- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Middle East
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- Nov 07, 2020
For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.
- Islam
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.
- Popular
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- Nov 07, 2020
Compassion is not a popular virtue.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020