Question: I have been living in Muslim countries for a long time, but still I don’t feel entirely at home there, nor any longer, in the land of my birth. Shaykh Nazim: We shall send you to the moon. Feeling that one is neither Occidental nor Oriental is a sign of real faith, as the holy Quran declares that divine lights are neither Oriental nor Occidental. Your goal must be to belong to your Lord, not to East or to West. Identification with one’s worldly homeland and with all that pertains to it is a reflection of the soul’s longing for its heavenly homeland; but we must remember that it is
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