323)A sampling of my most recent comments and articles published on the main Ismaili Mail website and its Spirit and Life Blog; Quotes of Aga Khan IV

It (Surah of Light from the Quran) tells us that the oil of the blessed olive tree lights the lamp of understanding, a light that belongs neither to the East nor West. We are to give this light to all. In that spirit, all that we learn will belong to the world and that too is part of the vision I share with you. (Aga Khan IV, Speech, 25 Sept. 1979)

Above all, following the guidance of the Holy Quran, there was freedom of enquiry and research. The result was a magnificent flowering of artistic and intellectual activity throughout the Ummah (Aga Khan IV, Speech @AKU, 16 March 1983)

One of the first and greatest research centres, the Bayt al-Hikmah established in Baghdad in 830, led Islam in translating philosophical and scientific works from Greek, Roman, Persian and Indian classics. By the art of translation, learning was assimilated from other civilizations. (Aga Khan IV, Speech @ AKU, 16 March 1983)

The Muslim world, once a remarkable bastion of scientific and humanist knowledge, a rich and self-confident cradle of culture and art, has never forgotten its past(Aga Khan IV, 27th May 1994, Cambridge, Massachusets, U.S.A.)

The great Muslim philosopher al-Kindi wrote eleven hundred years ago, "No one is diminished by the truth, rather does the truth ennoble us all"(Aga Khan IV, 27th May 1994, Cambridge, Massachusets, U.S.A.)



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http://spiritandlife.wordpress.com/

Main Ismaili Mail website:

http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/tabish-bhimani-aspires-to-communicate-the-diversity-that-exists-in-the-muslim-world/

http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/stamps-commemorating-ismaili-community-in-portugal/#comments

http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/rahim-moloo-has-made-it-to-the-semi-finals-for-the-canadas-next-great-prime-minister-contest/#comments

http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/calgary-flames-flag-hoisted-up-at-uhuru-peak-tanzania-by-almoonir-dewji/#comments

http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/aga-khan-historic-cities-programme-photo-collage/#comments

http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/lisbon-portugal-masterpieces-of-islamic-art-from-the-aga-khan-museum-collection/#comments

http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/faith-gather-in-hope-festival-of-eid-ul-adha/#comments

http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/calgarian-hits-spiritual-peak-almoonir-dewji-and-37-member-group-of-canadians-tackled-kilimanjaro-to-raise-money-for-save-the-children/#comments

http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/fatimid-rock-crystal-ewer/#comments

http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/places-of-worship-tour-of-the-ismaili-centre-and-jamatkhana/#comments

http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/a-quick-trip-to-cairo-and-beyond-from-paul-levy/#comments

http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/pumping-up-desert-agriculture/#comments

http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/bridges-that-unite-exhibition/#comments

http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/diversity-and-sisterhood-in-islam-an-imaginative-example-shared-by-easy-nash/#comments

http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/dictionary-of-islam-by-azim-nanji/#comments

http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/2008-berkeley-prize-dedicated-to-the-aga-khan-award-for-architecture-2/#comments

http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/the-amazing-faiths-project/#comments

http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/creative-syria/#comments

http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/the-aga-khan-museum-at-mindanao-state-university/#comment-21955



Spirit and Life Blog(also part of the Ismaili Mail website):

http://spiritandlife.wordpress.com/2007/10/12/inseparable-nature-of-faith-and-world/#comment-155

http://spiritandlife.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/shia-islam/#comments

http://spiritandlife.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/science-and-belief/

http://spiritandlife.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/the-creation-according-to-quran-updated/

http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/our-list-of-websites-blogs/

http://spiritandlife.wordpress.com/2007/12/25/ikhwan-al-safa/#comments

http://spiritandlife.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/abu-yakub-al-sijistani-intellectual-missionary/

http://spiritandlife.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/ibn-al-haytham/#comments

http://spiritandlife.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/there-is-no-fundamental-division-between-the-spiritual-and-the-material/#comments

http://spiritandlife.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/nasir-khusraw-1004-1060/

http://spiritandlife.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/quotes-of-aga-khan/

http://spiritandlife.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/islamic-humanism-by-dr-noor-gillani/#comments

http://spiritandlife.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/traces-of-the-calligrapher-islamic-calligraphy-in-practice/#comments

http://spiritandlife.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/intellectual-search/#comments

http://spiritandlife.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/science-and-belief-2/#comments

http://spiritandlife.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/quotes-about-the-concept-of-imam/#comments

http://spiritandlife.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/astrolabe/#comments

http://spiritandlife.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/splendor-of-the-fatimids/#comments

http://spiritandlife.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/lunar-crater/#comments

http://spiritandlife.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/the-%e2%80%98islamic%e2%80%99-in-islamic-education-assessing-the-discourse/


Posts and comments made before January 9th 2008:

http://gonashgo.blogspot.com/2008/01/281a-sampling-of-most-recent-comments-i.html



Easy Nash aka easynash

The Qur'an itself repeatedly recommends Muslims to become better educated in order better to understand God's creation: Aga Khan IV(2007)
The Quran tells us that signs of Allah's Sovereignty are found in the contemplation of His Creation: Aga Khan IV(2007)
This notion of the capacity of the human intellect to understand and to admire the creation of Allah will bring you happiness in your everyday lives: Aga Khan IV(2007)
Islam, eminently logical, placing the greatest emphasis on knowledge, purports to understand God's creation: Aga Khan IV(2006)