I share indifference towards games with him, and like Muslims he tried a romance with his cousin. His poem the revolt of Islam shows that he was aware of religious landscape of the world. His phase of pantheistic mysticism could have enlightened through Sufi mysticism. This is my desperate attempt to find common ground.
Ishmaelite Prophetic descendant Imam Sadiq peace be upon him said: An oppressed brother should say to the unjust brother:” I am the oppressor” and should not give him silent treatment. God is just and he will give back the oppressed person his right.
فليرجع المظلوم إلى صاحبه حتى يقول له : يا أخي !.. أنا الظالم حتى ينقطع الهجران فيما بينهما ، إنّ الله تبارك وتعالى حَكَمٌ عدل يأخذ للمظلوم من الظالم
My message to Adam Grant:
I read your thoughts about humble narcissism and authenticity.
Islam teaches a middle path between passive monasticism and machiavellian action. Hadith teaches about self rights. The first Caliph taught: If I am right, cooperate with me. If I am wrong correct me.
Shariah or sacred law is an example of outside in transformation. When we grow our beards and cover our heads, we act pious and then the inward spiritual journey tries to reach the spiritual utopia the sacred outside represents.
Of course, on earth before death there is inevitable distance between loving believers and Beloved God. So, the best form of relationship on earth is to remember Him. Like Paul said: Pray without ceasing. Islam teaches how to pray without ceasing. Even when we go to market, go near husband, or go for call of nature we have sunnah prayers to remember God. Sunnah means Prophetic praxis because actions of remembrance are more important than empty words of boasting piety. So, even worldly activities become spiritualised. When we sleep we pray: O God with Thy name I die and rise up again. Because sleep is sister of death. When we wake up, we pray: All praise is to God who resurrected us after death and towards Him is the final resurrection. When we go to market we glorify God by saying: There is no god except God Alone who is without partner. When we answer the call of nature we pray: O God I ask for your protection against spiritual and physical impurities because our kidneys and stomach produce both physical and spiritual impurities which requires us to renew our state of impurity by ablution as a form of daily baptism. After we get a sense of relief after answering the call of nature we pray: All praise is to God who removed my sense of discomfort and relieved me. So, we thank God for even small blessings and comforts. When we have physical intimacy with our sexual partner in marriage we pray: O God protect us both from Satan and protect the baby which you will bless us from Satan. Today most people forget God as soon as they are outside Mosque or Church and even within Church people are thinking about greed and temptations. I agree with you that faith precedes Law. In Islam, the Companions or Prophetic disciples said: We learnt iman(faith) before Quran(Book containing commandments like Torah).
Learn Arabic and grow in ilm and hilm. Sheikh Mufid narrates that Imam Sadiq(as) taught: man qallada fi deenihi faqad halak. Who does blind taqlid destroys his salvation. There is ilm outside Khomeini and Sistani.
Hello everyone, I have an important announcement to make. I have a very interesting interview tomorrow that you cannot miss! Her name is Tania and she is a woman who lived inside ISIS territory with her husband and kids and left it all behind. How did she end up there? What made her change her perspective both going from a moderate Muslim family to a conservative religious Muslimah and then eventually leaving Islam ending up as an agnostic atheist and now speaking for freedom and democracy
Muslim philosophers respectfully learned from secular semi-gods. While modern hero worshipers insult Abrahamic heroes. This is the difference between Islam and modern tribalism.
I pray to Allah to make Muslims be more spiritually interactive to make the rate of rise in white converts to Islam higher than that of brown atheists.
Both Sola Scriptura and traditionalist movements can be self righteous. I follow as Quran teaches the middle path(ummatan wasatan) so I follow Prima Scriptura approach. But we can see the disasters of self righteous Protestant Zionism and Salafist phariseeism. Self hating Quranist modernists have no major contribution to Quranic studies other than importing anti-spiritual western culture.
There are important outreach efforts in our sub-continent. Tabligh movement has global outreach but they are not qualified for interfaith dialogue. Dr Zakir is qualified and a bit confrontational but does not have an organized missionary movement. Mufti Taqi has written some reasonable material about Christianity but laymen in Tabligh movement are out of touch with it . Dr Qadri has tried to visit churches but he is criticized for condoning Christian errors, If we integrate these visions in qualification, compassion and outreach we can minimize these tragic events of blasphemy .
But still we should not ignore the legal element of our religion. In western law, in case of preponderant evidence makes you guilty. For example, the evidence against Dr Afia was not of totally certain nature but still she was sentenced. The idea of complete certainty of evidence is actually Islamic. So, in case of iota of doubt, life imprisonment is more just than execution.
A spiritual Ishmaelite 