A spiritual Ishmaelite

Category: Dialogues with secularists/modernists

  • Quran 18:11, sleeping ears and BDNF

    Scientist have discovered that your ears, or at least the mechanism that protects your hearing, goes to sleep at night.

    During the day a hormone called brain-derived-neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is distributed into the ears.

    http://phb.secondsensehearing.com/content/do-your-ears-sleep

  • Prophetic Sunnah and evolution of religion

    Jerry Sexton The evolution of religion. They all change or die out.
    It’s natural selection.
    Ishmael Abraham In Islam, the Prophetic praxis of sunnah claims to live on by stopping negative change as heretic anti-sunnah innovations are pejoratively described as bidah. And, Sunnah traditionalism is successfully resisting sexual revolution more than any other traditional culture.

  • Islamic eschatology, rise of modern west and end of slavery

    Prophetic Hadith predicting the rise of modern west and end of slavery. A good tool for spiritual paradigm shift among modern humans. Orthodox Islam should be skeptical of his anti-traditionalism but he is still a lesser evil than blind anti-traditionalists.

  • Karim husbands: An Islamic text praising compassionate beta men

    عن علي بن أبي طالب رضي الله عنه عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال :

    ( خيركم خيركم لأهله ، وأنا خيركم لأهلي ، ما أكرم النساء إلا كريم ، ولا أهانهن إلا لئيم )

    وأنا أحب أن أكون كريماً مغلوباً من أن أكون لئيماً غالباً

    Only a noble and chivalrous person respects women, and only a mean person insults them. I would love to be a passive noble person than to be a mean aggressive person.

     

     

  • Future golden age of peace and Prophet Muhammad(p)

    Mutual enmity and hatred will disappear. Every harmful animal will be made harmless, so that a small boy will be able to put his hand into a snake’s mouth without being harmed, a small girl will be able to make a lion run away from her, and a wolf will go among sheep as if he were a sheepdog. The Earth will be filled with peace as a container is filled with water. People will be in complete agreement, and only Allah will be worshipped. Wars will cease…” (Ibn Majah, Kitab al-Fitan, Tradition No. 4077, 2: 1363)

  • Percy Shelley and Revolt of Islam

    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.

  • Islam, Adam Grant, humble narcissism and authenticity

    My message to Adam Grant:

    I read your thoughts about humble narcissism and authenticity.

    Tapping into the power of humble narcissism

    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.

  • Comparing white Muslims and brown atheists

    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.

    Abdul-halim Vaz That’s a weird way to measure success.
    Ishmael Abraham I think IQ of converts is not a good measure. There is a Hadith that majority of people in Paradise will be bulh having average IQ. Quran 110:2 talks about afwaj or crowds entering Islam. But even quantity is not a good measure because a Prophet existed who failed to gain a single convert. Most important thing is duration of your preaching. Noah preaching for 950 years of calendar of his time mentioned in Quran is a a good point to remember.
    Hussain Murtaza Why do you want white converts specifically??. Why not Asian, subcontinent and African converts?
    Ishmael Abraham Ahmadis have focused on Africa which shows the missionary neglect by mainstream Muslims.
    Ishmael Abraham What I intend to state is that I want the predominantly white modern atheist movement to remain localized to its greco-roman pagan origins.
    Frank G Hahn I prefer old Norse religion myself the gods and Eddic stories tell tales of old from my home land which I prefer over Middle East myths
    Ishmael Abraham Christ peace be upon him civilized you otherwise you would have been annihilated from history.

  • The pro-Ishmaelite community must compete liberal Murji’ah in rights of servants of God

    Ishmael Abraham being a Pakistani I feel ashamed for not being qualified as a nation to treat a sick traveler to our country in a compassionate and professional way. 
    Laura Weichselbaumer No reason for shame. There is no blame. This sickness can be found about everywhere under many different names (Costa Cramps, Dehli Belly, Montezuma’s Revenge, and on and on). If there were to be blame in the situation, then the blame would be on myself. I am a very experienced traveler, including into developing geographies. I certainly have the knowledge to have protected myself from this, but after weeks of beautiful touring in Pakistan, my diligence toward self care became lax in the last couple days. At any rate, it all works for good. I hope that you are able to put down this sense of shame and capture the message of goodness in the story, at the end. 🙂
    Ishmael Abraham Thanks for your empathetic understanding. But please educate our traditional culture about improving health infrastructure because Hadith teaches that after prayers and obligatory virtues the most beloved action to God is to make believers happy. West is weak in God’s rights (huquq Allah) and East is weak in rights of servants of God. (huquq al ibaad)

  • Chomsky and neo-Roman liberal discipline

    He doesn’t seem to like modern educated orthodox Muslims who can change both modern and traditional societies because he seems to like neo-roman liberal discipline.

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