Mawlana Hazar Imam: “As we use our intellect to gain new knowledge about Creation, we come to see even more profoundly the depth and breadth of its mysteries”

“Scientific pursuits, philosophic inquiry and artistic endeavour are all seen as the response of the faithful to the recurring call of the Qur’an to ponder the creation as a way to understand Allah’s benevolent majesty.“
Mawlana Hazar Imam, London, UK, 19 October 2003
Speech

“The Quran tells us that signs of Allah’s Sovereignty are found in the contemplation of His Creation – in the heavens and the earth, the night and the day, the clouds and the seas, the winds and the waters.”
Mawlana Hazar Imam, Kampala, Uganda, 22 August 2007
Speech

“As we use our intellect to gain new knowledge about Creation, we come to see even more profoundly the depth and breadth of its mysteries… Just think for example what might lie below the surfaces of celestial bodies all across the far flung reaches of our universe. What we feel, even as we learn, is an ever-renewed sense of wonder, indeed, a powerful sense of awe – and of Divine inspiration.”
Mawlana Hazar Imam, Ottawa, Canada, 6 December 2008
Speech

“… our youth must be in a position to acquire, in addition to modern science, a knowledge of the glorious past of our religion. Without a sincere and deep but unobtrusive and charitable faith, without that childlike feeling of dependence on the Unseen Power of which the visible universe is but a sign, our youth can never develop their highest and noblest faculties, their spiritual and emotional qualities.”
Mawlana Sultan Mohamed Shah, 29 January 1910, Delhi, India
Inaugural Address to the All India Muslim League Third Annual Session
(K.K. Aziz, Aga Khan III: Selected Speeches and Writings of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, Kegan Paul, 1998, Vol I p 328)

“Once man has … comprehended the essence of existence there remains for him the duty, since he knows the absolute of his own soul, of making for himself a direct path which will constantly lead his individual soul to and bind it with the universal Soul of which the the Universe, as much of it as we perceive with our limited vision, is one of the infinite manifestations.”
Mawlana Sultan Muhammad Shah
The Memoirs of Aga Khan, Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1954, p 175

Image: You Tube – From Earth to Multiverse

From Earth to Multiverse (You Tube – 6 minutes)

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