Psychology and Philosophy

Sociology research: Why West celebrated right to drive in Saudi Arabia?

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Sex and cars two of America s and the worlds favorite thing, it should be no surprise that they have ties.It is obvious the tremendous impact the car has had on our lives and the world we live in. Whether you believe it is for better or for worse that the automobile was created it will no doubt continue to have a great impact on travel and an array of other characteristics of our lives. As for sex , well all things aside we need it to reproduce.
Muhammad Mushrraf Really interesting.
I remember an old man, in eighties, told me before a month or so, that bicycle was a great source for he corruption of the youth in his village, and when a boy had a bicycle, then it means that he wouldn’t be able to continue his study. Everything which facilitates easy communication and interaction, has the potential to stir such things.
And, when it comes to cars, then the matter is on gigantic scale, definitely.
Peter Bell I heard recently from a respected friend that the theology of technology is just beginning to be developed, and is not caught up to the actual changes in technology that we face every day. This is a cutting-edge field of work for the brightest minds and most faithful hearts to engage the ethics and cosmic dynamics of our upcoming technology. We as a society (and as believing people) very much need this.
Ishmael Abraham Since, I am involved in cutting edge research in technology while being a student of sacred Islamic texts, please pray for me to contribute much to this area of sapio-adroans synthesis before dying, so that God consider us a knight of Christ as well as the Ishmaelite righteous King. Future belongs to the faithful, God willing/In Sha Allah. Martin Seligman admits that believers are far more optimistic about future than the Godless. I read the word technology in a spiritual context here, which may not be precisely relevant here, but shows the passionate desire of believers for a sapio-adorans synthesis.
http://www.techofheart.co/

Existential dysphoria, nihilistic sufism and nihilistic militancy

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Thinking about existential dysphoria made me visit the blog and I liked it. Since I am both a patrilineal and matrilineal descendant of Abraham peace be upon him, my DNA made me explore theistic existentialism via Kierkegaard who wrote Fear and Trembling about my grandfather. I have theistic psychotherapist friends who recommend reading Martin Seligman who has acknowledged that theists tend to be more optimistic than secularists. I think nihilism is a logical consequence of industrial revolution and sexual revolution, but our traditional culture is still successfully resisting both revolutions and therefore nihilism but one can find nihilistic movements in the traditional world. Nihilism literally means annihilation and some sufi saints have talked about annihilation of ego while witnessing the divine ego. However, that is incompatible with our modern existence as well as our own texts. Then, there are militant anarchists who think that it is impossible to resist temptation while being a part of modern culture so they resort to militant anarchism to destroy with nihilistic passion. However, I have embraced a synthesis of radical anti-modern skepticism and self-annihilating sufi compassion.

https://wewalkamongyou.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/how-existentialism-helped-with-my-dysphoria/

Quran 90:4, existential dysphoria and sarcasm

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While trying to verbalize my psychological state today based on Quran 90:4 I came up with this word in my mind, because I think dysphoria is an inescapable condition of our existence. An Ishmaelite saint Thabit Al-Bunani said: A felt dysphoria(kabad) during prayers for twenty years, and for the next twenty years I felt euphoria during prayers. I enjoyed the sarcasm of your blog

How Islam saved us from the equivalent of struggle between greek mysticism and greek rationalism

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I am happy that trinitarian greek orthodox church did not ban me. I was curious about greek mysticism because modern world is more influenced by greek rationalism which is employed by secularists to supposedly bury God. I am happy to learn that those with greek DNA still have love in their hearts for the spiritual homeland of Middle East.

How Nietzsche understood why I left atelephobic scientific asceticism for fullness of work-life balance of sunnah

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Nietzsche argued that the dogged pursuit of scientific knowledge was a form of asceticism as well, in that it caused a person to evade life — it’s hard to experience the fullness of mortality when you’re holed up in a laboratory or have your nose in a book all the time. Nietzsche also saw type-A workaholics who never have the time to enjoy the fruits of their labor as yet another category of life-denying ascetics.

The ignored traditional scholars and skepticism of halal courtship

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I think such projects should involve traditional scholars, because many orthodox Muslims treat even courtship as scandalous. The Nouman Ali Khan controversy has shown us that traditional scholars have not been consulted on specifics of halal courtship.
Sheikh Ahmad Kutty a graduate of Madina university has discussed this issue but still the input of major mainstream traditional scholars is missing on this issue. He writes: “ It is, therefore, important that as a community we should encourage creative ways of facilitating marriages.” If we really want to counter the sexual revolution and reduce zina in traditional societies, we should facilitate nikah between compatible believers based on the concept of kufu.

