-Ghazali was an influential Philosopher and Sufi. Ghazali has sometimes been referred to by historians as the single most influential Muslim after the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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