I don’t normally post things from the AKDN website, but I thought this speech was particularly good at the American University of Cairo.
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islam doesn't speak, muslims do | "the ink of the scholar is worth more than the blood of the martyr" – Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
I don’t normally post things from the AKDN website, but I thought this speech was particularly good at the American University of Cairo.
Technorati Tags: Aga Khan
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I especially like his analogy vis a vis the dissemination and democratization of knowledge:
Followed a bit later by:
Although, it’s interesting to note that this knowledge has now become disembodied. The traveling scholars brought with them their language, their voices, their culture; and imbibed the same from the places they visited. Now, knowledge travels across wires in instants, to be received in purified form, with only the faintest remnant of the knower and his life still attached.
PS, the quote from Hazrat Ali ibn Abi Talib is lovely: