If You're Not Touched by Others' Pain: Natural Law, the Koran, and Three Texts from Muslim Culture

Abstract

I simply argue here and show by an example that if we accept that there exists a natural law common among humans, we also have, in this natural law, a means by which to make judgments about texts and how well they hold to, or hold away from, the natural law.

Keywords: natural law, the Koran, friendship, enemies, Golestan, Sa'di, Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Shahname, Faridoddin Attar, The Conference of the Birds