Nussbaum, Islamic apocrypha and Israeli professor: “The prostitute and the professor of philosophy”

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ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·MONDAY, 23 OCTOBER 2017
Nussbaum writes: These two figures have a very interesting similarity: Both provide bodily services in areas that are generally thought to be especially intimate and definitive of selfhood. Just as the prostitute takes money for sex, which is commonly thought to be an area of intimate self-expression, so the professor takes money for thinking and writing about what he thinks-about morality, emotion, the nature of knowledge, whatever-all parts of a human being’s intimate search for understanding of the world and self-understanding. It was precisely for this reason that the medieval thinkers …Saw such a moral problem about philosophizing for money: It should be a pure spiritual gift and it is degraded by the receipt of a wage. The fact that we do not think that the professor… Thereby alienates her mind or turns her thoughts into commodities-even when she writes a paper for a specific conference or volume should put us on our guard about making similar conclusions in the case of the prostitute (Nussbaum, 1998)
A Waqifi Shia narrator narrates a Hadith that who will use Quran for earning will come on the Day of Judgement in such a state that there will be no flesh on his face only skeleton. This narrator is criticized by both Sunni and Shia scholars. Some say it is a quote of the blessed Companion, Buraidah Al-Aslami, and not a Hadith.
Amihud Gilead University of Haifa Faculty Member, Department of Philosophy May shalom be upon the truth seekers. I am an orthodox Muslim electrical engineer from Pakistan. I enjoyed your article on philosophical prostitution. I enjoyed your comparison of puritanical rationalizers of slavery and philosophical rationalizers of prostitution. I have referenced the sacred texts which Nussbaum vaguely refers to in her argument on my blog. Thanks again.

Why Prophetic praxis of sunnah is superior to Kantian philosophy according to a feminist

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Kant was a lifelong celibate. Annette Baier emphasizes that “The great moral theorists in our tradition not only are all men, they are mostly men who had minimal adult dealings with (and so were then minimally influenced by) women.”
Annette Baier, ‘Trust and Anti-Trust’ in Doing and Being: Selected Readings in Moral Philosophy, ed by Joram Graf Haber (New York: Macmillan, 1993) p362
The interactive dealings of Prophetic praxis and Mothers of Believers with diverse backgrounds make Islamic tradition more feminist than western tradition.

Ironic process theory, hypersexuality and sufi counselling

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ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·SUNDAY, 22 OCTOBER 2017 
I am happy to learn about our shared concern about childhood hypersexualization in the modern culture. In traditional cultures, many people with hypersexuality do counselling with sufi saints and many people recover. I think sufi saints achieve that by reducing the anxiety of the patients. I have read other psychologists who have written on ironic process theory that patients who cannot inhibit their thoughts should focus on some other intellectual and psychological alternative rather than trying to suppress the negative thoughts. And, that can be achieved by meditative prayers and studying sacred texts. Another aspect they have mentioned is that one should reduce multitasking to avoid negative thoughts. Since modern culture is based on industrial revolution where multitasking is inevitable, so that makes sexual revolution inevitable. So, if we start spending more relaxed time in spiritual, charitable and philanthropic activities that can reduce the anxiety and stress created by industrious activities.
You are right to acknowledge the fact of using hypersexuality as an excuse for infidelity and I have found many secularist ideologues using the same excuse. However, many real psychologists are not absolute fatalists.

Celibate philosophers and theologians in western and Islamic traditions

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ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·FRIDAY, 20 OCTOBER 2017 
الفلاسفة والعلماء العزاب في التقاليد الغربية والإسلامية
Abu Ghuddah has written a book with the title: The celibate knowers who gave preference to sacred knowledge over marriage. He lists Ibn Taymia, Nawawi, Tabari, Razi and Zamakhshari.
Plato, as far as we know, never married.
St Augustine (“grant me chastity, but not yet”) fathered an illegitimate child, but then became a celibate priest.
Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre and Wittgenstein were all unmarried and childless.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/15/why-philosophers-make-unsuitable-life-partners
However, God rejects celibacy/rahbaniya as a Christian heresy in Quran 57:27 and invites philosophers and theologians towards a Prophetic balance between the extremes of celibacy and sexual revolution called the sacred praxis of sunnah.
Jerry Sexton There are verses both in support and against celebacy in the Bible. Catholics like to reference this one.
Matthew 19:9-12:

“And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another commits adultery; and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.” The disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.” But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given. For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to receive this, let him receive it.”

There is one problem. Priests, as far as I know, are not castrated. The hormones cloud thinking, children and women are often the victims of abuse. Here is a verse against celebacy

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, through the pretensions of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth (1 Tim. 4:1-4).

In my view, Jesus didn’t seek out virgins to be his disciples, (although he told them to abandon their families) so why should a preacher be celibate?
Celibacy only leads to temptations driven by hormones.

Ishmael Abraham In tribal and rural culture of Israelites, the temptations were limited, so there could have been a possibility of being able to sustain celibacy. But as humanity evolved, with the possibility of a global urban culture, God ruled out that possibility in Quran.In Quran 7:157 God talks about relieving humanity of certain burdens and liberating them from certain shackles, which includes celibacy. Abandoning families is called hijrah in Islam and the father of saint and legal scholar Rabia Ar- Rai (r) returned to his wife after 27 years. Islam teaches fasting to control the production of hormones. Medical researchers have proven that abstinence does not pose any risk to our physiological health. Learning to deal with the anxiety of abstinence can make us more emotionally intelligent and this emotional intelligence can become an effective part of our personality through the idea of self-directed neuroplasticity.