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"𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐬 𝐀𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐡 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧"
Ibn Khaldun argues that when a group is defeated through armed force, the soul of its people see perfection in the victor
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Margaret Marcus was born to Jewish parents in New York, America in 1934. Early on, she was eager about books & attended reformed Jewish “Sunday School”. She was fascinated over the historical relationship between Jews &
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"𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐮𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐞𝐳𝐠𝐢𝐧"
Probably the greatest historian of the Islamic religious & intellectual history, of the last century, Fuat Sezgin was a Muslim & a gift to Muslim Ummah from Allah who passed away in 2018 at the age of 94. His research encompassed
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"Whenever I (Ibn Sina) found myself perplexed by a problem, or could not find the middle term in any syllogism, I would repair to the mosque and pray, adoring the All Creator, until my puzzle was resolved and my difficulty made easy. At night I would return home, set the
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Decolonization also includes de-Salafization of our societies in order to truly reclaim our tradition otherwise we ain’t having any Islamic revival.
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1 verse to some up modernity, if you know its philosophical foundations.
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Many of us today look at our contemporary Ulama and religious institutions, and wonder why is this "𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲" compared to those of the past? Hallaq explains that the biggest reason behind it is the colonial venture of the Muslim world, by
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US Political Theorist S. Huntington also confesses that west won the world cuz of its military superiority & not of ideas, religion. He also says that west has problem with Islam, because large part of Muslims are still convinced over the superiority of their civilization.
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& problem is when instead of understanding their defeat & what they can do to rise again; they wrongly assume that their defeat is due to perfection of victor which they cannot have. Slowly this becomes a firm belief in soul & people start adopting ways of the victors.
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𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 — 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐡
The clip is from TV series Seljuq, which depicts Imam Ghazali teaching Albert, a Christian seeking Truth, about mystical insight. Its a Quranic based classic Sufi concept in which cosmos is seen as manifestation of
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The last Ottoman Shaykh ul Islam, Mustafa Sabri Effendi who witnessed this process among the Muslims after defeat to west, raised a similar point that the armed defeat of Muslims led them to wrongly assume that the west is intellectually and morally superior to us in anyway.
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Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) said about our subtle (latif) physical paradisial state,
"Indeed in Paradise there is a market in which there is no buying nor selling - except for forms of men and women. So whenever a man desires a form, he enters it."
—— Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2550
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“Colonization, modernization, and globalisation all contributed to creating a plethora of religious movements all claiming authenticity and contesting the authority of traditional ‘ulamā. Although Muslim feminists, progressives, secularists, and Salafis are all different,
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A short and interesting Quranic cosmology
One of the names or attributes of Allah is “al-Alim” (the All-Knowing).
Linguistically, the words “al-alam” (the world) and “alama” (sign) are derived from the root word “ilm” (knowledge).
Allah had “Ilm” (knowledge) of every
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You cannot bring back Salahuddin and Nuruddin Zangi, as long as you don’t have a Nizam ul-Mulk, who will devise a plan to deconstruct and uproot the modern alien structures and frameworks from the Muslim society and revive Islamic forms and
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video credits:
@jalalayn
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A necessary book recommendation!
Authored by the renowned Sachiko Murata, it is a unique work of our age considering it presents gender, male-female dynamics, marriage, rights etc from Traditional Islamic philosophical and mystical POV, and not modern and western notions.
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"Feminism is an unnatural, artificial and abnormal product of contemporary social disintegration, which in turn is the inevitable result of the rejection of all transcendental, absolute moral and spiritual values. The student of anthropology and history can be certain of
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“Desire makes slaves out of Kings,
Patience makes kings out of slaves”
— Imam Ghazali
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How Pakistan & nationalists lie to people about being a Shariah country? How to fix this system, In-fact replace this system?
You all have probably heard of the usual lollypop they give us that no law in the Pakistani constitution which will be enacted against the Quran &
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A critical review of Sherman Jackson’s article on his main thesis of “The Islamic Secular”
Sherman Abdul Hakim Jackson is an American convert and academic of Islamic studies. Recently, has has been quite the controversial figure for his idea of Islamic secular although it
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Shaykh al-Akbar:
"Do you not see how the infant, with his special trait, acts on the adult so that the latter comes down from his leading position and plays with the infant, rocking him and appearing before the infant as his equal in understanding? Thus, the adult becomes
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"The first thing children must be taught is Hayā because it is foundation of all other tarbiyah. Once they have internalised Haya, their heart will resist any inclination towards any sins they may perceive as vulgar."
— Imam Ghazali on Golden Principles of Raising Children
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"𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐎𝐟 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 & 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲", the biggest ever genius of Iblis against humanity
When Allah created man, everyone prostrated to him except Iblis who was a jinn. As a result he was forsaken by Allah and became most wretched of all.
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One of the rare good orientalist Professors of Arab History, David S. Margoliouth says on "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 & 𝐈𝐬𝐧𝐚𝐝 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐈𝐧 𝐇𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐡".
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[Lectures on Arabic Historians, p. 19-20]
Wael Hallaq exposes western Hadith criticism on same fundamental blunder, which I have also felt while reading about rather superficial or surface level methodologies and arguments of orientalists
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[Wael Hallaq,
Authenticity of Prophetic Hadith: A Pseudo Problem, p. 76-77]
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Imam Plotinus?
Man is literally explaining the kind of dialectical process Quran undertakes to steer man’s focus from desiring limited beauty, harmony etc of this world to maximal beauty, harmony etc of Heaven, Asma and al-Jamil (Most Beautiful), the source of all, i.e. Allah.
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"Islamic rejection of capitalism is based on moral - not materialist - premises. Accepting unlimitedness of wants negates mainstream orthodox stance in Islamic thought. Islam - unlike socialism - recognizes capitalism as intrinsically evil.”
— Dr. Javed,
Rejecting Freed. & Pr.
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10th Muharram, one of the darkest days in the history of humanity, as the purified progeny of Prophet ﷺ was slaughtered like animals.
Shaykh al-Akbar ق in the third volume of his “📚 Futuhat al-Makkiyah” says that the Ahl al-Bayt were purified by Allah in the sense that they
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My Salafi, Taymi, Mirzai, Ghamidian and other Muslim revisionist brothers and sisters, what was the point in opposing the traditional schools constructed and precisely refined over 1000+ years, for the sole reason of conducting independent inquiry on the Quran and Hadith,
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Ibn Arabi rejects any notion of despising or looking down upon the material world as many mystics do to preach the escape from this world. The material world is also a manifestation of the Divine Names and must be approached in the right way; the best guidance coming from Shariah
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"The greatest task confronting the Ummah in the fifteenth Hijri century (21st century) is to solve the problem of education. There can be no hope of a genuine revival of the Ummah unless the educational system is revamped and its faults are corrected. Indeed, the system
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People often ask me for book recommendations on Akbarian thought but I am always reluctant to do that due to inherent complexity of the school. It isn’t for people to read and taqlid before properly understanding Kalam and Falsafa, matter of fact, Shaykh al-Akbar don’t even want
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Wael Hallaq exposes western Hadith criticism on same fundamental blunder, which I have also felt while reading about rather superficial or surface level methodologies and arguments of orientalists
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[Wael Hallaq,
Authenticity of Prophetic Hadith: A Pseudo Problem, p. 76-77]
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What was the first thing created by Allah? Nur Muhammadi? Aql? Qalam?
Sultan al-Awliya Shaykh Sayyid Abdul Qadir Jillani al-Hasan wal-Husayni ق says that all of these three are different names for the same thing which is none other than al-Haqiqa al-Muhammadiya.
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If you think of the veil as a sign of individual freedom. Sorry but you have been successfully provoked by liberalism and without thinking, you are now using their language to present Islam in your way, while believing you are opposing liberalism. But you aren’t, on a
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On "𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞"
"Historians of science (including Kuhn, Feyerabend and Ravetz) and sociologists of knowledge (Rose, Mitroff, Latour and Woolgan; Knorr-Cetina and many others) have shown that scientists do not ‘discover’ the laws of nature — rather, they
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Influence of 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐲𝐤𝐡 𝐈𝐛𝐧 𝐚𝐥-‘𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐢
In “𝘜𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘢 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘪 𝘔𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭 & 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢”, Francis Robinson briefly discusses the dominant influence of Shaykh al-Akbar Ibn al-‘Arabi on major Muslim Empires.
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An Akbarian Theist response to Plato’s Euthyphro Dilemma
Is something morally good because God commands it? or does God commands it because it is morally Good?
If a person answers with the first one, then the interlocutor assumes that means there are no intrinsic
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"𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐥-𝐊𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥 (𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐧)"
-- 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵 2/2
The concept allegedly find its roots in anonymous group Ikhwan al-Safa & later became mainstream through its adoption into Islamic Philosophy & Mysticism but developed differently by Sunni & Shī’a.
