Emma Roberts, modernist cultural xenophobia and traditional sobriety

I just watched her movie the wild child. I liked her role especially when she says I am a nun. We in the traditional world have grown up with the modernist mockery in the same way she as an American laughs at the British. But she ends up co-opting the British sobriety. May all modernist women co-opt the traditional sobriety before dying.

https://hollowverse.com/emma-roberts/

Divisive rabbis and Imams and hilm the Abrahamic tolerance

Ishmael Abraham Imam Ali peace be upon him said: I would refuse the kingdom of entire universe if it involved taking a grain from an ant’s mouth unjustly.

Alperovich Anatoly Exactly . Islam demands heart kindness towards god’s creatures. What we see is donkey torture . Someone have to tell Hamas about that kindness.

Ishmael Abraham Both IDF and Hamas should try to have more hilm(tolerance) like their father Abraham peace be upon him otherwise atheism will prevail. Torah talks about righteous goyim like Job peace be upon him.

Alperovich Anatoly Ishmael Abraham job is pre abrahamic . I thought nk
Ishmael Abraham But IDF will have a secular leader who will seduce weak Jews into following him called Armilus.
Ishmael Abraham He is post Abrahamic.
Alperovich Anatoly IDF is a system , bent under political rule
Ishmael Abraham Can Knesset choose a righteous descendant of Job peace be upon him?
Alperovich Anatoly Ishmael Abraham there are goym in knesset 
Alperovich Anatoly Judaism depends on context. If you accept 613 orders and prohibitions , you are one . As Ruth ( 613) רות. Mother of king David
Ishmael Abraham I think I follow more than 613 
Ishmael Abraham West does not care about commandments due to antinomianism of Paul.

Alperovich Anatoly Ishmael Abraham paying the church is enough by that approach.

Ishmael Abraham Have you started reciting Shema every night. Imam Ali(p) did not miss recitation even during the night of civil war.
Alperovich Anatoly No. Shame on me. Much stress and traveling for business . Inshaalah i finish that project of synagogue, and abrahamic tradition culinary and cultural center I push for two years, also to teach natives seven laws of Bnei Noah…
Alperovich Anatoly Some people wanting to convert , but rabbi here tells them, look, if you cant pursuit the principles of seven laws of Bnei Noah, it is senseless and useless

Ishmael Abraham Real love for God is proven during stress. My prayers weakened during heartbreak after a modernist Abrahamite woman rejected my proposal.

Alperovich Anatoly Ishmael Abraham thats how my voyage started. I analyzed and understood thats because we live in Roman world, a woman isnt able to be a woman.
Ishmael Abraham Rabbis can be divisive. They expelled Spinoza. Was Spinoza pious?
Ishmael Abraham I want to be like Maccabees in this world of greco-roman paganism.
Alperovich Anatoly Expelled from where? Judaism is like jurisprudence. Rabbis are doctors and layers ( daianim)

 

Ishmael Abraham From synagogue.
Alperovich Anatoly From Din Dayan dan .
Alperovich Anatoly Ishmael Abraham synagogue as a building , or like they expelled him from judaism? 
Ishmael Abraham I am not sure about latter.
Alperovich Anatoly I never knew that . Jew born jew dies jew and judged as jew in the gate of the next world .
Alperovich Anatoly It is impossible. Synagogue is not an institution. Hassidism is .
Ishmael Abraham Do you know a famous rabbi who is ecumenical(uniting different sects) but conservative.
Alperovich Anatoly I can pray in any synagogue . Any . We dont have that division. The division is by “pshat “or by talmud . And Sefaradi by pshat , ashkenazi by talmud . I mean everything life . But anything must be proven. Like the legal practice
Ishmael Abraham Division can be between all children of Abraham(p). I like apolitical, ecumenical and conservative rabbis.

Conversation with a modernist ex-Ismaili about the accuracy of Quranic Christology

 

