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Spirituality vs Materialism July 10, 2011 Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

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1 min 56 sec
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discovering negativity in both India and America
“I discovered something very strange there.”
31 sec
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material progress alone cannot satisfy the soul
“Man cannot live by bread alone.”
1 min 30 sec
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material progress leaves the spiritual self starving
“Man cannot live by bread alone.”
29 sec
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you can be an idealist only in your mind
“Mind is destined to live in a contradiction.”
2 min 36 sec
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the art of managing contradiction between mind and society
“Mind is destined to live in a contradiction.”
3 min 22 sec
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idealism belongs to the mind, never to society
“Mind is destined to live in a contradiction.”
2 min 57 sec
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why peace-without-justice slogans in Kashmir and Palestine fail
“Kashmir wants a solution but not with the gun.”
3 min 53 sec
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Satan's impossible condition and its echo in real life
“Allah told Satan to bow before Adam.”
5 min 1 sec
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full story of the American-born boy's conditional patriotism
“I told American Muslims: you have no love for this country.”
2 min 2 sec
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testing an American-born Muslim boy's love for his country
“Do you love America? He said yes, by force.”
36 sec
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defining love as strong affection, not just feeling
“Do you know what the word love means?”
2 min 46 sec
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why the Prophet is called a divine gift to mankind
“It comes in a hadith: I am a divine gift to mankind.”
5 min 38 sec
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how an authentic prophetic record finally came to exist
“It comes in a hadith: I am a divine gift to mankind.”
2 min 6 sec
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Khansa's grief turns to peace on seeing the Prophet
“A battle called Uhud happened in the Prophet's time.”
41 sec
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even top American Muslim leaders live in frustration
“You'd be surprised — I found everyone frustrated.”
5 min 30 sec
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ideology versus practical results as the real source of frustration
“From this I discovered one more thing.”
33 sec
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chasing practical results breeds frustration, not ideology
“I discovered something very important from this.”
4 min 17 sec
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you cannot invite people you secretly hate
“Why isn't outreach work happening anywhere else?”
36 sec
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hating the people you invite kills your outreach
“People are negative toward the very people they invite.”
2 min 55 sec
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a heckler in a US mosque and Abu Bakr's calm reply
“In one mosque program, a young man caused a scene.”
22 sec
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do good and cast it into the river
“Don't expect anything back — then you'll stay peaceful.”
56 sec
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beating negativity by focusing only on the result
“There's only one thing: think about the result.”
2 min 1 sec
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Buddha's dirty pot parable about purifying the heart first
“I've told this Buddha story here many times.”
52 sec
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save yourself, let everything else go
“My philosophy is: save yourself.”
33 sec
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from I think therefore I am to God exists
“Descartes said: I think, therefore I am.”