Frithjof Schuon Archive
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Understanding Islam: A New Translation with Selected Letters
This renowned book, which has been translated into over a dozen languages, has attracted much attention over the years. Prof. Seyyed Hossein Nasr says that it is Schuon’s “most important work on Islam and [from] among the books written by a Westerner on Islam, [this is] the one most universally accepted by Muslims.”
Featured Poems
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-How can we?
How can we escape the demon time?Leave the Fates to their spinning,And remain where the Most High has placed you:In the golden Now of God-remembrance.
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-Compulsion
You scarcely feel the pettiness of your compulsions —You glide along as if drawn on a stringThrough space and time, and cannot do otherwise —You have yourselves falsified greatness.It is true: you are free, you do what you will;Yet petty compulsions are woven Into...
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-Piety
Sense of the sacred and devotion before God;The fear of the servant is not the same as this.God accepts it from the one who practices it —It has been called: the obedience of a corpse.So ask not who loves God the most —Nor whom God loves more than others;...
Autumn Leaves & The Ring-Small-Greatness
The best way to become falsified and smallIs this desire: to be the greatest one on earth —And to forget that greatnessCan only be a ray of the Divine Nature.One is often obliged to hear that pride is the sinOf the sage, who deems his wisdom divine.Only he is vain who...
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