428)Waiting For The Fire To Return To My Belly.......

It's been a busy November what with the Canadian Golden Jubilee Visit among other things, and December is proving to be just as busy. I'm still basking in the afterglow of Toronto's day 1 Darbar as I wait for the fire to return to my belly so I can resume blogging on the link between Science and Religion in Islam.

My signature posts (the quotes I put after my name on every blogpost) have evolved over the life of my blog ever since I started it in March 2006. They are listed below. They focus on God's creation in its totality as being part of the structure of truth, the ultimate nature of which it is the goal of religion to reach. This touches on the fundamental Islamic principle of Monotheism but taken to its logical pinnacle, Monorealism. Knowledge of God's creation means searching for knowledge of the Divine Intellect, which informs and inspires the human intellect. According to Shia Ismaili Muslim cosmologist-philosophers of yesteryear Divine Intellect, or Universal Intellect, or just Intellect, was the only thing to issue forth, by a process of origination, through the Divine Command, from the Absolutely Transcendent God, and everything else in creation is merely an emanation from this Divine Intellect. Everything in the material universe in which we live, move and have our being therefore has Intellect wrapped within it and by learning about the universe, what it is made up of and how it operates, we are really trying to reach knowledge of the Intellect wrapped within it. Aristotle puts it so beautifully and succinctly when he says "All human beings, by their nature, desire to know":


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)

The first and only thing created by God was the Intellect(Aql): Prophet Muhammad(circa 632CE)

The God of the Quran is the One whose Ayats(Signs) are the Universe in which we live, move and have our being:Aga Khan III(1952)

Our interpretation of Islam places enormous value on knowledge. Knowledge is the reflection of faith if it is used properly. Seek out that knowledge and use it properly:Aga Khan IV(2005)

All human beings, by their nature, desire to know(Aristotle, The Metaphysics, a few hundred years BC)

All the above quotes are taken from Blogpost Four Hundred:
http://gonashgo.blogspot.com/2008/09/400blogpost-four-hundred-knowledge.html





Links to the Golden Jubilee Visits(Canada and all other countries) on the much-visited and wildly popular Ismaili Mail website:

Singapore visit, Dec 1-3 2008:
http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/category/jubilee/gj-visits/singapore-visit/

Canada Visit(still unfolding), November 18-25 2008 and December5- 6 2008:
http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/category/jubilee/gj-visits/canada-visit/

Central Asia, October 28-November 7 2008:
http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/category/jubilee/gj-visits/central-asia-visit/

Syria Visit, August 24-29 2008:
http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/category/jubilee/gj-visits/syria-visit/

Portugal Visit, July 10-14 2008:
http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/category/jubilee/gj-visits/portugal-visit/

United Kingdom, July 2-8 2008:
http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/category/jubilee/gj-visits/united-kingdom-visit/

Bangladesh Visit, May 19-22 2008:
http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/category/jubilee/gj-visits/bangladesh-visit/

India Visit, May 12-19 2008:
http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/category/jubilee/gj-visits/india-visit/

West Africa Visit, April 24-May 2 2008:
http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/category/jubilee/gj-visits/west-africa/

USA Visit, April 11-19 2008:
http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/category/jubilee/gj-visits/usa-visit/

Dubai Visit, March 23-27 2008:
http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/category/jubilee/gj-visits/dubai-visit/

Canada Visit as depicted on the Ismaili.org website:
http://www.theismaili.org/cms/622/Canada-visit



Easy Nash

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)
The first and only thing created by God was the Intellect(Aql): Prophet Muhammad(circa 632CE)