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"Nearly every one of the promises that were made by the architects and creators of liberalism has been shattered. The liberal state expands to control nearly every aspect of life while citizens regard government as a distant and uncontrollable power, one that only extends
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"The Imam of the Gnostics (Arifīn), the Shaykh Muhyīddin Ibn al-‘Arabī said when speaking of the secret of numbers: “When a man combats his own passion, he should give pre-eminence to the even number”—which means that he should give precedence to the simultaneous
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Iblis (the devil) is not a direct opposite of Allah in Islam, God forbid!
According to Akbarian metaphysics, the Divine names and qualities manifest in the diverse loci of creation, some things are weaker manifestations and some are stronger, each proper to their place and
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The Pen and The Tablet defines the ontology of male and female, masculinity and femininity, in Islam. When Allah created The Pen and The Tablet, He said to The Pen to write on The Tablet all that is going to happen or caused in our world. The former serves as an active agent
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Sectarianism and the Muslim Political Revival
The majority of the Muslims think that sectarianism is something recent in Islam when in-fact the Muslim world was plagued with it right in the classical Abbasid times. It was probably as bad as it is today. But God eventually
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Wherever the word “Nur” has been used in the Quran, it has always come in the singular grammatical structure while the mention of falsehood, evil, injustice, oppression have always come in the plural grammatical structure. The wisdom behind this is that Truth (Islam) is One
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Shaykh Ibn al-‘Arabi قدس الله سره instructed his followers about “𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞” in the ancient dictum:
There are three forms of knowledge.
The first is intellectual knowledge, which is in fact only information and the collection of facts, and the use of these to
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“𝐅𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬” in Akbarian Metaphysics
At the most fundamental level we have “Being (Wujud, Existence)” qua Being—indeterminate, nonindividuated, nondelimited, nonentified, unrestricted. It is Being (Wujud) in His essential Reality called
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Hijab of women is not only to cover the awra but also to cover what is sublime and should not be witnessed by everyone. The best example is Allah Himself, being veiled by so many veils, in some reports 70 or 100. Hence a woman practicing Hijab properly and a man commanding his
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Some Salafis distort the fact about Imam Junayd al-Baghdadi that he preached Quran and Hadith oriented Tasawwuf, to imply that late Tasawwuf was biddah, deviance and kufr, particularly of Akbarians. A view which is partly thanks to their Shaykh al-Islam, for he unanimously
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Since Ramadan, I was trying to find a suitable occasion for writing a review on the first ever physical book, I read, but I kept delaying it for different reasons. However I finally decided to do it today, although I am yet to complete the last two chapters because I am all
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Shaykh al-Akbar condemns two types of [pretender] Sufis as companions of Iblis
1. Those who believe in Unification of the self of God and the self of creation
2. Those who abandon the Shariah and undermine the authority of the Quran and Hadith
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Let this be clear to everyone especially Muslims. The western world as a whole did not end up with Modernity and all its derivatives, by completely rejecting the religion, rather by interpreting the religion in the modern secular framework, which helped them gain ground
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Sunnat Nagar graveyard, Lahore. Her Namaz e Janaza was led by Hafiz Muhammad Idrees, and numerous Jamat Islami members and chiefs attended her funeral. May Allah reward her for all of her efforts for the Muslim Ummah and give her Jannah, أمين.
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Sultan al-Arifīn Shaykh Muhyidīn Ibn al-‘Arabi writes on Miraj of Prophet Muhammad (S) & Muslim Saints:
"If the night Journey (isra) was taken with a spirit and if it was just like a dream of a sleeping man, no one could deny and debate with Hazrat Muhammad (S). The only
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Based on his visit to Indian libraries in 1988 and a thorough research on the Sufi literature that talks about Shaykh al-Akbar and Wahdat al-Wujud in positive terms and dismiss objections of Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi, Prod. William Chittick concludes that before the modern
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@Kali_Vardag
Regime wise, the inferiority complex started in the 1850s Ottoman period and continues to exist in almost every single Muslim regime today except that of Iran and Afghanistan. But the masses, on large, are still convinced over the superiority of Islam and that is a plus for us.
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"𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐥-𝐊𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥 (𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐧)"
-- 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵 1
Insan al-Kamil is an Quran &Hadith based Islamic mystical & philosophical concept. To understand it, first we need to have a basic understanding of the ontology & cosmology of Islam.
