A spiritual Ishmaelite

Category: Middle East

  • How to help Trump overcome his pseudo-religious pseudo-Christian narcissism?

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·SUNDAY, 10 DECEMBER 2017
    Alperovich Anatoly
    I am so glad for That Trump’s declaration on Jerusalem. All the antisemites crawled out of their holes. I am fighting antisemites for a week now. And that’s , what i was born for. Haleluya for that man . How could i dislike Donald , for decades. I cant even understand now .
    He’ll change his mind when he no longer needs the distraction.
    Chris MK I thought you hated him. Didn’t you say something about this white supremacist disrespecting you country when he visited? I keep saying he’s a friend of the Jewish people but people say no.
    Ishmael Abraham May God make Trump, Zionists and Ishmaelites the true spiritual Semites and Abrahamites so that we resist the flood of Sodom and apostasy together.
    Alperovich Anatoly Amen. You always find something new to add to discussion.
    Ishmael Abraham I want to be the modern pro-Ishmael Maimonides.
    Alperovich Anatoly Wish you all the success. You have the restraint . That’s the game changer.
    Alperovich Anatoly Talmud says , that the toughest test for Abraham, ( be his memory blessed) , was the martial acts, in Beer sheva on the way to Egypt , and rescuing Lot . Because he was Fidel, devoted , kind to creatures and wise by how creator put him on this earth, but he wasnt a hero . So when man do for his creator , something he wasn’t meant by his creational plan, thats the greatest hesed, or spiritual gain. The beard is 13 measures of hesed and rahamim. I know you understand that .
    Alperovich Anatoly Ishmael Abraham the vision of Joseph in the pit in Egypt , two thousand stairs up, Roman slavery . It will end exactly in Iovel, hamsin years from now. We may be still alive to see prophecies come true and sodom fall.
    Ishmael Abraham Eastern Orthodox Christians understand the rabbinic significance of beard, but an Eastern Orthodox monk unfriended me because I disagreed with trinitarian idolatry.
    Ishmael Abraham Quran has a Chapter about Joseph peace be upon him, and when the second consultation-based Caliph of Islam recited this Chapter in pre-dawn fajr prayers people could hear his almost-silent tears(nashij) because he was tempted by Potiphar’s wife, and today Sodom offers believers millions of Potiphar’s wives.

  • Juan Cole, anti-war movement and Islamic schisms

    Bernard Lewis has said that intrafaith violence in Christian history had been more violent than intrafaith violence within Islam. May be this is due to intersection of intrafaith schismatic debates and invention of gunpowder. While schismatic war within Islam had been early when gunpowder had not been invented. As far as Sola Scriptura- Gnostic schism is concerned, this is repeating in Muslim world in the form of Salafi-Sufi debate. Self-righteousness can be wrong on both sides but can also bring genuine reform if suffused with compassionate spirit. For example, Madkhali an apolitical Salafi scholar has admitted that our harshness has adversely affected our sola scriptura movement. While, Hudson institute has described anti-blasphemy Barelwi Sufis in Pakistan as extremists. So, this superficial and inaccurate dichotomy on western pre-conceived notions can lead to cruel foreign policies making the western anti-war movement an ethical failure like Christian humanism which is more Scriptually acceptable to orthodox Muslim due to it’s concomitant dissent of sexual revolution. May God bless all the truth seekers. I learnt about you through your healthy and courageous criticism of MEMRI and how they promoted intrafaith schisms in the Middle East through their inaccurate and zealous propaganda. Indian pro-mystic Sola Scriptura scholar Shah Waliullah has successfully resolved the Salafi-Sufi debate and Dr. Marcia Hermansen has translated his book The Conclusive Argument from God into English. Since, extremists in each denomination are not exposed to ecumenical literature due to sectarian xenophobia, intrafaith ecumenical activists should compassioantely introduce the sectarian fanatics to ecumenical ideas and I want to work on this and ecumenical Christians should work on it too to avoid secularization of their own future generations.

  • Discussing the linguistic and mystic definitions of bulh or the evil blind person with a mufti (a specialist of legal opinions)

    Ishmael Abraham
    Muhammad Mushrraf Well. It is very much difficult to translate “Bulh” in hadith with what was done by that guy.
    Brother is referring to Freddie Mercury and another hypocritical anti-gay politician
    Ishmael Abraham Both of these men were informed about western culture and uninformed about One God and His Messengers(as).
    Ishmael Abraham I love this definition: عن أبي عثمان : الأبله هو الأبله في دنياه ، الفقيه في دينه
    The saint Abu Uthman An Nahdi says: Bulh means someone unaware about his worldliness and someone with deep cognitive and sentient understanding of his religion.
    Ishmael Abrahamعن عاصم الأحول ، قال : بلغني أن أبا عثمان النهدي كان يصلي ما بين المغرب والعشاء مائة ركعة
    It is said that this saint who offers his definition used to offer 100 units of prayer between sunset prayer and night prayer
    Ishmael Abrahamعبد القاهر بن السري : عن أبيه ، عن جده ، قال : كان أبو عثمان من قضاعة ، وسكن الكوفة ، فلما قتل الحسين ، تحول إلى البصرة وقال : لا أسكن بلدا قتل فيه ابن بنت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
    When Prophetic grandson, peace be upon him, was martyred, he migrated to Basra from Kufah while saying: I will not live in the city where the son of the daughter of Messenger(s) of God was martyred.
    Ishmael Abrahamقال : وحج ستين مرة
    It is said that the same saint performed Hajj pilgrimage 60 times.

