{"id":921,"date":"2025-01-02T16:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T00:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?p=921"},"modified":"2025-01-02T16:43:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T00:43:19","slug":"what-does-islam-say-about-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?p=921","title":{"rendered":"What Does Islam Say About Suffering?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The holy Quran makes a sweeping statement about &#8220;suffering&#8221;: &#8220;Truly, God created man in travail.&#8221; (90:4). This is a sobering pronouncement from our Creator: pain and anguish go hand in hand with living in the natural world. However, Rumi sees \u201cmeaning\u201d and spiritual value in suffering. Suffering can be transformed into growth. In fact, both Rumi and the Buddha agree that suffering and enlightenment are closely related. In this presentation, we will discuss what the Quran and Rumi say about suffering.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2220\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/10-11-2024.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2220','http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/10-11-2024.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\/10-11-2024.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?powerpress_pinw=921-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/10-11-2024.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"10-11-2024.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holy Quran makes a sweeping statement about &#8220;suffering&#8221;: &#8220;Truly, God created man in travail.&#8221; (90:4). This is a sobering pronouncement from our Creator: pain and anguish go hand in hand with living in the natural world. However, Rumi sees \u201cmeaning\u201d and spiritual value in suffering. Suffering can be transformed into growth. In fact, both Rumi and the Buddha agree that suffering and enlightenment are closely related. In this presentation, we will discuss what the Quran and Rumi say about suffering.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2221\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/10-11-2024.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('2221','http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/10-11-2024.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\/10-11-2024.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/?powerpress_pinw=921-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/audio\/10-11-2024.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"10-11-2024.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interfaith","category-islam","category-mysticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hamidentezam.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}