“If you ask the fish, ‘what is water?’, he will ask: ‘How can I tell you what water is?’ Everything is sacred,” said renowned religious scholar and writer Seyyed Hossein Nasr, who delivered the keynote address at a remarkable conference.
Jenny Uechi Posted: Apr 27th, 2014
“When we lose sight of the sacred, we can’t see each other but as dust,” said Vancouver-based trial lawyer and writer M. Ali Lakhani, at the Sacred Web conference in the Segal Building on Granville Street. He spoke of a haunting remark made by a survivor of 9-11, who said: ‘We were as dust in their (the terrorists’) eyes.” The comment underscored the complexity of religion today.
Lakhani, founder of Sacred Web — a favourite journal of Prince Charles, who gave a video message to kick off the event — said he convened the conference this year for two main reasons. The first was to celebrate the life and work of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, an acclaimed religious scholar and author of over 50 books (including Islamic Art and Spirituality, a compelling introduction to Islamic art), the event’s keynote speaker.
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