A spiritual Ishmaelite

Author: ishmaelabraham

  • Between anarchist narcissism and pacifist self annihilation

    The cure to anarchist narcissism and pacifist self-annihilation is following a just and moderate leader. The challenge is to recognize that unsung hero or even heroes. Quran teaches the state of guidance requires increasing the level of sacrifice and struggle.

    Nick Elam “Moderate” in this day and age means continuing the status quo, and that is unacceptable.
    Ishmael Abraham One can have a moderate ideology but a tempered radical strategy like Karbala.

     

    Nick Elam I would argue that my views are only really radical in America where the Overton window is tightly controlled. When imperialist exploitation is the norm, I guess anything outside of that is by definition radical.
    Ishmael Abraham Fb seems to have started to enforce that window.
    If liberals overcome their spiritual anarchism, they can find allies among compassionate ant-imperial conservatives.

  • Pro-traditional Hindus and sexual revolution

    God bless pro-traditional Hindus for resisting imperialist sexual revolution. Muslims and West have Abrahamic theology in common and Muslims and Hindus have cultural simplicity in common. May God blend Abrahamic theology and simple culture in 21st century India.

  • Urdu poetry about war torn Muslim children

    Urdu poetry about tragedy of Muslim children being killed. One of the verses says that the child realizes that it is not a video game.

    شاید اک درندہ ہو گا
    یا اک برف کا پتلا ہو گا
    انساں کی شکل کا یا پھر
    چلتا پھرتا روبوٹ ہو گا
    روبوٹ جس نے بھیجا ہو گا
    اسکا کون سا مذہب ہو گا
    کس نے اسکو خریدا ہو گا
    کس قیمت پر بیچا ہو گا
    کیا کیا کہ کر بھیجا ہو گا

    جس پل وہ قیامت آی تھی
    بندوق کو اس نے تانا ہو گا
    بیگ کو اس نے چھینا ہو گا
    خوف کو اس نے دیکھا ہو گا
    پھول سا بچہ سمٹا ہو گا
    دل یوں زور سے دھڑکا ہو گا
    ماں کو اس نے ڈھونڈا ہو گا
    تڑپ تڑپ کے چیخا ہو گا
    جس فرش پہ ٹانگیں کانپیں اسکی
    اک بار تو وہ بھی لرزہ ہو گا
    اک بار تو چھت بھی کانپی ہو گی
    ہوا کا زور بھی ٹوٹا ہو گا
    کیا پھر ایسا ممکن ہے
    انسان کا دل نہ پگھلا ہو گا
    پتھر کا بت نہ ٹوٹا ہو گا
    یا پھر وہ اک روبوٹ ہو گا

    ہاں بچہ بھی یہ سمجھا ہو گا
    جیسی اسکی ویڈیو گیم ہے
    اس جیسا یہ منظر ہو گا
    گیم ختم تو بات ختم
    دکھ کی یہ سوغات ختم
    پھر سے سب کچھ زندہ ہو گا
    پھر سے ہاتھ میں بستہ ہو گا
    موت، کفن، قبر، دفن
    وہ تو یہ نہ سمجھا ہو گا
    گیم ختم نہ ہونے پر
    دل اسکا کیسے ٹوٹا ہو گا
    ماں کو جب وہ ترسا ہو گا
    باپ کا راستہ تکتا ہو گا
    اک حشر کا عالم چھایا ہو گا
    بس یہ مجھے بتلا دو مونا ،
    اس ظالم نے کیا پایا ہو گا….؟؟

