A spiritual Ishmaelite

Author: ishmaelabraham

  • Kamli walay Muhammad(p): The modern mystic music of the genre modern qawwali

    Assalamu alaykum. I come from an orthodox family and my younger brother is a pious modernist and he was listening to this. Obviously sacred legalists disagree with the music and I read that one of the Chishti saints would request the worldly people to leave the gathering of mystic music because they could only enjoy it sensually. But how to recognize whether the impact is sensual or mystic? I think if you wake up for fajr for next day, this is a good litmus test.

    http://kryptonguys.com/kamli-walay-muhammad-by-arshman-khan-farrukh-mehrvi-download/

    Krypton Guys have not published my comment so far. God bless you all the lovers of One God and His Messenger(p).

    http://www.islamiclyrics.net/milad-raza-qadri/kamle-wale-muhammed/

  • Quran 14:4 and ex Muslims: The issue of sacred normativity and antinomianism

    I have found relatively comfortable to hear secular or ex Muslims talking about Islam compared to militant ex Christians talking against religion because they have never experienced religion in its Ishmaelite pronomian manifestation. It is also good to hear about the issue of normativity from a secular point of view because the issue of antinomianism and commandments has traditionally been discussed in intrafaith or interfaith debates. I have grown up in an orthodox household of Pakistan being a son of a Scriptural father and a mystic mother. One of them won a US scholarship and another is a zoologist. I received modern education in Pakistan and now I am an electrical engineer working in the area of Nano electronics. What I have observed that it is not pronomianism/sacred normativity per se which causes dysphoria, rather it is being psyche-insensitive pronomianism which causes problems. So, I try to understand the psychology of dissenters of faith and try to reach out to them in their own linguistic and psychological terms as Quran 14:4 teaches. By the way I have read in sacred legal manuals that if someone breaks his fast due to masturbation for example, he only has to fast only for one day again. I have been sexually explicit to make a point that sacred law is not as horrible as some Scripture ignorant zealots present it to be. As far as the issue of shaming is concerned, the word tathrib in Quran 12:92 forbids shaming. For example, whatever an Islamic court decides independently does not give the believers the right to insult any sinner. Quran 2:206 teaches that some people refuse to acknowledge truth simply because their self respect has been hurt that’s why the Ishmaelite Messenger(p) stood up for a Jewish coffin stating: Did God not breathe His own soul in him.

    I refuse to say Ramadan Mubarak this year — here’s why.

  • Discussing the linguistic and mystic definitions of bulh or the evil blind person with a mufti (a specialist of legal opinions)

    Ishmael Abraham
    Muhammad Mushrraf Well. It is very much difficult to translate “Bulh” in hadith with what was done by that guy.
    Brother is referring to Freddie Mercury and another hypocritical anti-gay politician
    Ishmael Abraham Both of these men were informed about western culture and uninformed about One God and His Messengers(as).
    Ishmael Abraham I love this definition: عن أبي عثمان : الأبله هو الأبله في دنياه ، الفقيه في دينه
    The saint Abu Uthman An Nahdi says: Bulh means someone unaware about his worldliness and someone with deep cognitive and sentient understanding of his religion.
    Ishmael Abrahamعن عاصم الأحول ، قال : بلغني أن أبا عثمان النهدي كان يصلي ما بين المغرب والعشاء مائة ركعة
    It is said that this saint who offers his definition used to offer 100 units of prayer between sunset prayer and night prayer
    Ishmael Abrahamعبد القاهر بن السري : عن أبيه ، عن جده ، قال : كان أبو عثمان من قضاعة ، وسكن الكوفة ، فلما قتل الحسين ، تحول إلى البصرة وقال : لا أسكن بلدا قتل فيه ابن بنت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
    When Prophetic grandson, peace be upon him, was martyred, he migrated to Basra from Kufah while saying: I will not live in the city where the son of the daughter of Messenger(s) of God was martyred.
    Ishmael Abrahamقال : وحج ستين مرة
    It is said that the same saint performed Hajj pilgrimage 60 times.

  • Requesting an orthodox Christian for dialogue

    Shalom the divine peace may be upon those who follow divine guidance. I am an orthodox Muslim involved in interfaith and intrafaith dialogue. Your comment that Protestants are also the sons of Rome made me smile. Quran names Chapter 30 after the Rome which represents the western civilization. The Syrian Orthodox played a crucial role in 1st century politics and spirituality of Islam. The wife of third Caliph of Islam, Naila, was a Syrian Orthodox Christian who refused to marry after the martyrdom of his Ishmaelite husband. God bless you and we also agree on Ezekiel 18:20. Previously a Russian orthodox monk blocked me. I hope you are open to dialogue.

  • Can the Gospel Coalition Australia embrace the Newtonian prima scriptura?

    Wow. Shalom the divine peace may be upon those who follow divine guidance. This was an amazing reading. I am wondering why it is without comments for almost an year. This perfectly describes the historical trajectory of not only Christendom but the same ideas apply to birth of Karaite movement in Jewry and Salafi movement in the Ishmaelite world. This is an important sentence: Sola Scriptura does not promise, and does not deliver, an infallible church. There is a debate in our faith tradition about the meaning of the the sacred texts about the interplay between Quran and Prophetic praxis at the historical advent and the continuing interplay between Quran and Prophetic descendants. The Twelver doctrine treats Prophetic descendants as infallible. The Sunni doctrine treats the consensus of the entire community as infallible. The middle community or the Ishmaeltic Ebionites called the Zaydis who are the pro-Sunnah Shias treat individual Prophetic descendants as fallible but consensus of Prophetic descendants to be infallible. I also think that if one absolutely rejects the mystic tradition in favour of blindly anti-traditionalist Sola Scriptura, one can end up being a deist and finally an atheist. So, a think one should be skeptically traditionalist rather than being an anti-traditonalist while being a sola scriptura missionary. God bless you and may he guide you to Arian Catholic sainthood, Newtonian sola scriptura unitarianism and pronomianism of Ebionites. There is no salvation without first and greatest commandment to love our Creator especially with all our MINDS. I hope they are Scriptural enough to publish my Ebionitic comment.

