Coronaspection - Interview with Seyyed Hossein Nasr
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Prof. Seyyed Hossein Nasr is Muslim theologian, leader of a Sufi community and one of the most prominent Islamic scholars worldwide, who teaches at George Washington University. He brings a classical Muslim philosophical and mystical perspective to the realities created by Corona. Tragedies are opportunities for regaining perspective and therefore as a form of grace. Fear of God leads us to run back to God. Fear can be positive by returning us to the abiding reality. Corona places us before the limits of our knowledge and invites us to reexamine how we have over-trusted science and technology. Separation from others forces us to a spiritual retreat. We are born alone and we die alone. Going into retreat is a practice of death, to be alone with God. Having been nurtured by divine presence equips you to better serve society. Prof. Nasr walks us through an exercise of how to be with oneself. Delving into the depth of oneself, we discover the inner being of the other is nothing other than ourselves.
Table of contents:
00:19 Introduction
00:40 Is Corona affecting you?
01:34 Dealing with Fear
05:30 Is Covid-19 a punishment?
11:20 Are the wrong people getting punished?
14:03 Spiritual retreat and connection to society
19:53 Recommendations for the lockdown
23:57 Pointers for learning to be with yourself
28:12 The other is none other than myself
30:08 Dealing with Loss
36:14 Can everyone live loss as a positive thing?
43:45 Different religions are different paths to the mountaintop - perrenialism and relations between religions
1:01:07 Prayer
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Dear friends your comments was great God bless you.
Jazakallah
May God fill your heart with divine joy, peace and love. Such an incredible human being! Love and respect to Dr. Nasr from Kabul, Afghanistan 🇦🇫 ❤️ 🌷☘️
Dr. Nasr is a treasure for Muslims.
God bless Dr Seyyed Hossein Nasr, a man of Truth and goodness
Him whom God loves most, he tries most.
Always a pleasure seeing Dr. Nasr. My life long teacher. May God bless you. Great interview.
One of the greats. Humbled to have met him.
May God grant you long life. You have been source of knowledge and direction for me.
@ryanhunter2987
3 жыл бұрын
Ameen! For me as well.
@dragoflamer786
3 жыл бұрын
Ameen, God bless him
When he was 23, and I was 17, I met Seyyed Hossein Nasr in a classroom, at Harvard University, 1956. With less than a sentence from him, I believed in God; my life was changed forever; I became a Muslim, and followed I'm in becoming a disciple of HIS master, Frithjof Schuon. Now I'm 81 and he must be 87. I see a treasure chest, full of knowledge AND wisdom. He gave me a Real Life, an entry into Truth: therefore, I would forgive absolutely anything, and be grateful forever. It is still ESSENTIAL for all those who admire him, as do I, to realize that he is one of the two main successors of Frithjof Schuon; and he is he only disciple of HIS master, whose actual life was affected by his master. This is exceedingly delicate; but it is necessary to understand Frithjof Schuon and the relationship between the two men, to situate the great Dr. Nasr correctly. Moereover, everyone seeking Truth, needs to understand a spiritual mystery which is in the life and doctrines of Frithjof Schuon. To situate his two main successors, Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Martin Lings (as well as all others) everyone should read at least the home page on this site: frithjofschuon.wordpress.com
@milanspak9122
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this comment! I live in Slovakia and I thank God I was blessed by His Mercy in the form of getting to know Perennialist school by the books, they had written. Unfortunately i was not lucky (I was born in 1977) to meet any of the masters and sages you have mentioned personally. And if I have to thank internet for just one thing it is this opportunity to meet them in their lectures recorded on youtube channel. I would love to meet them and once I tried to meet Mr. Nasr in Washington but due to some circumstances it was not realized, but at least I am in the touch with other of his followers. Some years ago I started to translate books of F. Schuon, but it is so hard to publish them here. If God wishes one day they will be published (Inshallah) and their saving wisdom will find its readers even here in my small country. Thank you for comment again, it is very kind to meet people of this kind. Milan