{Here are six points demonstrating that Muhammad copied Jesus from Christianity with little understanding.}
It shows your own lack of understanding. Ebionites were 1st century Christians who had an accurate understanding of Jesus peace be upon him and Quran reiterated that accurate theology which brilliant minds like Isaac Newton re-discovered too later than Quran.
{Adding to this hypothesis is that there were fewer Christians living in Arabia, many of them being heterodox sects with non-mainstream belief. }
The term heterodox only reflects the dictators of Council of Nicea who colluded with Romans to enforce an inaccurate theology otherwise, the Quranic theology of Ebionites and Arians was mainstream in first century.
{There is no evidence of any Injeel (الإنجيل) / Gospel of Jesus (إنجيل يسوع) sent to Jesus.} Just like there are six books of Hadith, this does not imply that there is no original Hadith. Likewise existence of so many Gospels does not mean there was no original Gospel. The later version are subsets while the original source is a superset. It is the job of the researcher to find out what is authentic Gospel and what is apocryphal.
{The Virgin Birth}
Quran venerates Mary peace be upon her because she is an object of two extremes between Christian sects. The Protestants underestimate her while Catholics over-glorify her to theotokos. Quran also addresses over-glorification along with veneration by naming a Chapter after her. But since you are enchanted by modern intellect and are xenophobic towards the tradition of Ishmaelites, you treated Quran in a superficial and derisive manner due to a liberal Ismaili upbringing.
{The Syriac Infancy Gospel is one such document, considered a fabricated document invented to prove Jesus’ divinity. This exact story ends up in the Quran. }
When even the best theologians of Christianity do not agree with one another, it requires supernatural intelligence to filter out information accurately while copying from so many sources. Quran mentions the miracle of speaking in cradle but excludes divinity. How could one filter out the first century theology from all that.
{The stories about Jesus make more sense in Christianity than Islam. Well in Christianity we have a convincing answer. He was the son of God. }
How is it convincing when even people without virgin birth are called sons of God. And, anthropomorphism does not make logical and philosophical sense.
{In Islam he’s just “anointed”. Makes little sense does it? } You are not an expert of Arabic linguistics so it does not make sense to you. Anointed is not the only meaning of Messiah. Muslims perform ablution and during that they wipe their heads called masah. And, Jesus peace be upon him wiped the patients and they were cured. Quran 9:2 also uses the same root word for travelling. Since, he travalled in the Middle East for preaching he is called Messiah.
{ Islam again doesn’t explain why Jesus is Kalimatullah.} Because the books that explain it are in Arabic and you are not an expert of Arabic linguistics. Quran says that when God intends to create something ex nihilo he says: ‘Be’ and it is. The word ‘Be’ or Kun is the Logos of John but the Logos of Quran is more accurate because it is not co-equal with God although co-eternal in Sunni theology but non co-eternal in Shia theology of your father.

medium.com { Six “proofs” that Muhammad copied Jesus from Christianity }

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Post traumatic growth and problem of evil

Nick Elam If I were Job I wouldn’t be loyal to the entity that inflicted such unwarranted suffering upon me.
Ishmael Abraham I share DNA with Job peace be upon him. I suffer from a chronic disease. And, I believe in post traumatic growth. I have grown in empathy with fellow patients. I have got more passion to improve health discourse in my country. Medical science and philanthropy would not exist and grow if there were no problems at all. Problem of evil confuses the superficial mind. I can see the broader picture beyond my selfish cocoon.

Conversation with an American secularist regarding starting to read Quran

Ishmael Abraham Quran 90:13 taught liberation of slaves unlike Bible. Bible was meant for a tribal society while Quran is meant for global audience.

Nick Elam I’m certainly not nearly as familiar with the Quran as I am with the Bible, I intend to study it thoroughly someday.
Ishmael Abraham The stories are same but more accurate as Reza Aslan got it. For example, Bible talks about six days of creation and resting on seventh day while Quran says that God is not a static entity who needs rest rather God is a dynamic entity. Reading Eastern translations is not helpful because they give a bad taste. Reading western translators like Leopold Weiss( Asad), Arberry and Joseph Lumbard (Study Quran) is more helpful.

Nick Elam Now I’ve heard some say that the Quran can only truly be understood in Arabic. What do you think about that?
Ishmael Abraham Reading cover to cover is difficult, just like reading scientific journals cover to cover is difficult because one cannot process too much data at once. Using a Google search based topical approach is more helpful. For example, looking for the instances of the word fear or love can give you an idea how faithful understand them. Like Odin Text research found out how Quran is less violent than Bible by looking at the number of instances a word is used.

Ishmael Abraham Arabic helps you to appreciate the beauty of the text more. But one can the moral lessons in any language. But there are many Americans who have mastered Quranic Arabic like Jonathan Brown, Hamza Yusuf, Dr Umar Faruq Abdullah, but it depends upon the amount of passion which is deficient in 21st century. Truth can be boring like science but the courageous overcome the boredom and beyond that one finds true intellectual and mystic ecstasy.

Some Halal jokes

وعن أيوب قال: “سمعتُ رجلاً قال لعكرمة: “فلان قذفني في النوم”، قال: “اضرِبْ ظلَّه ثمانين”؛ (سير أعلام النبلاء: 5/ 19).

