A spiritual Ishmaelite

Category: Interfaith dialogue

  • Philosophy, Balaam and Maccabees

    Philosophy of polytheists is about Machiavellian eloquence of Balaam. Moses(p) is said to be not very eloquent but spiritual leadership(Imamate ) rested in him. May God bless us with intellectual and spiritual Maccabees.

  • Only the lovers of Prophetic family feel the awe of eclipses

    Ali Bin Al-Husayn(p) said: ‘No one feels awe of these two (eclipses) nor is anyone intimidated by these two Signs except the one
    who was from our lovers . So if (these Signs) have happened, so be in awe of Allah Mighty and Majestic, then return to Him’

    -Al-Kafi

    Only the genuinely faithful experience transcendental awe of natural events to the fullest.

     

  • Tank McNamara and sectarianism

    { Sunni Islam is a prime example and has several sects (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafiʿi, Hanbali, and Ẓāhirī) that vary rather significantly.} Being a Prima Scriptura Hanafi I do not think they are sects rather they are schools because we disagree on minor issues like where to place hands during prayers. You can say that Hanafi Ottomans and Salafi Saudis politicized this divide but even now the major Salafi scholar Albani had a Hanafi father with a degree of mutual respect. Even Sunni Shafiis and Zaydi Shias have a history of co-existence in Yemen before Iranian and modernist influence. Modern hypersexuality provokes our sectarian narcissism as a defense mechanism against temptations. because both sexual and sectarian other is seen through a xenophobic lens. I have transcended all the sects and now I follow an intra-Ishmaelic and even intra-Abrahamic conservative anti-secular ecumenism. 

    https://westernfriend.org/media/violence-and-religious-extremism

  • Intellectual and political awe and secular disenchantment

    حدثنا علي بن الحسين، عن علي بن حسان، عن عبد الرحمن بن كثير، عن أبي عبد الله (عليه السلام) في قوله عز و جل: { أَتَىٰ أَمْرُ ٱللَّهِ فَلاَ تَسْتَعْجِلُوهُ }.

    قال: ” هو أمرنا، أمر الله عز و جل أن لا يستعجل به حتى يؤيده الله بثلاثة أجناد: الملائكة، و المؤمنين، و الرعب،

    Tafsir Al-Bahrani Quran 16:1

    The sacred texts of Islam suggest that God grants victory to faith through a sense of awe as mentioned in Quran 18:18. Currently secular philosophy has monopolized the sense of intellectual and political awe but even secularism will undergo a disenchantment in future God willing.

  • Did God know Himself before big bang?

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    I asked the Prophetic descendant (p) , ‘Did God, the Majestic, the Glorious, know
    Himself before He created the creation?’” He replied, “Yes, He knew Himself.” I
    further asked, “Did He see and hear His Own Self?” He replied, “God did not need
    such things because He did not ask or demand it. He is His Own self and His Own self is He. His power is dominant and He does not need to name His Own self. He chose His Own name for the sake of others so they can call Him. Until one is not called by means of his names he is not recognized. The fist name He chose for His Own self was the Most
    High, the Great because He is above all things. It then means that Allah and His name al-‘Ali al-‘Azim is His first name. The Most High, He is above all things.

    -Al-Kafi

  • Islam and sex positive religions

    Sex positive religions end up sexualising spirituality instead of spiritualising intimacy. I think Islam achieves that without sexualising spirituality. Hadith teaches that the best transient happiness in this world is being intimate with a spiritual wife. Even the infinite bliss in the next world is sensual in nature which western Christians criticize because they believe in an asexual heaven.

    https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-the-darkness/201201/transcendent-sex

  • Jinns may be a  traditional allusion to psychosis

    أبه جِنَّة؟
    Is he possessed by demons/jinn?
    فأخبر أنه ليس بمجنون
    They said: He is not mad/majnun.
    It means that jinns may be a  traditional allusion to psychosis, or at least psychosis is a natural subset of supernatural possession.

    https://sunnah.com/muslim/29/34

  • While western Christianity sleeps

    To a Christian who calls atheism irrelevant:

    You call atheism irrelevant which means you are ignorant. Atheists are spending most of their time hating God which has started to export apostasy to Middle East which will lead to WWIII. We know how to defend our faith. West does not care about faith anymore. Prophet Jesus(p) is coming soon as a Muslim to defeat trinity, sodomy and apostasy while western Christianity sleeps.

  • Prophetic praxis of sunnah and traditional/modern narcissism

    A modernist Muslim calls beating children and homophobia ignorant:

    Those who beat children represent traditional narcissism and Sunnah cures it which teaches that ideal faith is not possible without being an ideal parent.

    Those who support homosexual defiance represent modern narcissism and Sunnah also cures it through an enabling culture of self-directed neuroplasticity.

  • Worldly wife and husband and Paradise

    الطبرسي: روى العياشي بالإسناد عن أبي بصير، عن أبي عبد الله (عليه السلام)، قال: قلت له: جعلت فداك، أخبرني عن الرجل المؤمن، له امرأة مؤمنة، يدخلان الجنة، يتزوج أحدهما الآخر؟ فقال: “يا أبا محمد، إن الله حكم عدل، إذا كان هو أفضل منها خيره، فإن اختارها كانت من أزواجه، و إن كانت هي خيرا منه خيرها، فإن اختارته كان زوجا لها”.

    Tafsir Al-Bahrani Quran 55:46

    The disciple asked the Prophetic descendant(p) : If both a believing  man and woman enter Paradise will they marry each other. He said: God is just. If the husband were superior/afdal to her in piety and virtue , he will be given choice to marry her or not and if the wife were superior to him in piety and virtue , she will be given choice to marry him or not.

    امام جعفر الصادق سے پوچھا گيا اگر دونوں میاں بيوی جنت ميں جائيں تو کيا انکی شادی ھوگی آپ نے فرمایا اللہ انصاف والا ھے اگر شوھر زيادہ نيک ہوا تو اسے شادی کرنے يا نہ کرنے کا اختيار ديا جاۓ گا اور اگر بيوی زيادہ نيک ہوئی تو اسے شادی کرنے يا نہ کرنے کا اختيار ديا جاۓ گا