A spiritual Ishmaelite

Author: ishmaelabraham

  • An American secularist criticizes an ignorant Christian for being unkind to me on my birthday :)

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·FRIDAY, 1 DECEMBER 2017
    Jerry Sexton Thomas, Allah is never mentioned in the Bible, but “Elah”, which is a generic term for God was used, and not in the context that you use with inserting your own words into scripture. It seems to me that you use much of your time on Abraham’s wall to express your hatred, and you don’t even take a break from it on his birthday. Is this the real Christianity?
    Ishmael Abraham I love his ignorant faith more than the militant non-faith of those atheists uninformed about Islam. 😉 And, you are neither militant nor uninformed 🙂
    Julie Darlene Skidmore Like Nicodemus, one can be religious and not be born again.
    Ishmael Abraham But one should not be like Marcion too 🙂
    Jerry Sexton I would love to be with my grandparents again. I wish there were an afterlife, I wish that it was as easy as making a choice.

    Ishmael Abraham 
    Were your forefathers Catholics, because Sexton is apparently a catholic concept. I wanted to be the sexton of my village Mosque, but I finally chose not to be like Buddha. 🙂 Otherwise, if I remained as a sexton there, I could not have known a descendant of Christian sextons 🙂 Try reciting Rabbi Yassir a lot if you like especially before sleeping because sleep is a simulation of death which means O God make it easy for me. Overcoming existential dysphoria is possible with divine grace if we are ethically and metaphysically curious. I also pray for you. Rabbi Yassir lahu. O God make it easy for him. Today, Pakistanis celebrate the non-orthodox birthday of our Ishmaelite Hero in imitation of your forefathers’ celebrations of Christmas. Thanks for being kind to me on my birthday and Mawlid 🙂

  • Why am I non-blind admirer of Imam Busairi?

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·FRIDAY, 1 DECEMBER 2017
    A Shia friend criticizes Sola Scriptura believers for calling Naat a heresy.
    Ishmael Abraham I love Qasida Burda because Imam Busairi also wrote poetry against Jews and Christians. But I think  bhar do jholi, manzur dua karna, and khoti qismat karo khari were not written by alim poets.
    Ishmael Abraham
    I love this: لَوْ نَـاسَـبَتْ قَـدْرَهُ آيـَاتُهُ عِظَمـاً أَحْيَـا اسْمُهُ حِيْنَ يُـدْعَى دَارِسَ الرِّمَمِ
    If his miracles were proportionate (according) to his (A) rank in greatness, then his (A) name, when called out, would have brought decaying bones back to life.
    The miracle of Quran is greater than supernatural miracles because it will inspire informed faith in an age of naturalism.

  • Thanking a complimentary Shia friend, after God made me see the Shia-Sunni complementarity :)

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·FRIDAY, 1 DECEMBER 2017
    Hussain Murtaza Dr Muhammad Iqbal didn’t have Facebook when he was 29. You must be a genius to be diversely well educated and knowledgeable at 29. My Android isn’t too comfortable with Facebook these days, I apologize if the “complimentary” note is a short one.
    Hussain Murtaza It is really getting on my nerves how often people confuse “complimentary” and “complementary.”
    If I say nice things about you, then I am giving you a compliment and so I am being complimentary (note the “i” in the middle). If you and I have different skills that make us work together in a more complete way than we could do individually, we complement each other. So we are complementary (note the “e” in the middle). See “complimentary” and “complementary” at Merriam-Webster for more information.
    The version to use when you mean that something is free is “complimentary.”
    Ishmael Abraham Thanks for being complimentary. I thank One God for seeing the Shia-Sunni complementarity. Dr. Iqbal is said to visit orthodox scholars Anwar Shah Kashmiri and Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi. But we need a greater pious modernist- orthodox traditionalist complementarity. I can see such complementarity in relationship of Mustafa Tabatabai and Ayatollah Borqei.

