{"id":40,"date":"2012-07-29T19:09:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T03:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?p=40"},"modified":"2015-04-14T21:45:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T05:45:01","slug":"lecture-on-principles-of-sprituality-and-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"The Essence of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faith is the bedrock of religious life. Dedication to God is typically measure by the strength on one&#8217;s faith. However, &#8216;faith&#8217; means different things to different people. Sometimes it is viewed as subscribing to a set of theological beliefs (e.g., God exists), or unwavering self-assurance about the truth of certain theological propositions. And, faith is sometimes viewed in terms of &#8216;good&#8217; deeds, where the behavior of a person of faith is guided by compassion and selflessness.<\/p>\n<p>In this lecture we will explore the meaning and essence of faith from the perspective of Islam&#8217;s sacred scripture (the Quran).<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1105\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/E200701.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('1105','http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/E200701.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/E200701.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?powerpress_pinw=40-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/E200701.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"E200701.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faith is the bedrock of religious life. Dedication to God is typically measure by the strength on one&#8217;s faith. However, &#8216;faith&#8217; means different things to different people. Sometimes it is viewed as subscribing to a set of theological beliefs (e.g., God exists), or unwavering self-assurance about the truth of certain theological propositions. And, faith is sometimes viewed in terms of &#8216;good&#8217; deeds, where the behavior of a person of faith is guided by compassion and selflessness.<\/p>\n<p>In this lecture we will explore the meaning and essence of faith from the perspective of Islam&#8217;s sacred scripture (the Quran).<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1106\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/E200701.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('1106','http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/E200701.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/E200701.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?powerpress_pinw=40-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/E200701.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"E200701.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-lectures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}