It is appropriate to begin the new year and the new decade elaborating on a post made by ISMAILI MAIL in the waning days of 2009: their Top 15 most visited Posts for 2009:
http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/years-top-posts-at-ismailimail-2009/
Yours truly Easy Nash featured in two, perhaps three, of those Top 15 most visited Posts:
1)ISMAILI MAIL'S Number 7 Top Post came straight from my Blog and garnered 3134 views; it is an offshoot of Blogpost Four Hundred, the cardinal post on my Blog on the link between Science and Religion in Islam and the high octane fuel that powers my Blog:
Golden Jubilee Quotes of Aga Khan IV:
http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/golden-jubilee-quotes-of-aga-khan-iv/
http://gonashgo.blogspot.com/2009/01/434golden-jubilee-quotes-of-aga-khan-iv.html
http://gonashgo.blogspot.com/2009/08/500blogpost-five-hundred-is-blogpost.html
http://gonashgo.blogspot.com/2008/09/400blogpost-four-hundred-knowledge.html
2)ISMAILI MAIL'S Number 13 Top Post was an online interview I conducted on behalf of Ismaili Mail of Canadian Conservative Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Hon. Jason Kenney during his visit to Humayun's Tomb in New Delhi, India in January 2009. It garnered 1525 views:
Minister Jason Kenney visits Humayun’s Tomb in New Delhi, India
http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/conservative-minister-jason-kenney-visits-humayuns-tomb-in-new-delhi-india/
The Minister Jason Kenney collection on Ismaili Mail:
http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/?s=jason+kenney&searchbutton=go%21
3)ISMAILI MAIL'S Number 2 Top Post garnered a blockbusting 4164 views and reflects Canada's Stephen Harper Conservative government's ongoing love affair with His Highness Aga Khan IV, 49th hereditary Imam of the Shia Nizari Ismaili Muslims:
Government of Canada will be seeking to extend ‘Honorary Citizenship of Canada’ to His Highness the Aga Khan
http://ismailimail.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/government-of-canada-will-be-seeking-to-extend-honorary-citizenship-of-canada-to-his-highness-the-aga-khan/
To really see the full impact of this ongoing love affair you need to read this post on my Blog:
The Conservative Government Of Prime Minister Stephen Harper Has Consistently Shown The Utmost Deference And Respect To His Highness The Aga Khan.
http://gonashgo.blogspot.com/2009/06/486the-conservative-government-of-prime.html
Related Post:
A Tribute To ISMAILI MAIL'S Publisher; My Final Post Of 2009; My Final Post Of The Decade. http://gonashgo.blogspot.com/2009/12/537a-tribute-to-ismaili-mails-publisher.html
Easy Nash
http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blog/science_and_religion_in_islam_the_link/
http://gonashgo.blogspot.com/2009/08/500blogpost-five-hundred-is-blogpost.html
http://gonashgo.blogspot.com/2009/03/453a-blog-constructed-within.html
In Shia Islam, intellect is a key component of faith. Intellect allows us to understand the creation of God: Aga Khan IV(2008)
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 Holy Qu'ran's encouragement to study nature and the physical world around us gave the original impetus to scientific enquiry among Muslims: Aga Khan IV(1985)
The first and only thing created by God was the Intellect(Aql): Prophet Muhammad(circa 632CE)