Islam, the RELIGION OF LOVE?: Love Talk and the Golden Rule

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[@inhumanhyena]

Beautiful talk. People often forget the value of "true love".

[@FRUIANDISES]

This is so beautiful. I wish the pace was slightly slower to digest all this because it is so refreshing but also so packed with information

[@DrJavadTHashmi]

Thank you. Unfortunately, I speak 100 miles a minute.

[@FRUIANDISES]

Thank you so much for all your work ! It is amazing ! I just discovered your channel and binge watching ! May you be rewarded abundantly

[@yahia1000]

​@@DrJavadTHashmihey what is your stance on homosexaulity and abortion,and how do I contact you

[@theweirdofengland]

Beautiful speech

[@SpondonIAftab]

How do we see these sermons in person?

[@DrJavadTHashmi]

I give them in LA.

[@M_A_R_I_A_M399_5]

حب لاخيك ما تحبه لنفسك

[@aqm5239]

This is the type of message that we all need. Thank you. I disagree with your views on hadeeth but thank you for speaking about how our tradition is much greater than a textual, legal tradition and contains profound artistic works and expressions, and great philosophical and cultural literature as well.

[@zakymalik6920]

Some knowledge of the Islamo-Iranian mysticism, called Sufism, is certainly helpful for understanding the poetry of most Persian poets, including Hafez. The bulk of the Persian poetry is loaded with Sufic expressions and mystical concepts, and Hafez's Divan is a good example. At the heart of Sufism, which some orthodox Moslems prefer to call Erfan (Gnosticism) because of their differences with the Sufis, lies the idea that God is the only Reality, the origin and destination of all things, of whom the whole universe is but a manifestation. Therefore, God is the source of love and beauty. All forms of love are different instances of one Love, the Love of God. God is the only Beloved and the cause of all forms of love. All the beauties of nature and humanity are different manifestations of one Divine Beauty. The mystical poets' approach to God, therefore, is through love and beauty. Hafez is a lover and an admirer of beauty in all its forms, either the beauty of a girl, a boy, a rose, a nightingale, the spring, or the whole nature. He is always in love, and his only goal is union with the beloved. In the mystical union, the lover becomes one with the beloved. In fact, the lover never had an independent existence; because God, the Beloved, is the only Reality that exists, and all else are like mirrors reflecting his Face. In order to conform their philosophy of oneness to Islam, the Sufis refer to the Qur'anic verses such as, "Whichever direction you turn, you see the Face of God." The realization that God is hidden behind all forms of beauty and love results in a state of overwhelming joy or ecstasy. It is to this ecstasy which most Persian mystical poets, including Hafez, often, but not always, refer when they use the imagery of drunkenness, such as wine, tavern, Saqi (cupbearer), wine-dealer, tavern-keeper, the Magians' Pir (Nestor), cup of wine, or when they use the metaphors of love, such as the relation between two human lovers, a nightingale and a rose, or a moth and a candle. Hafez is a lover who sees beauty and creates beauty. A beautiful poem is like a beautiful flower. Both delight us with their beautiful forms and evoke noble feelings in us... Just as we normally enjoy the beauty of a flower without regard to its usefulness or meaning, so should we consider a poem. A poem may teach us a lesson, a philosophy, a morale, and there are many poems that do so. However, to instruct is not the main function of a poem. Poetry is an art, like all other arts, and its main function is creation of beauty. It is our response to this beauty that gives meaning to poetry. Each of Hafez's ghazals is a work of art, and a masterpiece indeed. The Divan of Hafez is a beautiful paradise and a source of joy for those who roam in it. Hafez sees beauty everywhere and in everything and represents it in his poetry. Source - Divan i Hafiz (Reza Sabri Translation) [Introduction]

[@zakymalik6920]

@@Malik-oe6md by that I mean sufis of Iran

[@zakymalik6920]

@@Malik-oe6md Shaykh Abu Hamid Ghazali, Shaykh Ahmad Ghazali, Shaykh Abu Said al khair etc

[@zakymalik6920]

@@Malik-oe6md Look compare to Persians how many Arabs are into tassawuf and exclude north Africans from Arabs

[@zakymalik6920]

@@Malik-oe6md ????

[@zakymalik6920]

@@Malik-oe6md look I've mentioned source writer Reza saberi was Iranian go ask him why he used that stop bothering me

[@M_A_R_I_A_M399_5]

الله هو اللطيف الودود ..الرؤوف الحليم ...الشكور الرحيم ..الرحمن الرحيم

[@wanderingsoul2758]

What should we do if our spirtual connection is weak after spirtual abuse

[@Oxygen11115]

00:58 " You said for these scholars ( ie zamakshari etc ), we cant "speak" about us loving God. thats not true at all, you can speak this way, and they themselves spoke that way, only difference being that the meaning in relation to God is obviously different as he explained.

[@DrJavadTHashmi]

That's pretty much what I said. You're being pedantic.

[@iyepmamun2315]

Rational religion is much more important than religion of love.

[@SpondonIAftab]

You sound like you didn't have much love in your life. I love you man

[@383564]

agreed...this feels alot like the christian love talk

[@jj-yi1ne]

do you guys do traditional sunni prayers in your jummah or just sermons like christians. i dont mind if you guys do. im looking forward for modernist islam

[@DrJavadTHashmi]

Very traditional. The sermon is edited with the Arabic sections removed for KZbin.

[@Muhammad80008]

I have big problem that people who often use word love, very often parody it (make hypocrytical caricathure from it), I do not know you, but from my experincies most of the time it is like that and groups advocate for “love“ also advocate for genocides for example, it is not nonse it is for real like that