"I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey."

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Feisal Abdul Rauf

#Philosophy Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Islamic Quotes

“Know this! They (false prophets) are the judgment of God upon a wicked defiled people who although they have a knowledge of God they do not want him. And so God sends them the teachers that they themselves desire.”
“There's something whimsical, satirical, and silly about British humor, which Americans have always enjoyed, and lots of us come over here because we have an audience of people who enjoy it.”
“Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and mass culture.”
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”

Source : Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2009). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.94, The Floating Press
“Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.”
“As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse.”
“Death is better than slavery.”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child (2011). “The Deeper Wrong: Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.96, Cambridge University Press
“Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience.”

Source : "What’s the Matter With MOOCs?". www.chronicle.com. July 6, 2012.

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