The greatest challenge facing the contemporary Muslim world is to bring our limited, human understanding of Islamic law into harmony with its divine spirit -- in order to reflect God's mercy and compassion, and to bring the blessings of peace, justice and tolerance to a suffering world.
After all, Western art in many ways starts with the Greeks, who made ideal beauty, with its glimpse of divine perfection, the hallmark of their culture.
And it is dragging its feet over a next date for wider talks with America, three European governments, Russia and China, who are trying to divine its real nuclear intent.
While its revelatory inspiration is divine, Islamic law is man-made and thus subject to human interpretation and revision.
According to the perennial philosophy, everything that happens in this world, everything that we can hear and see here below has its counterpart in the divine realm, which is richer, stronger and more enduring than our own.
His intricately ambiguous drama evokes the fearsome mysteries beneath the surface of life and the diverting illusions that its masterminds, human or divine, project.
For Margaret Barker, a Methodist scholar, part of the faith's power lies in its insistence that prophecy and divine revelation did not just happen once, a long time ago: the flow of messages from God is still in progress.
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Today thinkThin launches its newest offering, the Divine bar, a product that Falsetto hopes bridges the relationship between nutrition and candy and adds several more SKUs to her expanding product line ( five varieties in more than a dozen flavors).
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As a plan it is elegant, but its inner logic is difficult to divine.
The company is privately held, so its business strategies are hard to divine.
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Religion and maktoob were comforts -- the notion of divine authorship (and its obvious extension, ultimate justice) elastic enough to accommodate even inflexible facts like the Holocaust and that my mom was both good and burdened with a vascular disease.
Wine consumption may or may not have divine sanction in Georgia, but its production here goes back much earlier than the birth of Christ.
Investing in an industry that is so vulnerable to both divine and human intervention is not without its risks.
But there are seeds, too, in the very nature of things: a promise, after all, is only a promise, even when it is supported by divine revelation, and the chances against its fulfillment may be put into a depressing mathematical formula.
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Many Egyptian politicians and analysts, accustomed to attributing moves by the SCAF to efforts to extend its own political power or block Islamists, struggled to divine a clear political motive for the disqualifications.
Only Muslims can decide how they balance legislation by men and what the community -- or at least its legal guardians, the ulama -- has historically seen as divine commandments.
The restaurant is excellent and the pool is divine, but what I'll remember most about Maison Souvannaphoum is its warmth.
The idea is to nurture the fledgling companies--Divine's share price would theoretically reflect the rising total value of its parts--and spin off the healthy ones.
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