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 only a reflection and not the original. Until we have love for our original homeland we will hate the very thought of death, shrink from our reunion with
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