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Metaphysics of “𝐌𝐮𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐝 (ﷺ)”
"The Perfect Human Being, and Muhammad in particular, is sometimes depicted as the microcosmic (insan al-saghir) counterpart of the Breath of all All-Merciful [i.e. The Cloud, that existed before creation as mentioned in a Hadith]. We
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For modern West, an Islamic Revival is more dangerous and concerning than a Marxist revolution, for Marxism is still built upon the epistemology of modernism and envisions a liberal society. Marxism also doesn’t see Capitalism
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[Maryam Jameelah,
Islam & Modernism, p. 211]
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"Concepts are empty without intuition." — Kant
"Discursive intellect (reason as commonly known) is completely helpless without receptive intellect receiving and forwarding to it some form of matter to form concept of." — Ibn Arabi
But stark differences should be highlighted.
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“No philosophical explanation can do justice to Ibn al-‘Arabī's thought unless it is backed by personal experience of Wahdāt al-Wujūd . . . Philosophical interpretation is afterall an afterthought applied to the naked content of mystical intuition.”
—— Prof. Toshihiko Izutsu
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“God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.”
— Plotinus
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encompassing subjects like Islam, Shariah, Culture, History, Modernity, Westernization, Feminism, Women, Imperialism, Orientalism, Comparative Religion, Nationalism & on on. Some of her most important works are:
1. Islam & Modernism
2. Feminist Movements & Muslim Women
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𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞, neither arbitrary skepticism nor blind faith
In the wake of Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment, arbitrary methodological skepticism became a default approach to knowledge, of the modern pseudo intellectuals. It brings
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Those who find it hard to comprehend and understand Logic from books, must watch this 10 video series of
@ShaykhElAzhary
peripatetic oriented basic level course on Logic, based on Imam al-Abhari’s Isaghuji, a classic primer on Logic.
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One of the verses to ponder upon... Because it shatters the modern ethical views, whether held by Muslims or non-Muslims. There are some groups, who see Shariah punishments as too much or barbaric for their modern subjective standards but Allah says there is instead “life”
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"Men on a lower level of understanding, when brought into contact with phenomena of a higher order, instead of making efforts to understand them, to raise themselves up to the point of view from which they must look at the subject, judge it from their lower standpoint, and
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Akbarian stance on “𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲”
Before presenting Akbarian stance, it’s important to understand what is Divine Simplicity. Basically it is a philo—theo doctrine which negates any kind of extra mental ontological multiplicity from God’s existence &
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Ijitihad in taqlid of modernism and westernization.
Maryam Jameelah was a rare gift to the Muslim world, a traditional, religious and intellectual women, all at once. Young Muslims especially females, must read and idolize her.
— Islam in Theory and Practice, p. 113
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Imam Plato’s general concept of the inherent knowledge and ascent and descent of the soul is similar to what Allah talks about in the Quran. For him, our actual self, which is the soul, once enjoyed living in its actual place, which is the realm of command or spirits, and
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"While we advocate the following of Imam Maturidi or Imam Ash‘ari in creedal doctrine, we also follow the later Ash‘aris in departing from Imam Ash‘ari’s position in many areas of general metaphysics, instead affirming univocity of existence, mental existence, the
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The simple proof for Wahdat al-Wujud from both reason and scripture is to ask a person if they admit that things like life, love, compassion, beauty, wisdom, intelligence, mercy, wrath, power, majesty, justice etc exist in the world. If they say yes, then the follow up
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3. Islam & Modern Man
4. Westernization & Human Welfare
5. Islam & Muslim Women Today
6. Is Western Civilization Universal?
7. Western Imperialism Menaces Muslims
8. Islam in Theory & Practice
9. Islam & Orientalism
10. Islam & Western Society
11. Renaissance of Islam
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the West. The colonialists carried out a large scale successful structural genocide of the Muslim world with particular focus on thought, politics and education, and replaced it with modern one, leaving Islamic scholars and institutions like a tree without roots or a fish
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One of the great books out there!
Wisnovsky fully contextualizes the Philosophy of Ibn Sina in both historical and metaphysical terms. What was a bit surprising to me was the fact that Ibn Sina himself was influenced by Kalam in some aspects, especially Sunni Kalam, like the
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Mantiq (Logic)
Every science or domain, consists of manifold subject matter, governed by unitary aspects, in that the inquiry on the subject matter of the science is conducted under its unitary aspects, which yields knowledge of Reality in the process of ascent. Every science,
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the limits of human possibility."
—— A.J. Arberry,
“Avicenna on Theology, Autobiography of Avicenna, p. 11”
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If anything Pakistan will turn secular, more, with actions of these religious fanatics and extremists who have no Ilm of their own religion, as people will grow out of Islam through its albeit false representation... The ongoing persecutions resemble those of Medieval Church.
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Ibn Sina read Aristotle’s metaphysics 40 times but could not understand it properly, until he eventually ended up with commentary of Al-Farabi usually known as “The Second Teacher,” and he (Ibn Sina) understood everything and also made charity.