  • Deliberately provocative Christians make me think about VVF, Hindu women and Baal

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·FRIDAY, 1 DECEMBER 2017
    Dieter Verhoeven
    While there is some linguistic cross-over, it’s very clear when one digs into details of numerous references that the Yahweh God of the Judeo-Christian frame is distinct from the Allah of the Islamic frame and that this Islamic concept is featured in the bible prominently as Ba’al. There is no interchangeability between Yahweh and Allah and they are not synonymous. The suggestion otherwise is just ignorant.
    This is just a statement of uncontroversial fact. What one does with that is up to them.
    Thomas Edward Morgan Jr.Dieter Verhoeven, no kidding.
    Christians are to be like Christ Jesus to the church to women. Jews hold a Pentateuch giving more written rights to women than all other documents ever written summed up prior to 1930 A.D. and thus if women want to avoid the curse of the fall they ought to contemplate marrying a Jew or a Christian.
    By comparison, Hindu women confronted with Islam killing their husbands threw themselves into the funeral fire to be burned to death, than to be in a Islamic harem of the curse of the fall.
    And we all know little girls in Islam are burning themselves to death or going to medical institutions from the West in their area to get their “Vestico-vaginal Fistula” fixed up to be halfway healthy again in the region of their vagina.
    Ishmael Abraham According to Quran 37:125, Allah loves Elijah peace be upon him called Ilyas and hates Baal too. The founder of evangelical Tabligh movement in Islam was also named after Elijah peace be upon him.
    Ishmael Abraham If you think Hindu women hate Islam, learn about Hindu poetess Lata Haya and Hindu activist Arundhati Roy.
    Ishmael Abraham I think both Muslim and Christian women, as in Nigeria, suffer from VVF. Both of us respect Sarah peace be upon her but there is a story that she asked Abraham peace be upon him to pierce the ears and circumcise Hagar peace be upon her, but we never blame the grandmother of Jesus peace be upon him, for that, so Jews and Christians should learn about their own history before blaming Islam out of jealousy and ignorance. And, secularists also have a role to play, if they force us to accept pornographic modernity, more traditionalists will avoid dialogue with modernists and more of them will perpetuate the weaknesses of traditional culture. So, we should work together to reform both traditional and modern weaknesses.
    Ishmael Abraham Dieter, may God bless Thomas with your patience too 🙂

  • Thanks God for knowing a religious scholar and a swimmer

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·FRIDAY, 1 DECEMBER 2017
    Tank McNamara
    Ishmael Abraham
    Both ignorant secularists and ignorant believers might think that swimming is a secular activity, but learned orthodox Muslims see it as a spiritual activity.
    Isaiah 43:2 When you pass through water, I am with you. 🙂
    http://hadithanswers.com/virtue-of-swimming-in-hadith/

  • Eden on earth and the remembrance of the divine and the eternity

    Some suggest than Eden was on earth, and our physical existence can become an Eden on earth if keep the remembrance(dhikr) of the Alpha and the eternity alive in our own mundane consciousness and the popular consciousness.
    Kimber’el Eventide I believe it can become once again…it is my goal and many other souls here on earth to help move humanity into that direction instead of one dreamed of by the elite in charge right now.
    Ishmael Abraham The dream of the elite will be fulfilled for a finite time but sacred texts teach that when the sacred dream revives, the temporal empire will dissolve like salt dissolves in water. 🙂

  • An interculturally synergetic sister introduces me to the modern Catholic Tolkien

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·MONDAY, 27 NOVEMBER 2017
    Ishmael Abraham Elvish is a linguistic concept and I have explored the concept of a divine proto-language. The sacred Abrahamic texts indicate that there will be a future universal spiritual language. So, I try to be eloquent writer of both ancient and modern languages.
    Kimber’el Eventide thank you Ishmael Abraham! Indeed, the Elvish language Tolkien created is a “sample” of what light language can do for a species and how it elevates them getting them in touch with their divineness created by a divine source we all come from.
    Ishmael Abraham If I had met Tolkien and CS Lewis I would have passionately described to them how Quran ecumenically resolves their denominations. Tolkien considered his mother a martyr of faith. He also leaned towards anarchism and I would have explained to him how a sacred democratic utopia can make anarchism unnecessary. :)Thanks for being a marvelous feminine inter-cultural bridge and being thought provoking.
    Kimber’el EventideIshmael Abraham My pleasure! it is true. Tolkien would have understood the slight mysticism in the Quran and the glory of Oneness, he would get.
    Ishmael Abraham You are right. Tolkien would have appreciated the mystic side while CS Lewis would have preferred the exegetical side. Both are complementary. Mysticism helps overcoming intellectual egoism and lack of praxis and exegetical approach helps overcoming the mystic ineffability and antinomian egoism.

