"... all is perishing, except the face of allah..."

Following up on this Zensunni idea.... I often think about the verse:

 all is perishing except the Face of Allah...." (28:88) as suggesting a kind of impermanence or anicca (a Buddhist term). The same could be said about the Islamic notion that from moment to moment creation does not have any permanence and so God is contantly creating and recreating existence. And so perhaps as Muslims we can accept Buddhism as an insightful analysis of reality (apart from the Face of Allah).

For a more detailed and substantial discussion of the correspondences between Islam and Buddhism, we can look to Reza Shah-Kazimi's Common Ground Between Islam and Buddhism (With an essay by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Introduced by H. H. the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, H. R. H. Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, Professor Mohammad Hashim Kamali)

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