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Carrying the message with purity in Surat al-A’raf

Qussai and Elias December 21, 2020 Arabic Compassion Desires Forgiveness Hereafter Humility Idolatry Knowledge Lot Monotheism Obscenity Purifying the soul Quran Surat al-'Alaq Surat al-A'raf Surat al-Nur Surat Qaf Surat Sad Tafsir

“It is a Book that We have revealed to you, so let not your heart be distressed by it,”

Wisdom, the balance between heart, mind, and knowledge

Qussai and Elias December 3, 2016 Anger Desires Emotions Heart Mediums Mind Reason Satan Wisdom

“Verily, it is not eyes that are blinded, but rather the hearts are blinded within their chests.”

The divine medium as the path to lasting reform

Qussai and Elias April 24, 2016 Adam Grant Charity Creation Daniel Kahneman Desires Grassroots Harriet Beecher Stowe Hud Ibn Al-Qayyim Ibrahim Jesus Justice Lot Lust Marshall McLuhan Mediums Moses Paradigm Shift Pharaoh Politics Racism Rationalism Reason Reform Salih Shu'aib Slavery Tribalism Uncle Tom's Cabin Values

“Pharaoh fooled his people and they obeyed him. Verily, they were defiant sinners.”

Natural differences and moral development in Islam

Qussai and Elias September 6, 2015 No Comments Authority Compassion Conflicts Cosmic Orientation Creative Tension Democracy Desires Faith Hellfire Idolatry Justice Lawrence Kohlberg Monotheism Moral Development Natural Law Nature Obedience Paradise Peer Pressure Punishment Racism Reason Self-interest Slavery Society Spiritual Excellence Tolerance Trials Universal Principles War

“Were Allah not to check some people by means of others, the earth would have been corrupted.”

The path to wisdom in natural law

Qussai and Elias July 11, 2015 Aristotle Creation Desires Family Forgiveness Humility Ibrahim Insight Knowledge Muhammad Natural Law Nature Philosophy Physics Purpose Quran Values Wisdom

“The saying of wisdom is the lost property of the believer, so wherever he finds it then he has a right to it.”

Primacy of intellect and the trap of the senses

Qussai and Elias June 7, 2015 No Comments Animals Desires Ibn Al-Jawzi Ibrahim Intellect Intention Islam Monotheism Music Nature Poetry Rationalism Reason Science Senses Values

“Intellect is the only means through which monotheism can be truly practiced.”