A spiritual Ishmaelite

Author: ishmaelabraham

  • Witnessing divine Beauty in the Hereafter

    

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·SATURDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER 2016

    Jacques Djurich
    Ishmael Abraham And if i may ask , what the Islamic scripts say about Muhammad , did he saw God or has he ever been in the presence of God?
     Ishmael Abraham
    Yes, he went to God near His Throne called Miraj and saw him with the vision of his heart. No other Prophet had the privilege to have seeing God with his heart before. We also try to visit God five times a day as Salah is called Miraj of a believer where we should try to worship Him as if we are looking at Him. Witnessing divine beauty will be the greatest delight after we enter Paradise In Sha Allah.

  • How an authentic unitarian paradigm can break ground in Cult Studies to offer tools of religious de-radicalization

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·THURSDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER 2016

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    Ishmael Abraham
    To Natacha Tormey a victim of western sex cult: Sociologists classify David Berg as having charismatic authority, but western Scripture apparently lacks intellectual tools to challenge such authority due to history of saint-worship and deification of Christ peace be upon him . For example, a old woman challenged the charismatic authority of the second caliph of Islam on the issue of austerity in dowry, and he acknowledged that she knew Quran more than him. Even in the most revered personality of the divine Ishmaelite Messenger(p), Scripture emphasizes that he is not divine and can sometimes forget or in fact Scripture mentions that the Messenger(p) should have given more attention to truth seeking under-privileged than truth-indifferent elites.
    Ishmael Abraham
    Sister Natacha is accurate when she says that one is more at risk when one feels one is safe which echoes Quran that fitna or temptation which attracts you into doing something unethical is more harmful than physical harm. Cults or heresies are called fitna in Islamic heresiology

  • Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, faithful Queen of Sheba in Quran and female defenders of truth

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·THURSDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER 2016

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    “Although over sixty years have passed since the Movement emerged into existence, no women leaders have appeared that can confront secular and Marxist trends single-handedly and efficiently. This has come about as a result of men’s unrelenting attempts to control women’s movement, as men have never allowed women a real chance to express themselves and show special leadership talents and abilities that demonstrate their capability of taking command of their work without men’s dominance. I believe that women’s Islamic work will succeed and prove itself in the arena of the Islamic Movement only when it gives birth to female Islamic leaders in the fields of Call, thought, science, literature and education. Accordingly, women as well as men can dedicate themselves to Allah, and play a role in jihad. I do not think that this is impossible or even difficult. There are genius women just as there are genius men. Ingenuity is not a monopoly for men. It is not in vain that the Holy Quran tells us the story of a woman who led men wisely and bravely and made her people fare the best end: it is the Queen of Sheba, whose story with Solomon is told in Surat Al Naml. I have observed in the University of Qatar that girls make better students than boys.
    Dr Yousuf Al qardawi views about women’s role in society
    May Allah bless our educated sisters with humility of the Queen of Sheba to embrace truth when it is presented to them.

  • Conversation with Seandor Szeles about free will 

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·WEDNESDAY, 31 AUGUST 2016

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    The approach of Islam about free will is intermediate between absolute fatalism called jabariya in Arabic (having same etymology as determinism of Algebra) as of some Christian sects and absolute self-deifying affirmation of free will in Zoroastrianism called qadariya in Arabic. The latter was adopted by heterodox Mutazila sects in Islam, and it was prophesied in Hadith sacred texts that unipolar Antichrist world order and its supporters will embrace it. The orthodox approach in Islam is between two extremes. Western thought tends to think in a reductionist way in discrete binary terms while ignoring the continuum. For example, a Muslim saint said: We can lift one foot which is our free will, and we cannot lift both feet which is our determinism. We can jump, but even rockets cannot escape gravity as long as they have mass.

  • A food of thought to Times of Israel for progress in the mission of first Ishmaelite Nobel prize winner 

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·MONDAY, 29 AUGUST 2016

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    He talked about rights of Palestinians while receiving Wolf prize. He also talked about how Islamic civilization brought humanity out of dark ages. Reformation preceded Enlightenment and since he was no atheist so a monotheistic reformation is required to produce his vision of monotheistic enlightenment. He also thought positively about Arab Spring which is a movement of freedom and freedom includes anticolonialism. Sola Scriptura orthodox Jews should become more vocal in terms of science and politics in order to make modern Zionism more receptive to sacred texts of Tafsir, Hadith and Ahlulbayt which we consider the universal Ark of Salvation in the global flood and firestorm of promiscuity, materialism and bloodshed.

  • Islamic epistemology, Hindu pro-traditionalism/pantheism and western philosophy

