Muhammad Umer Toor

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Removing misconceptions about Sufism: An answer

Muhammad Umer Toor posted an article on - Jan 22, 2010, 5:40 am
Shaykh Nuh Mim Keller writes in his article, The Place of Tasawwuf in Traditional Islam, which was first recommended to me when i became interested in entering sufism: "What about the bad Sufis we read about, who contravene the teachings of Islam? The answer is that there are two meanings of Sufi: ...
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Laughte the Cure

Muhammad Umer Toor posted an article on - Jan 22, 2010, 4:35 am
r Harvard Businness gives a tip on how to manage our pet peeves, one of the ways is: Laugh. If you can get some distance from your pet peeve, you're more likely to see the humor in it. When you get annoyed, try to observe how silly your anger may seem. How true...! Full of fun as well... Similarly, ...
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Class ka Shehzada

Muhammad Umer Toor posted an article on - Jan 22, 2010, 12:34 am
He, my cousin, claims: Mein class ka Shehzada hoon! (I'm the Prince of my class.)
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The Certainty of our Running away from Death the Certain

Muhammad Umer Toor posted an article on - Jan 22, 2010, 12:25 am
Why we run away from something too certain as death? I don't. But for large period of my life, I did. "More certain is death than even taxes." Even so, why?
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For lovers

Muhammad Umer Toor posted an article on - Jan 21, 2010, 11:46 am
(Minus moderns and Urdu only :) Hasil jo huay dard-e-mohabbat k lazaiez Mein bhool gaya 'aish-o-'ishrat k lazaiez *   *   * Parday nazar pay kasrat-e-khobi k par gaye Chaha magar na dekh sakay hum Jamal-e-doost *   *   * (I recited following two verses to my friends on campus one cold m...
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Schuon on Animals

Muhammad Umer Toor posted an article on - Jan 21, 2010, 8:30 am
Most animals are horizontal, since Their homeland is not other than this Earth; But man’s essential stance is vertical; Free will to choose Salvation proves his worth. Nobility some animals possess: The genius of their symbol lives in them. They can be more than a corrupted man; Only their possibi...
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The Seven States of Being

Muhammad Umer Toor posted an article on - Jan 21, 2010, 8:21 am
Courtesy: Frithjof Schuon blog.
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'The Quest of Companionship'

Muhammad Umer Toor posted an article on - Jan 20, 2010, 9:50 pm
Image source While I's sitting with some my friends and our professor on campus, my professor asked me to read out to him verse # 28 of Surah Al-Kahf, from my pocket size English copy of noble Qur'an. It's a single verse, yet from any point-of-view it is a miracle for its expression and the message ...
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Nation-state Idoltary

Muhammad Umer Toor posted an article on - Jan 20, 2010, 4:32 am
State is only a mean to provide welfare to its people, where education is free, food and medical services are given at least at a minimum level for people to exist, etc. Read Muhammad Asad's Principles of State and Government in Islam and you'll come to know that an Islamic state does all such and o...
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Muhammad: his life based on the earliest sources

Muhammad Umer Toor posted an article on - Jan 19, 2010, 10:04 pm
Muhammad: his life based on the earliest sources by Martin Lings ('Abu Bakr Siraj-ud-Din - may allah bless his soul)... Not to sound trite and unimaginative, it's a wonderful book. Written in the best type of English, the top. It's not any product of Orientalism - far, far, far from it. I find ...
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