  • Benazir and semi-Shia liberal theology

    Her father was a liberal Shia. His name means the double edged sword of Ali the Commander of the Faithful. Ali fought a civil war against Mother of Believers called Jamal which shows that Shia faith is the death of political feminism. Ironically his father opposed a democratic Islamist leader who has the DNA of Commander of the faithful, her Shia faith ascribes to. So, her liberal theology is not internally consistent. I admire how she had the self respect to cover her head and how she disagreed with self hating Ayan Hirsi Ali whose country Somalia does not seem to have ecumenical thinkers like in Pakistan. Her symbolic head covering is sufficient for me to conclude that she did not agree with western sexual revolution although her liberal theology makes it nearly impossible to criticize it. I pray for empowerment of Muslim women based on liberation theology rather than anarchist and narcissistic feminism which seems to explain the highest divorce rate in the world in US. His marriage with a secular traditional male of average IQ may be a hint of the psychological fact that narcissistic women prefer weak marriage partners. I respect her more than western feminists but lesser than an American woman of faith Margaret Marcus who sensed the imminent sexual revolution with foresight and migrated to Pakistan.

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2459714.Reconciliation

  • Happiness and love for Prophetic family

    The disciple said: When I am alone with Satan, I become unhappy but when I remember my love for Prophetic family, I become happy. The scholar said: Religion is all about love as mentioned in Quran 3:31.

    أبو عبيدة الحذّاء : دَخَلتُ عَلى أبي جَعفَرٍ عليه السّلام ، فَقُلتُ : بِأَبي أنتَ واُمّي ، رُبَّما خَلا بِيَ الشَّيطانُ فَخَبُثَت نَفسي ، ثُمَّ ذَكَرتُ حُبّي إيّاكُم وَ انقِطاعي إلَيكُم فَطابَت نَفسي ؟ فَقالَ : يا زِيادُ ، وَيحَكَ ! و مَا الدّينُ إلَّا الحُبُّ !! ألا تَرى إلى قَولِ اللهِ تَعالى : إِن كُنتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اللَّهَ فَاتَّبِعُونِى يُحْبِبْكُمُ اللَّهُ

  • Story of repentance of an alcoholic Prophetic descendant

    A Prophetic descendant was a professed alcoholic. He once visited a student of knowledge for some help, but he did not allow him to enter his home, so he came back sadly. During journey to pilgrimage, a scholar among Prophetic descendants did not allow that student to enter his presence, so he wept. When he wept he was allowed to enter. He asked why he was refused although he loved the Prophetic family. He replied: Because you refused entry to my cousin. He wept again and stated: I only did this so that he repents from alcohol. The scholar replied: Respect them any way otherwise you will become a loser. When he came back, the same cousin came again. This time the student respected him a lot. The cousin was surprised. Then he told him the story of the scholar during pilgrimage. He felt guilty and repented. He came back to home and destroyed the bottles of alcohol, and started spending time in Masjid until death and then he was buried near a pious female Prophetic descendant.

    This is an important lesson for physical Jews.

  • Sins and economic anxieties

    A Hadith text: There are sins which are only forgiven by economic anxieties he suffers in seeking financial grace of God.

    أن من الذنوب ذنوباً لا يكفرها إلا الهم في طلب المعيشة

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  • Islam is between being too nice and being too argumentative

    Ali bin Abi Talib said:

    كثرة الوفاق نفاق، وكثرة الخلاف شقاق

    Submissively agreeing too much is dishonest and rebelliously arguing too much is unnecessarily divisive.

  • Sufi presuppositionalism and sexual revolution.

    Imam Marc Manley

    That every Islamic school I’ve come across does not have, as a part of their overall curriculum, classes dealing with the foundational philosophical and intellectual challenges young Muslims will face in this society — waiting instead for them to be ambushed in college — only reveals how out of touch we are with ourselves.

    Islam in America will not perpetuate itself. It will be an act of determination.

     

    Sufi presuppositionalism is successfully resisting sexual revolution, and if sexual revolution is not resisted, even Razi and Averroes cannot save your faith.

  • Wahdat al wujud and marriage

    wahdat

    Unity of being(wahdat al wujud) can be nearly achieved by adding God to the triangle that includes husband and wife at the base. But still the pinnacle in impossible before Eden.