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·FRIDAY, 26 AUGUST 2016

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    Ron William

    · “WHAT IS TRUTH?” Truth, like knowledge, is surprisingly difficult to define. We seem to rely on it almost every moment of every day and it’s very “close” to us. Yet it’s difficult to define because as soon as you think you have it pinned down, some case or counterexample immediately shows deficiencies. Ironically, every definition of truth that philosophers have developed falls prey to the question, “Is it true?”Simply, we can define truth as: a statement about the way the world actually is. We’ll look at various theories below that philosophers have considered but that’s an adequate rough-and-ready definition to get us started. Coming up with a definition of truth falls under the discipline of epistemology or the study of knowledge though some philosophers categorize it as a study in metaphysics–the study of what is real.
     Siva Chetty
    Ron,,you are digging deep into Hinduism…..The truth is Maya…..
    Saroj Hkg
    maya is the “ever changing nature of universe and the physical world and its sutiations”..thus,”illusion”…he fact that physical/materialistic world is maya is a truth.
     Ishmael Abraham
    The word used in Holy Hadith for maya is batil(falsehood). The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “The truest poetic verse ever said by a poet, is: Indeed! Everything except Allah, is batil (perishable) “
    http://sunnah.com/bukhari/81/78
    So whatever is not both pre-eternal and does not have eternal future without death and annihilation is the real Truth or Al-Haqq. Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said: The truest word uttered by a poet is this verse of Labid: “Behold! apart from Allah everything is vain,” and Umayya b. Abu Salt was almost a Muslim.
    http://sunnah.com/muslim/41/4
    Rene Guenon a Sufi convert to Islam has shown how pro-traditionalism of Islam and Hinduism can work together against Godless modernity.
    Ishmael Abraham
    Ibn Arabi has explored this in such depth that orthodox scholars accuse him of degenerating into idolatrous hindu pantheism which leads to Hell fire according to 4:116 48:13 3:85 25:1. This shows that every human being has a moral/spiritual obligation to seek and acknowledge truths and the Truth.
    Leon Garcia
    The Sankhya Philosophy system is designed to afford understanding of the real Truth. What is that real truth? The real truth is knowledge of how to get out of the material body, which is the source of all trouble. Lord Kapila’s incarnation, or descent, is especially meant for this purpose. HARE KRSNA, HARE KRSNA, KRSNA KRSNA, HARE HARE, HARE RAMA, HARE RAMA, RAMA RAMA, HARE HARE,
    Ishmael Abraham
    Material body can become trouble free if its rights are fulfilled in halal ways. And, halal and haram is determined by revelation. Buddhist and Hindu negation of material body leads to practical hypocrisy because being an absolute monk is called schizophrenia according to modern standards. So, Islamic paradigm is the ideal balance between body and spirit.

  • Technology dependence, intense loneliness and the need of disconnecting

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·WEDNESDAY, 24 AUGUST 2016

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    May Divine peace or shalom in hebrew be upon truth seekers 🙂 I am an orthodox and orthoprax Muslim electrical engineer and technology educator. Being an introvert, I feel more comfortable in written communication than verbal. I spend most of my time in listening and responding to those who are curious and/or critical of faith in general and my faith in particular. But receiving 30-100 notifications daily burnt me out. So, I went way for Itikaf retreat of meditative worship in the last ten days of Ramadan fasting and I felt rejuvenated after returning. I feel intense loneliness when I am not with a sacred scholar or I am not engaged in an inter-civilizational dialogue. So, I wanted to verbalize my intense loneliness. Thanks for helping me in that.

  • Corvid funerals: How Quran ascribes intelligence and sentience to animals

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·TUESDAY, 23 AUGUST 2016

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    May Divine peace be upon the truth seekers 🙂 I am an orthodox and orthoprax Muslim, an electrical engineer and a technology educator who interacts with those curious and/or antagonistic about Islam on daily basis. I encounter numerous pseudo-psychiatric judgements about my religion so I am seeking to develop a reverse discourse to answer their allegations. Quran talks about corvid funerals so I was curious about secular perspectives on this. Quran also refers to communication of ants and how they detect threats which is the same behaviour I find in scientific explanations of corvid funerals. So, Quranic theosophical worldview ascribes both intelligence and sentience to animals.

  • Do I desperately seek attention and approval of colonizing whites due to a colonized mind?

    

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·MONDAY, 22 AUGUST 2016

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    Do I desperately seek attention and approval of whites?
    Hussain Murtaza He comes from Pakistan, my home country. So I can very well relate to this psychology of craving for the white man’s attention. The white men colonized us for a hundred years and we still haven’t been to move past that psychology. You can’t even imagine how the white man is considered to be the benchmark of all excellence, in our part of the world. This has nothing to do with racism, you would have understood this if you had this context in mind
    Jerry Sexton Well I will say this about him. I respect him even if I don’t believe in a deity. His command of the English language is most impressive. He loves debate, as do I. He tolerates insults very well, stays friends with Christians and atheists even when they tell him in not so friendly ways that his views are wrong. If there were anything that I would change about him, it would be his view about secular government. 🙂
    Ishmael Abraham Islam offered humanity what Antichrist secularism offers today without its seductively destructive potential for mass apostasy.
    Ishmael Abraham The word for evangelism in Islam is dawah or calling humanity towards Allah their Creator. So, it is about making humanity attentive to their Origin. I seek attention of everyone who disagrees with Quran and Sunnah. So, I befriend even takfiri, cursing and abusive Shia extremists who can be Arabs, Persians or Indians so that does not depend upon race.
    Jerry, your evangelism was not Scripturally intelligent because Jesus peace be upon him clearly said: I am sent ONLY to the lost sheep of house of Israel, while Ishmaelite Prophet Muhammad blessings and peace be upon him was sent for all mankind (Quran 7:158 48:13 3:85 25:1)

  • Thanking Allah for a milestone in being an orthodox intellectual progressive & inspiring disenchantment in the traditional world

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·MONDAY, 22 AUGUST 2016

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    Today is a blessed and happy day. I have scored Top 3 position in Pakistani MSEE admissions and I have scored 76% marks as expected in foreign scholarship test. Pakistani MS will allow me to continue my mission in a relaxed way while foreign MS will require a lot of hard work which will decrease my online interactions with foreigners. My electrical engineering studies will enable me to delve into the ultimate questions of existence like quantum cosmo-genesis from a theosophical perspective. I may study subjects like quantum cryptography, quantum computing and nano electronics which define the modern technologies of future. But, my aim is to consciously disenchant myself from the spell of modernity through insightful and skeptical familiarization and to inspire a movement of conscious disenchantment (taharrur min al sihr or liberation from spell) in the traditional world.