There is a knowing pain in the soul and it does not go away and one of the tragic aspects of human existence is that when we remove God from our search..Whatever we call God; if the Buddhists talk about Ultimate Reality or Ultimate Concern, this is still coming of approximately our understanding of God..God is the Ultimate Concern...If we remove the Ultimate Concern from our lives, we have to find substitutes...This is human nature..We will find substitutes to fill that hollow space within man because man is essentially a hollow being...
-Sheikh Hamza Yousuf describing the nature (fitrah) of man in the documentary Al Ghazali: Alchemist of Happiness
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Ghazali repeatedly makes the point that one of the main veil that keeps people from seeing God is religious fanaticism...He says it doesn't matter too much which school of Islamic law you follow...There are different theological positions that are valid to adopt...Try and be orthodox, infact, it is necessary to be orthodox BUT whatever you do, don't turn into some kind of a zealot, so that religion just becomes a way of feeling that you are better than everyone else and thereby veils you from God...
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