Mir Damad Quotes on Knowledge
Mir Damad (d. 1631) was the senior scholar of the School of Isfahan that flourished under the Safavid restoration of Twelver Shi'i learning in seventeenth-century Iran, and the teacher of the more famous Mulla Sadra. The principal philosophical contribution is the doctrine of perpetual creation (huduth dahri) — the analysis of the relation between the eternal divine reality and the temporally created world through the introduction of a third ontological mode (dahr) intermediate between eternity and time — that Mir Damad developed against the Avicennan and Suhrawardian alternatives. The framework drew together the Peripatetic tradition descending from al-Farabi and Avicenna, the Illuminationist (ishraqi) tradition founded by Suhrawardi, and the Twelver Shi'i theological inheritance, and shaped the subsequent development of Iranian Islamic philosophy through Mulla Sadra and his successors.
Quotes
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Attributed to Mir Damad:
“True knowledge is the soul's union with the intelligibles.”
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Attributed to Mir Damad:
“Reason and revelation are two faces of one truth.”
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“This Community is destined to progress. This seed is destined to grow and become a great tree.”
Persecution of Ahmadi Muslims: Steadfastness and Prayers , Friday Sermon, December 23rd, 2016 -
“Persecution of Ahmadi Muslims: Steadfastness and Prayers , Friday Sermon, December 23rd, 2016”
This Community is destined to progress. This seed is destined to grow and become a great tree. -
“Khilafat-e-Ahmadiyya , Friday Sermon May 24th, 2013”
When Allah has decided to take the message to all the corners of earth, who on earth can prevent this progress. -
“We should weigh out the consequences of everything we do, we should consider whether what we are doing is permissible or not. Habit has a big part in reformation of practice.”
Self-reformation: Breaking Bad Habits , Friday Sermon December 20th, 2013 -
“Self-reformation: Breaking Bad Habits , Friday Sermon December 20th, 2013”
We should weigh out the consequences of everything we do, we should consider whether what we are doing is permissible or not. Habit has a big part in reformation of practice. -
“Our job is to hold fast to the rope of Allah with patience.”
God's Help is Needed to Attain Righteousness , Friday Sermon October 28th, 2011 -
“The Islamic Way of Celebrating the New Year , Friday sermon December 30th, 2016”
In today's world when there is impudence everywhere then keeping oneself protected from it is also a form of jihad .