    https://australia.thegospelcoalition.org/article/sola-scriptura-seven-things-it-is-and-isnt

  • Quran 24:23, the evil-blind bulh and ghafilat: Freddie Mercury and fall from grace of an anti-gay politician

    My father won a scholarship to study at Maryland but he chose to return due to consumerist obsession although he did not appreciate the current sexual obsession two decades ago. I stumbled here as I was researching about Parsi singer Freddie Mercury who hated his past so much that he even changed his name from Farokh which means the happy person in Persian and Persian mystic Ghazali has written Alchemy of Happiness on the concept of psychological and soteriological happiness. Modern culture is glorified by western politicians as ‘offering’ creative destruction of the traditional world. This is natural and logical because absence of spiritual light of first commandment only zoological darkness will prevail. Even a Parsi scientist of Pakistani origin ended up being pulled by the black hole of sexual revolution. His case is curious for traditionalists because he died of AIDS. This lawmaker corroborates another Hadith that majority of inhabitants of Paradise will be those who are bulh/blind in materialistic and secular sense but enlightened in the spiritual and scriptural sense. Which implies that when people acquires secular, materialistic and political awareness, but do not have spiritual enlightenment most of them end up being victims of zoological instincts themselves after being provoked by the external fire. Like a Pakistani surgeon died of Congo fever after operating a patient suffering from Congo. God praises such evil-blind women of faith in Quran 24:23. God bless my evil-blind zoologist mother who chose not to work in intermingling corporate culture and still she does not use facebook like my father.

    http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/11/21/anti-gay-married-republican-lawmaker-sexually-harassed-dozens-of-young-men/

  • To Theo Hobson: How failed deism and sola scriptura leads to atheism?

    I want to revive the missionary legacy of what Quran calls a hawari/disciple Thomas who was martyred in India by polytheists for his monotheism. And, today Muslims in India, especially, Kashmir continue that legacy. I have witnessed a relationship between Sola Scriptura movements and deistic movements within both West and Middle East because both dislike the religious tradition, and many apostates tend to be influenced by Sola Scriptura and deism, but not everyone has the fervour of Herbert of Cherbury to dive in the ocean of love and ocean of logos at the same time. For example, Dawud At Tai a saint threw his books in the river to focus on worship and divine remembrance but his friend Imam Zufar managed to reconcile both which requires greater faith and greater scholarship. There is a Hadith that those who understand the logos deeply are more effective against the Evil than the worshipers, however, a Prophetic descendant warns that scholarship which does not have attendant piety is worthless. So, Islamic worldview has been able to contemplate and reconcile these issues centuries ago when West was relatively ignorant about both Scripture and logic. So, I was happy to find a western affirmation of my own conclusion. Thanks and may God bless you brother Theo Hobson.

  • Buddhism and Xinjiang: What orthodox Muslims do not know about Bukhari

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·FRIDAY, 17 NOVEMBER 2017 
    A Buddhist scholar decodes the original language of the word Bukhari which is the second most sacred Hadith text in Islam after Quran. Bukhara in Sodgian means ‘A fortunate place’.
    The finding of manuscript fragments of the Sogdian language in China’s Xinjiang region sparked the study of the Sogdian language. Robert Gauthiot, (the first Buddhist Sogdian scholar) and Paul Pelliot, (who while exploring in Dunhuang, retrieved Sogdian material) began investigating the Sogdian material that Pelliot had discovered. Gauthiot published many articles based on his work with Pelliot’s material, but died during the First World War.
    I think Islam starting spreading in Xinjiang during Rashidun Caliphate.

  • Hebraic Biblical Unitarians and circumcision: Congratulating an Australian Shia Muslim revert brother on adult circumcision

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·FRIDAY, 17 NOVEMBER 2017

    Ryan Morgan Christison

    10 hrs ·
    The last goodbye.
    Imagine the pain of Abraham peace be upon him without any injections during those times. May be that is part of the reason he was blessed with spiritual leadership of humanity. God talks about him fulfilling the test of commandments in Quran 2:124. God bless you too and make you a spiritual leader of your community. Ameen. I have also heard that people celebrated circumcision during the spiritual golden age.
    Hebraic Biblical Unitarians can understand the Scriptural significance of this commandment the best in the western world.

  • To a self-described Salafi feminist: How company of tahajjud-observant sisters can help overcoming anarchist narcissism

    I think Sayyidah Nafisah, peace be upon her, is the pinnacle of female saints among the later Salaf. A woman who has memorized the Quran in 21st century would be better than a public speaker which can induce anarchist narcissism which has led to many divorces in the traditional world. Psychologists say that sign of narcissism is marrying a weak submissive man instead of an assertive scholar of Salaf. However if you develop zuhd and asecticism of Salaf through the company of tahajjud-observant sisters, along with their scholarship, you may not develop anarchist narcissism.
    For one of the best articles on psychology of a sensual Paradise an idea which is based on the Jewish idea of a physical Paradise of milk and honey as opposed to Christian idea of no marriage in heaven which an atheist commentator described equivalent to Hell.