{"id":796,"date":"2026-10-13T09:49:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckb.adlania.net\/the-inner-self-in-the-light-of-the-quran\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T20:46:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T20:46:48","slug":"the-inner-self-in-the-light-of-the-quran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/the-inner-self-in-the-light-of-the-quran\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inner Self in the Light of the Qur\u2019an"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sheikh Khaled Bentounes is descended from a lineage of Sufi masters tracing their spiritual heritage back to the Prophet Muhammad. Following his father\u2019s death, he was appointed by the council of elders to lead the Alawiyya Sufi order. Thus began a long journey of inner exploration, taking him across Africa, the Middle East and Europe, where he shares the teachings of the Sufi tradition.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this book, Sheikh Khaled Bentounes offers a fresh reading of selected verses of the Qur\u2019an. By uncovering the deeper meaning of Islam\u2019s foundational scripture, while also highlighting the universal dimension of its message, this new interpretation presents a vision of the Qur\u2019an that stands in stark contrast to all forms of fanaticism and sectarianism. All forms of religious fundamentalism seek to impose an order they regard as immutable, forgetting that a strictly literal interpretation of religion reveals only superficial truths, which have been the source of many tragedies. Sheikh Bentounes explains that true spirituality is an ongoing quest to discover the reality of the message, enabling us to savour, through sharing, the richness of life and the inexhaustible flow of the Divine that it carries within itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheikh Khaled Bentounes is descended from a lineage of Sufi masters tracing their spiritual heritage back to the Prophet Muhammad. Following his father\u2019s death, he was appointed by the council of elders to lead the Alawiyya Sufi order. Thus began a long journey of inner exploration, taking him across Africa, the Middle East and Europe, where he shares the teachings of the Sufi tradition. In this book, Sheikh Khaled Bentounes offers a fresh reading of selected verses of the Qur\u2019an. By uncovering the deeper meaning of Islam\u2019s foundational scripture, while also highlighting the universal dimension of its message, this new interpretation presents a vision of the Qur\u2019an that stands in stark contrast to all forms of fanaticism and sectarianism. All forms of religious fundamentalism seek to impose an order they regard as immutable, forgetting that a strictly literal interpretation of religion reveals only superficial truths, which have been the source of many tragedies. Sheikh Bentounes explains that true spirituality is an ongoing quest to discover the reality of the message, enabling us to savour, through sharing, the richness of life and the inexhaustible flow of the Divine that it carries within itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biographies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheikh-bentounes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}