Ideals and Realities of Islam by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Ideals and Realities of Islam



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Page: 249
ISBN: 193063711X, 9781930637115


Therefore, my perception and understanding of Islamic ideals and Muslim realities as presented here ought not to be taken as those of Muslims in general. The amoral society: General society has become amoral and lapsed in faith, believing that truth and reality is based on what can be touched, smelled, seen, heard and tasted. Be careful of mixing up the ideal with the reality. One non-Muslim writer once remarked how when talking to Muslims about Islam compared to the West, Muslims take the ideal of Islam and compare it to the reality of the West. In addition, higher education, particularly within the sphere of business and entrepreneurship are very much biased towards 'western theories' and 'ideals', which excludes the possibility that Islamic concepts can form an alternative and unique framework for the practice of business and .. Al-Nisa (The Women) Chapter 4: Verse 31 If you shun the great sins which you have been forbidden to do, We shall efface your failings and cause you to enter. As we will come to see, Muslim jurists operated in largely theoretical spaces, and throughout history have been forced to negotiate their ideals, with realities on the ground. Ideals.and.Realities.of.Islam.pdf. (5) Islam is a way of life that has compatibility and understanding between ideals - ideals and reality, (6) Islam emphasizes the relationship with God (hablum minanallah) and human relations (hablum minan nas). On the whole, Muslims lived up to the Islamic ideals for male-female relations; and they worked. A revised and updated edition of the best-selling introduction to Islam written by one of the foremost scholars in the field. He also wrote Three Muslim Sages, Ideals and Realities in Islam and Science and Civilization in Islam, which he had written while still a student in Harvard.