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17/7/2007

Images of Islam

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Vincit Omnia Veritas II,126
Images of Islam
Frithjof Schuon
Initially published in Christianity/Islam: Essays on Esoteric Ecumenicism,
World Wisdom Books (March, 1985)

Islam burst forth in the form of an epic: now, a heroic history is written with the sword, and in a religious context the sword assumes a sacred function; combat becomes an ordeal. The genesis of a religion amounts to the creation of a relatively new moral and spiritual type; in Islam, this type consists in the equilibrium — paradoxical from the Christian point of view — between contemplativeness and combativeness, and then between holy poverty and hallowed sexuality. The Arab — and the man Arabized by Islam — has, so to speak, four poles, namely the desert, the sword, woman and religion. For the contemplative, the four poles become inward: the desert, the sword and woman become so many states or functions of the soul.

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