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“ The gnostic is Muslim in that his whole being is surrendered to God; he has no separate individual existence of his own. He is like the birds and the flowers in his yielding to the Creator; like them, like all the elements of the cosmos, he reflects the Divine to his own degree. He reflects it actively, however, they passively; his participation is a conscious one. ”

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When man penetrates the mysteries of Nature, the facts of Nature become transparent symbols, revealing the divine energies and the angelic state which fallen man has lost, and which he may recover only for a moment, as when he is enraptured by the beauty of music or of a lovely face. At such moments man forgets his limited self, his individualistic dream, and participates in the cosmic dream, thus becoming freed from the prison of his own carnal soul.

~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr

All spiritual techniques seek to awaken fallen man from the dream in which he lives : he dreams continuously of individual state of being, and of the many forms through which the external world presents itself to him; he builds for himself a paradise of illusions, so as to forget the absence of God. To recover the vision of the spiritual world, the soul of man must die to this dream, this ceaseless flow of images which fallen man regards as normal, everyday state of his consciousness.

~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr

In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were fine or industrial or minor. It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.

~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The theory of evolution also had a very great effect in alienating science from religion and creating a world in which one could go about studying the wonders of creation without ever having a sense of wonder in the religious sense of that term.

~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr