Shia Strength: ï¿½ Ali Valiyollah Group ï¿½ The Interior Life in Islam

Thursday, December 24, 2009

ï¿½ Ali Valiyollah Group ï¿½ The Interior Life in Islam

In the name of Allah, the most Merciful, the most Beneficent

The Interior Life in Islam

Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Vol. III, Nos. 2 & 3

"O thou soul which are at peace, return unto thy Lord,
with gladness that is thine in Him and His in thee.
Enter thou among My slaves. Enter thou My Paradise."
(Quran - LXXXIX; 27-30 (trans. by M. Lings.)

The function of religion is to bestow order upon
human life and to establish an "outward" harmony
upon whose basis man can return inwardly to his
Origin by means of the journey toward the "interior"
direction. This universal function is especially true of
Islam, this last religion of humanity, which is at once
a Divine injunction to establish order in human society
and within the human soul and at the same time to
make possible the interior life, to prepare the soul
to return unto its Lord and enter the Paradise which
is none other than the Divine Beatitude.

http://www.al-islam.org/al-serat/interior-nasr.htm