[Avicenna on Theology, p. 12]
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Done posting my 1st ever blog
The five fundamental principles of metaphysics collected from different Philosophical traditions of Platonism, Neoplatonism, Avicennanism and Akbarianism by our Shaykhuna Hasan Spiker and consequences upon their denial.
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12. Islam Vs Ahl al-Kitab: Past & Present
An aspiring Muslim woman indeed, the praise and contributions of Maryam Jameelah should be sung for our Muslim youth especially the women, so that they strive to become like her.
Maryam Jameelah died in 2012 and was buried in
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Why a basic student of Theology and Philosophy or even a mentally sound Theist is more rational and wiser than your average neo-atheist scientist.
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Shaykh Hasan Spiker elaborates on how we can 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝-𝐨𝐧, 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, and contribute to rebirth of traditional sciences.
With the advent of modernism, we know that the understanding of the mind, objective truth &
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The disintegration of the home and family, loss of the authoritarian role of father and sexual promiscuity have been directly responsible for the decline and fall of every nation which these evils become prevalent."
—— M. Jameelah,
Feminist Movement & The Muslim Women, p. 4
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Imam Razi was probably the first post-classical Muhaqqiq who critiqued immanentists teachings of Aristotle, Ibn Sina and the philosophers and Asha’ri theologians influenced by them. He was quite a Platonist and Akbarian before Akbarians in that regard, even tho he was
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Refuting ahistorical 𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥 of Sayyida Khadija (سلام اللہ علیہا)
Like always, to promote liberal ideals among people of religion, it’s scripture and figures are interpreted in the liberal framework. The beloved wife of our Prophet (ﷺ),
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Ibn Sina believed in bodily resurrection. He basically denied that it can be proven through logical demonstrations and called it a purely faith based belief, although even on that he was countered by the
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[Ibn Sina on Theology, trans. by Arberry, p. 64: From “Kitab al-Najat]
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substantial level, instead it is just another apologetic reaction. Veil is a sign of devotion and submission, to God because we are His slaves. And it is in this submission, actual good and success is preserved for us. There is no such concept as individual freedom in Islam.
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even supported Zionist at this point.
But a point came when Margaret became to mature intellectually & broaden her horizons. Atheism satisfied her no more so she began to search for a new identity which ultimately led her towards Islam. She accepted Islam in 1961, met &
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the least slumber overtook me. I would dream of the precise problem which I was considering as I fell asleep; in that way many problems revealed themselves to me while sleeping. So I continued untiI I had made myself master of all the sciences; I now comprehended them to
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Pakistan, which she did. She met her husband M. Yusuf Khan, a key member of Jamat Islami, & became mother of five children. She adopted the name Maryam Jameelah & was a strong defender of the Traditional Islam & Muslim Women.
She is known to have written over 30 works,
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I will show you how Akbarian theology preserves the apparent or literal meaning of scripture.
Below is one of the Hadiths, which troubled numerous scholars because of the 3rd line which translates into “... I seek refuge in You [Allah] from You [Allah]...” This is a dua of the
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lamp before me, and busy myself with reading and writing; whenever sleep overcame me or I was conscious of some weakness, I turned aside to drink a glass of Nabidh (a drink allowed in Hanafi madhab) until my strength returned to me; then I went back to my reading. If ever
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If I had to pick the best place to learn about the teachings of Shaykh al-Akbar Muhyiddin Muhammad Ibn al-‘Arabi, I would confidently go with the founder of Ibn al-Arabi Foundation, Sir Abrar Ahmed Shahi, even tho I read many experts of Shaykh al-Akbar in academia.
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In the last phase of his life, when he was almost a Wujudi Sufi, Imam Ghazali held many beliefs that were different from mainstream Ashari positions and what he himself believed in early phases of his life.
One of such beliefs was regarding the matter of Essence-Attributes.
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Eid Mubarak to all the Muslims around the world, may this Eid bring the blessings and mercy of Allah upon the whole Muslim Ummah, امين.
Here is a short overview of the Islamic Metaphysics behind Eid al-Azha,
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"The project of coloniality and the geopolitics of knowledge have placed modernity as the “civilization project” of the West, which systematically makes sure to negate and subordinate “other” knowledges, frameworks,
thinkers, and subjects. Those who then seek to reassert the
The 2nd book of Hallaq I’ve read. Intro to Islamic Law had a great narration of how European colonialism transformed law. In this work, however, his telling of the European liberal order leaves much to be desired and his romanticism of Islamic history is completely unrestrained.
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