A spiritual Ishmaelite

Category: Psychology and Philosophy

  • Need of an accurate but defiant Eastern occidentalism

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    “The West has produced many orientalists who have studied Islam from their own point of view, but the Islamic world has produced very few occidentalists who can study the various aspects of Western civilization from its science to art, from religion to social behavior, from the Islamic point of view.” — Seyyed Hossein Nasr

    Hasan Mahfooz Sayyid Nasr studied the western political philosophy and his views got pretty distorted. Why?
    Ishmael Abraham Our traditional occidenatlism is not a monologue. Secular Muslims believe in an inaccurate overestimating occidentalism while traditional Muslims believe in a blind xenophobia which is at times necessary to preserve traditional culture, like orientalism is an attempt to preserve western cultural supremacy. Of course, we want the supremacy of faith, and not necessarily all traditional culture. So, we need an informed and accurate occidentalism based on truthfulness as well as spiritual xenophobia aimed at resisting temptations. 

  • War of globalized sexual revolution against orthodox traditionalists

    Wow so Jesus(p) likes fornication as long as republicans do it

    Ishmael Abraham I am happy Jim Englert that it makes you sad, like me. But, most people find the sins of traditionalists funny.

    Jim Englert Medieval scholastics had an adage, corruption optimi pessima / the very best thing, when corrupted, is the worst thing of all. Genuine religious faith, grace drawing us into divine life, is the optima, the fulfillment of human life for which we are destined. When that is corrupted, as it is in such farce as today, it becomes worse than secularism. Secularists ignore the Transcendect, at worst deny it. But corrupted religious folks deface Transcendence, disfigure it, such that the world turns away from it in horror. And, yes, this saddens me. Deeply.

    Ishmael Abraham I am horrified by globalization of co-education and porn because they make temptations accessible to most orthodox traditionalists. I heard that even in Vatican someone tried to download porn. And, the sadistic laughter of modernists was deafening.

  • Responding to an inconsistent modernist criticism of a sensual Paradise

    Ishmael Abraham Why are you jealous of our voluptuous girlfriends in heaven when you don’t even believe in heaven? An atheist said that a Christian heaven without marriage is like hell. So, Quran is addressing and rectifying a Christian heresy.
    Ishmael Abraham Anticipating a qualitatively and quantitatively higher reward makes you a braver soldier in this cultural war against temptations. This is God’s strategy to defeat greatest modern sexual revolution in human history.
    Ishmael Abraham Are your sex robots a beautiful vision of women?
    Ishmael Abraham A plagiarism would make scientific accuracy impossible. For example, Christians believe in a global flood, while Islam teaches only eight animals were on Ark which is rationally consistent. And, how is a sensual Paradise in Quran a plagiarism of asexual Christian heaven? 
    Ishmael Abraham If you believe in sex positivity you cannot criticize the plural marriage in this world or the next to be consistent in your worldview.
    Ishmael Abraham According to Islam, female sexual intimacy is most probably qualitative in nature rather than quantitative. However, Quran also promises that every possible sensual delight which people including faithful sisters demand will be there. 

  • Losers and atelephobia

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    Entrepreneurs are losers.

    Innovators are losers.

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    We are all losers.

    We all make mistakes.

    We all suck when we 1st start something new. And we all learn more from losing than we do from winning. One of my favorite reminders to myself is, “There is no such thing as a legend who isn’t a loser.”

    The difference between legend and loser is getting back up, after you lose. Losing is our teacher. We lose, we learn. That makes losing our friend. Losing makes us tougher. Makes us humble.

    It’s really good for us.

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    Today she’s one of Quora’s top writers, she’s published multiple amazing books and her work has been viewed over 100 million times on Quora alone.

    To have great life we all must spark our spirits, stoke our perseverance, and learn to love our failures. That’s the only way I know to forge your own inner legend.

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    Ishmael Abraham

    Those who are unwilling to recognize the inevitable loser within us, and may judge others as losers, may themselves suffer from atelephobia.

  • 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.

  • What does Mr Beans and an orthodox Muslim have in common? Ethical humour.

    Regardless of the fake news, may this message reach Rowan Atkins. The post was written assuming he has died: Quran talks about exploring commonalities with your audience. I vividly remember the day of my youth when my orthodox father called us to his bedroom during the unexpected sunnah time of afternoon nap to share with us something important: Mr Beans. But what appealed to him in this century when political scientists with imperial mindsets declare a clash of civilizations. It was ethical humour which I think is a universal value as effective in outreach as interfaith and intercultural dialogue. Although on close scrutiny an ultra orthodox Muslim would find the naked Mr Beans at the pool objectionable like the angry face he made towards the sky at a funeral but his humour did not habitually employ modern sexual revolution or modern atheist blasphemy. Although he appeared to be a secular person but I would blame it on intellectual and moral failures of Christianity.

  • 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

  • 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.