Someone said to Ikrimah: Someone has falsely accused me in a dream. He replied: Flog his shadow eighty times.

وعن الأعمش قال: “أتى رجلٌ الشعبيَّ، فقال: ما اسم امرأة إبليس؟ قال: “ذاك عُرْسٌ ما شهدته”؛ (المصدر السابق: 4/ 312).

Sha’bi was asked: What is the name of wife of Satan? He replied: I didn’t participate in his wedding.

وجاء رجل إلى أبي حنيفة فقال له: “إذا نزعتُ ثيابي ودخلتُ النهرَ أغتسل، فإلى القبلة أتوجَّه، أم إلى غيرها؟ فقال له: “الأفضل أن يكون وجهك إلى جهة ثيابك؛ لئلا تُسْرَق”؛ (المراح في المزاح: ص 43).

Abu Hanifah was asked: If I remove my clothes and enter the river to bath, can I face the direction of prayer the qiblah. He replied: You should face the direction of your clothes to avoid them being stolen.

In an annual congregation a scholar told a story: An eagle and a dove were sitting on a branch of tree and a hunter came. Eagle said to dove: You are halal, I am haram, so he will kill you. The hunter killed the eagle. The dove said: These days people do not care about haram and halal, they care about mota mal ( an Urdu word for fat meat ).

http://www.alukah.net/sharia/0/99221/#ixzz5EBItDH3Q

Jerry Sexton I didn’t know you had a sense of humor, Ishmael. Refreshing!
Ishmael Abraham Islam had this humour even before I was born 
Ishmael Abraham I like intelligent and ethical humour and dislike vulgar humour. But quality reduces quantity. I partly like English-speaking Pakistani-American comedian Kumail Nanjiani and Urdu-speaking Pakistani comedian Azizi.

An intracultural letter to a literary modern educated female compatriot

I am happy to know a literary compatriot figure. I have explored your areas of interest and found  many common themes with my own literary explorations. Being a literary woman, one naturally explores western feminism, but since feminism is seen as a foreign construct in traditional cultures so I do not know a modern literary figure who has gained public acceptance especially in the traditional feminine world like my own mother who is a veiled zoologist and other highly educated female family members who strive for ethical perfection in our Machiavellian semi-traditional and semi-modern world.
So, exploring feminist theosophy would create an intercultural bridge which may initially be frowned upon by both blind modernists and blind traditionalists due to their cynicism and skepticism, but this is what is needed in 21st century to at least decelerate the tragic violent intercultural and intracultural conflict which literary and intellectual figures have a moral responsibility to contemplate upon and offer solutions to the traditional civilization.
The common themes between us I talked about include post-colonialism and psychoanalysis among others. I like existential psychology because Kierkegaard wrote about knights of faith in Fear and Trembling which defines our spiritual identity and we celebrate it unconsciously every year without knowing the philosophical underpinnings Kierkegaard contemplated upon.
Noam Chomsky may appear to be against colonial projects but I am skeptical because cultural imperialism which he implicitly promotes is more harmful for traditional cultures than even the military industrial complex because if we lose our identity, then resisting physical assault is without any purpose.
And, in the end, since I know sacred texts, I appreciate the spirituality represented by your name. Your name shows the transcendence of the One while I descend from the twin brother of Jacob peace be upon him ( your last name)  called Esau peace be upon him. Einstein due to his origin in spirituality of Jacob peace be upon him, talked about how quantum mechanics ( my technical area) is described by these two historical figures. 

Ethics of elections, cultural struggles and narcissistic and pharisaical temptations

The winners of voting should try to work for an ideal greater than democracy which is gaining the respect of even the minority which chooses to disagree. Pious scientists and researchers can contribute a lot in the inter- cultural struggle, but the intra-cultural struggle is even more painful as evident in story of karbala. . All candidates should make organizational justice their top priority because traditional cultures lack it and our spiritual ideals for which university stands should not be betrayed by its own members. There is a temptation called phariseeism about which both the leaders and followers should be careful. A pharisaical voter or employee exaggerates in criticism of opponents without acknowledging virtues and merits, while a pharisaical leader or boss exaggerates in criticism of subordinates without acknowledging virtues and merits. Another problem in academic atmospheres is narcissism because many of the teachers have academic achievements but this should not stop us from admiring others and looking at weaknesses within, because it is win-win cultures which end up being the leaders of humanity. Even the Companions disagreed in voting but still all the candidates deserve respect. Not voting for anyone does not and should not imply hatred, because even the best Companions could not win perfectly unanimous political support of all members of community, but still support of majority is a practical method.