  • Quran 24:23, the evil-blind bulh and ghafilat: Freddie Mercury and fall from grace of an anti-gay politician

    My father won a scholarship to study at Maryland but he chose to return due to consumerist obsession although he did not appreciate the current sexual obsession two decades ago. I stumbled here as I was researching about Parsi singer Freddie Mercury who hated his past so much that he even changed his name from Farokh which means the happy person in Persian and Persian mystic Ghazali has written Alchemy of Happiness on the concept of psychological and soteriological happiness. Modern culture is glorified by western politicians as ‘offering’ creative destruction of the traditional world. This is natural and logical because absence of spiritual light of first commandment only zoological darkness will prevail. Even a Parsi scientist of Pakistani origin ended up being pulled by the black hole of sexual revolution. His case is curious for traditionalists because he died of AIDS. This lawmaker corroborates another Hadith that majority of inhabitants of Paradise will be those who are bulh/blind in materialistic and secular sense but enlightened in the spiritual and scriptural sense. Which implies that when people acquires secular, materialistic and political awareness, but do not have spiritual enlightenment most of them end up being victims of zoological instincts themselves after being provoked by the external fire. Like a Pakistani surgeon died of Congo fever after operating a patient suffering from Congo. God praises such evil-blind women of faith in Quran 24:23. God bless my evil-blind zoologist mother who chose not to work in intermingling corporate culture and still she does not use facebook like my father.

    http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/11/21/anti-gay-married-republican-lawmaker-sexually-harassed-dozens-of-young-men/

  • To Theo Hobson: How failed deism and sola scriptura leads to atheism?

    I want to revive the missionary legacy of what Quran calls a hawari/disciple Thomas who was martyred in India by polytheists for his monotheism. And, today Muslims in India, especially, Kashmir continue that legacy. I have witnessed a relationship between Sola Scriptura movements and deistic movements within both West and Middle East because both dislike the religious tradition, and many apostates tend to be influenced by Sola Scriptura and deism, but not everyone has the fervour of Herbert of Cherbury to dive in the ocean of love and ocean of logos at the same time. For example, Dawud At Tai a saint threw his books in the river to focus on worship and divine remembrance but his friend Imam Zufar managed to reconcile both which requires greater faith and greater scholarship. There is a Hadith that those who understand the logos deeply are more effective against the Evil than the worshipers, however, a Prophetic descendant warns that scholarship which does not have attendant piety is worthless. So, Islamic worldview has been able to contemplate and reconcile these issues centuries ago when West was relatively ignorant about both Scripture and logic. So, I was happy to find a western affirmation of my own conclusion. Thanks and may God bless you brother Theo Hobson.

  • To a self-described Salafi feminist: How company of tahajjud-observant sisters can help overcoming anarchist narcissism

    I think Sayyidah Nafisah, peace be upon her, is the pinnacle of female saints among the later Salaf. A woman who has memorized the Quran in 21st century would be better than a public speaker which can induce anarchist narcissism which has led to many divorces in the traditional world. Psychologists say that sign of narcissism is marrying a weak submissive man instead of an assertive scholar of Salaf. However if you develop zuhd and asecticism of Salaf through the company of tahajjud-observant sisters, along with their scholarship, you may not develop anarchist narcissism.
    For one of the best articles on psychology of a sensual Paradise an idea which is based on the Jewish idea of a physical Paradise of milk and honey as opposed to Christian idea of no marriage in heaven which an atheist commentator described equivalent to Hell.

  • May God save bioengineering from military industrial complex

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·WEDNESDAY, 15 NOVEMBER 2017
    I have always been skeptical of military industrial complex because of the tragedy it has caused to the traditional world in Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan. So, I have explored research areas like BioMEMS as an ethical alternative. But reading this had been painful. Please at least salvage this area from serving the military industrial complex.

  • Refuting a trinitarian Zionist in biblical terms

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·SATURDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2017
    Thomas Edward Morgan Jr. Deuteronomy 29:25-29 “and they will say, ‘ALLAH (the accursed), for they forsook the covenant of Yahweh the God of their fathers, Asshur (he who shall come forth) shall cut off they who were brought out of the land of Egypt.’ They will come to serve another god (Allah), and prostrate before a god, Asshur (he who shall come forth) shall know to divide. And the breath of Yahweh shall burn against that land (Palestine whole – see Isaiah 14:29-31) to bring upon all a curse written in this book. Yahweh shall uproot the land in anger, fury of great wrath, to cast another land as it is this day concealed. Yahweh our God. Uncover the Son. For unto the last, this is the observance of all of the words of this book of law.” Ishmael Abraham Both US and Israel worship the golden calf and Sodom instead of One God of Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac peace be upon them. So, you should fear being uprooted. The verse 17 even talks about punishment for sinful thoughts and in US and Israel people proudly express their sinful thoughts. The verse 29 talks about observance of all laws of Torah. Do you obey all laws of Torah? Are you circumcised? Do you avoid pork?

  • Givaudan and Swiss Arabian: How sunnah of alcohol free perfumes contributes to synthesis of civilizations

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·SATURDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2017
    Today someone brought Swiss Arabian alcohol free perfume in my house. I also learned that even Sola Scriptura scholars like Ibn Uthaymeen do not consider perfumes with alcohol content less than 1/20th part of it, to be forbidden according to divine commandments.
    God is beautiful and loves beauty according to Hadith, so the orthodox community should promote this sunnah to help promote a modernity-compatible super-traditionalism in the 21st century.
    We have a strain of mystic self neglect in the traditional culture which can occur in celibate forms of catholicism, but reviving sunnah has the heavenly reward equivalent to martyrs.

  • Redorbit and fadeeha: When children of clerics fall from grace

    I came here while researching the word fadeeha which can mean scandal and fall from grace and this word has been used for her in the Arabic world. May God guide her to the path of her cleric father. A sacred Islamic text states that those who look lustfully at others will be humiliated/fadeeha by God before they die if they do not repent.