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Originally Posted by bnmoore
The Qu'ran itself contains stories of divine origin. Consider Ghaflah as a Buddhist concept. (Apply it to anyone and everyone.)
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I don't think we've met here as yet.
Thanks for the word in bold above. I confess that I do not know the Qu'ran, or the Muslim faith very well. I'm glad to know that this concept.
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Originally Posted by wikipedia
Ghaflah (غفلة) is the Arabic word for negligence, heedlessness. In Islamic context, it is the sin of forgetting Allah and one's divine origins, or being indifferent of these.
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Speaking of words, you used the greeting "namaste" earlier in this thread, which is an expression of the concept, is it not? That is, seeing the divine in another despite appearances and/or actions. I could agree more with the intent.