The Stars and the Peabrain
“You think that you are some insignificant thing but yet in you the whole cosmos is contained. You can’t know the constellations and you cant know that Pleione is so many light years away except that it is in you. The Nobel Prize winner Alexis Carrol said that if we take the smallest things we know in the universe and the largest things, add them and divide by two, we get the human being. We are in between the subatomic universe and the great galaxies. If we don’t see the peabrain size of ourselves we become arrogant, but we also have to see the cosmos sides of us. We have both, just as we’re bestial and we’re angelic. If you become angelic, you’re not acting out the other aspects God has given you. Balance. We shouldn’t forget our own insanities and our absurd nature, the ridiculous things we do. Those are all useful, that’s why we do them. You walk upright. But you’re also a defecating creature, and that’s to remind your peabrain.”
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, during his Aqeedah class.
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