    Kimber’el Eventide Ishmael Abraham and another thing is Tolkien can go beyond cultures and see the truism of all religions. He was able to bring pagan/monotheism together as the Quran suggested once that the people belong as one great family.

    Ishmael Abraham Rene Guenon has worked on the idea you have suggested and it is called perennialism. Quran sees paganism as an offshoot of primordial monotheism because we tend to grow closer in love to the physical manifestations of light instead of the Divine Source. So, first and greatest commandment teaches that the we should make the love of created lights subordinate to the love of The Light (An Nur).

    Kimber’el Eventide Ishmael Abraham I will have to read about Rene Guenon then 😉

    Ishmael Abraham Ha ha. Born in France and died in Egypt. He was a muhajir (Quranic term for a migrant for God) who left his home for God so his last word was Allah. I am agoraphobic so I cannot be as great as him. Just like Tolkien used allusions to European mythology, he used allusions to Hindu mythology of the Hindu ancestors of Pakistani unitarians.
    I should commend that during interfaith and intercultural debates this is the best resource to briefly relate to famous western personalities, because Islam is basically defined by a unitarian theology and a sacred democratic political philosophy. A western sister who admires Quran introduced me to Tolkien and this article contributed to interfaith and intercultural dialogue. Thanks.

  • Juan Cole, anti-war movement and Islamic schisms

    Bernard Lewis has said that intrafaith violence in Christian history had been more violent than intrafaith violence within Islam. May be this is due to intersection of intrafaith schismatic debates and invention of gunpowder. While schismatic war within Islam had been early when gunpowder had not been invented. As far as Sola Scriptura- Gnostic schism is concerned, this is repeating in Muslim world in the form of Salafi-Sufi debate. Self-righteousness can be wrong on both sides but can also bring genuine reform if suffused with compassionate spirit. For example, Madkhali an apolitical Salafi scholar has admitted that our harshness has adversely affected our sola scriptura movement. While, Hudson institute has described anti-blasphemy Barelwi Sufis in Pakistan as extremists. So, this superficial and inaccurate dichotomy on western pre-conceived notions can lead to cruel foreign policies making the western anti-war movement an ethical failure like Christian humanism which is more Scriptually acceptable to orthodox Muslim due to it’s concomitant dissent of sexual revolution. May God bless all the truth seekers. I learnt about you through your healthy and courageous criticism of MEMRI and how they promoted intrafaith schisms in the Middle East through their inaccurate and zealous propaganda. Indian pro-mystic Sola Scriptura scholar Shah Waliullah has successfully resolved the Salafi-Sufi debate and Dr. Marcia Hermansen has translated his book The Conclusive Argument from God into English. Since, extremists in each denomination are not exposed to ecumenical literature due to sectarian xenophobia, intrafaith ecumenical activists should compassioantely introduce the sectarian fanatics to ecumenical ideas and I want to work on this and ecumenical Christians should work on it too to avoid secularization of their own future generations.