@syedasaba3717
3 жыл бұрын
amazing
@milanspak9122
3 жыл бұрын
@@maudemurray www.sacredweb.com/journals/sw8.html Great Articles which illuminates the controversies (that are false): Frithjof Schuon: Providence without Paradox by Michael Fitzgerald A friend and legal representative of the celebrated metaphysician, the late Frithjof Schuon, responds to Patrick Ringgenberg's criticisms of Schuon in Sacred Web 7, arguing that there is no inconsistency between Schuon's personality and his message. Frithjof Schuon: Memories and Anecdotes by Catherine Schuon Catherine Schuon, wife of the late Frithjof Schuon, provides some recollections of her 50 years with the Shaykh. Her intimate reminiscences of this teacher, who taught and demonstrated the "greatness" which "is the necessary condition for the return to God," indirectly responds to his
@maudemurray
3 жыл бұрын
@@milanspak9122 I won't read that. Michael Fitzgerald in a first prize liar. Until very recently, I have nicely veiled him - calling him "Sidi Xyz" or leaving him nameless. Why? Because he's alive, has a family and is a very old friend. He's also so affable, realistic and likeable sometimes that I keep hoping he will change. He handled the court case against Frithjof Schuon. He had us all lie, under oath, condu...oh it's endless. He has an air of greased sincerity about him too. He's the lying lawyer who "took care" of anyone who was thought to be a critic of Frithjof Schuon. I try to have Islamic good manners, aadaab, with everyone; but he has gone too far. When he was younger, he was a VERY fine person; but like a few others I've known in a long lifetime - he changed! My book is full of "character studies;" but I pray that he may reverse his course!
@maudemurray
3 жыл бұрын
Lying was one of the terrible things around Frithjof Schuon. When I first arrived in Switzerland, in 1966, Catherine Schuon told me somethings to introduce "the Shaykh" to me. One thing she said was that he had no respect for Truth on this plane of daily life, and would lie if it weren't for government rules or ways one would get caught. She explained the reasons which sounded perfectly reasonable at the time. (Esoteric Tariqah in a hostile modern environment). She sounded perfectly reasonable, profound and intelligent! I thought no more about it, until there were so many lies around that the society was "sick." I had no idea what Allah decreed, what the Sunnah was. What "Muhammadian" meant. This is all in my book, and is part of a grand drama...very complicated and full of lies mixed with beauty. The devil got loose in some un-islamic ideas! Shaykh Abdul Qadir al-Jilani wrote about exactly what could and did happen if someone on the spiritual path left the decrees of Allah, Who said, "I decree what pleased Me!" Frithjof Schuon made his own decrees; and astaghfiru Llaah, it took me decades to know the difference!
Thank you a lot sir. God bless you. ربنا يبارك في عمر سيد حسين نصر .
Beautiful. Insightful talk indeed. Thank You, Sheikh Nasr and the Host too
Out standing. What a gift of grace and mercy. Ameen.
A truly remarkable figure in the world of religions. Thank you for bringing us this amazing content.
Thank you for your thought provoking questions Rabbi. Thank you for this series.
Thank you for such great video!
Wonderful, I wish I had seen this sooner during lockdown. Thank you for sharing this wisdom with us
I am really grateful to the two thinkers for the beautiful video
Incredible interview - deeply insight and crux of existence he has revealed to the world. I also salute Dr. Nasr.
Thank you to both of you. Two precious, good and beautiful souls. Allah/God bless you and all of us.
Sometimes some speeches feel as remedy.... very much insightful thanks
Thank you for such kind of deep dialog.
Love this. Speaks to my heart.thankyou
Adoro o entrevistado. É um filósofo na sua imperfeição. Nascemos sozinhos e morremos sozinhos. A Humanidade é universal. :-) Poderia mas não posso. Sou eu.
Great interview ! Prof Nasr has solutions to managing current Covid 19 events , from Islamic mystic traditions and I am convinced.
Brilliant!!!
😍
به به عالی
29:51 Entire philosophy of life explained here
Why the latex gloves?
Connect***
Bill gates actually predicted it
@justwatermoving
Жыл бұрын
I encourage you to look much more closely at what you assume was a prediction, if you haven't already. 🙏
تو رو خدا شما کجایید مرد بزرگ ادرس ایمیل اتون چیه راه ارتباطی با شما اخه چیه من خیلی شما را سرچ میکنم ولی هیچ ادرسی از شما پیدا نمیکنم
@ghartemani
Жыл бұрын
ایشان در واشنگتون دی سی آمریکا زندگی میکنند.