tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40189587894871724612024-09-20T16:41:46.480-07:00“But he cried through the darkness (saying): La ilaha illa Anta [none has the right to be worshipped but You (O, Allah), Glorified (and Exalted) be You above all that (evil) they associate with You]. Truly, I have been of the wrongdoers.” So We answered his call, and delivered him from the distress. And thus We do deliver the believers.” (Al-Anbiyya 21:87-88)Ibn Rashidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08976062651287100271noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4018958789487172461.post-91488646890285390332007-06-23T10:21:00.000-07:002007-06-23T10:22:40.707-07:00<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">There are two kinds of intelligence: One acquired,<br />as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts<br />from books and from what the teacher says,<br />collecting information from the traditional sciences<br />as well as from the new sciences.<br /><br />With such intelligence you rise in the world.<br />You get ranked ahead or behind others<br />in regard to your competence in retaining<br />information. You stroll with this intelligence<br />in and out of fields of knowledge, getting always more<br />marks on your preserving tablets.<br /><br />There is another kind of tablet, one<br />already completed and preserved inside you.<br />A spring overflowing its springbox. A freshness<br />in the center of the chest. This other intelligence<br />does not turn yellow or stagnate. It's fluid,<br />and it doesn't move from outside to inside<br />through the conduits of plumbing-learning.<br /><br />This second knowing is a fountainhead<br />from within you, moving out.<br /><br /><em>Mathnawi IV:1960-1968</em></span>Ibn Rashidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08976062651287100271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4018958789487172461.post-28999255577456110792007-06-23T09:30:00.000-07:002007-06-23T10:02:55.643-07:00Assalam Alaykum<br /><br />Yesterday I decided to start a fresh new blog and get back into blogging.<br /><br />I have now completly abandoned and divorced the one on aol and the one on my domain.<br /><br />I will post some of the most discussed topics back here.<br /><br />:)Ibn Rashidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08976062651287100271noreply@blogger.com0