  • The woman I love: Zain Bhika and weakening the root of sexual revolution

    The Woman I Love Lyrics

    For as long as, I remember
    You were there for me
    A young woman, growing older
    But always mum to me
    My heaven lies under your feet

    Now I look at you and there’s a few more, wrinkles and lines
    But I still see the same beautiful smile
    And it hurts to know someday the light will fade from your eyes
    Cos you’re the woman I love
    You’re the mother I love, my mother
    You’re the woman I love

    Life just passes by
    a fragile butterfly
    I thank Allah to have you by my side

    It seemed my heart beat, a little faster
    The day I held your hand
    We were young then, learning together
    To love and understand,
    You helped me to be who I am

    Now after all these years, I look at you, my beautiful bride
    My whole life is right there in your eyes
    And Allah allows me every day to wake up with your smile
    ‘cos you’re the woman I love
    You’re the woman I love, my wife
    You’re the woman I love

    Life just passes by
    a fragile butterfly
    I thank Allah to have you by my side

    How could I, describe the feeling
    of holding you that day
    From the moment, of your first breath
    You stole my heart away,
    There’s nothing about you I’d change

    Now I will stand by you, as you spread your wings, in this great big world
    But you’ll always be my little girl
    And I pray Allah will keep me by your side long enough for you to learn
    That you’re the woman I love
    You’re the woman I love, my daughter
    You’re the woman I love

    Cos Life will pass us by
    you are my fragile butterfly
    I thank Allah to have you by my side

    The greatest blessing
    That I have
    Are the women in my life…

    Performed: Zain Bhikha
    Written: Nasira Bhikha, Zain Bhikha and Idris Phillips
    Published: Zain Bhikha Studios (SA) 2011

    The Woman I Love

  • God bless Britt Nicole: Supernatural and firebrand faith in naturalist America

    Walk on the water:

    You look around and staring back at you
    Another wave of doubt
    Will it pull you under
    You wonder

    What if I’m overtaken
    What if I never make it

    What if no one’s there
    Will you hear my prayer?
    When you take that first step
    Into the unknown

    You know that he won’t let you go
    So what are you waiting for
    What do you have to lose
    Your insecurities

    They try to hold to you
    But you know you’re made for more

    So don’t be afraid to move
    Your faith is all it takes
    And you can walk on the water too
    So get out and let your fear fall to the ground

    No time to waste, don’t wait
    And don’t you turn around, and miss out on
    Everything you were made for
    Gotta be, I know you’re not sure, more

    So you play it safe, you try to run away
    If you take that first step
    Into the unknown
    He won’t let you go

    So what are you waiting for
    What do you have to lose
    Your insecurities
    They try to hold to you
    But you know you’re made for more
    So don’t be afraid to move
    Your faith is all it takes
    And you can walk on the water too
    Step out, even when it’s storming
    Step out, even when you’re broken
    Step out, even when your heart is telling you
    Telling you to give up
    Step out, when your hope is stolen
    Step out, you can’t see where you’re going
    You don’t have to be afraid
    So what are waiting, what are you waiting for
    So what are you waiting for
    What do you have to lose
    Your insecurities
    They try to hold to you
    But you know you’re made for more
    So don’t be afraid to move
    Your faith is all it takes
    And you can walk on the water
    Walk on the water too

     

    Set The World On Fire:

    I wanna set the world on fire
    Until it’s burning bright for You
    It’s everything that I desire
    Can I be the one You use?

    I, I am small but
    You, You are big enough
    I, I am weak but
    You, You are strong enough to
    Take my dreams
    Come and give them wings
    Lord with You
    Nothing I can not do
    Nothing I cannot do

    I wanna feed the hungry children
    And reach across the farthest land
    And tell the broken there is healing
    And mercy in the Father’s hands

    [CHORUS]

    Take my dreams
    Come and give them wings
    Lord with You
    Nothing I cannot do
    Nothing I cannot do

    My hands my feet
    My everything
    My life, my love
    Lord, use me

    I wanna set the world on fire
    I wanna set the world on fire, yeah

    Take my dreams
    Come and give them wings
    Lord with You
    Nothing I cannot do
    Take my dreams
    Come and give them wings
    Lord with You
    There’s nothing I can’t do
    Nothing I can’t do

    I’m gonna set the world on fire
    Set the world on fire

    Shalom the divine guidance may be upon truth seekers. God bless your remarkable faith in a faithless world. May God also bless your empathetic piece of writing. I arrived here listening to mystic music genre called qawwali and I wanted to explore modern Christian music. So, I loved Walk on the water by Britt Nicole so I ended up here. May God bless your supernatural faith in a naturalist West.