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.
Psychology and Philosophy
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
Islam and feminism: Two tangible goals
I would like to incorporate feminism into the traditional world to empower my sisters in faith without importing sexual revolution. So, I would like to ask if a chaste feminism is possible? By chaste I do not mean catholic celibacy, but sexual intimacy within marriage. So, I have two goals: Increase sexual intimacy in the traditional world and to decrease abuse of power whether traditional patriarchal or modern misandrist. Can someone here be open-minded enough to support intelligent orthodox Muslims in planning to achieve those goals?
Are Tawhid and trinity supra-logical or illogical?
Response to a pedantic query about the concept of supra-logical truths: If Tawhid/unitarianism had not been intelligible, prominent scientists like Isaac Newton and George Boole would not have been unitarians. But what is supra-logical is to encompass the full nature of divinity what Hawking called the mind of God while also asserting that science will always be progressing making encompassing even created nature an endless journey. Like the vision in the Night of Ascent was a vision of truth that factually happened but not an encompassing vision. The question of encompassing vision in Hereafter is open to curiosity and Scriptural dialogue in classical Muslim scholarship.
Sex deprivation and orthodox Muslim communities
Sex deprivation before marriage in orthodox Muslim communities inspires real spiritual creativity. I reached out to so many wonderful fellow faithful through this shared sense of abstinence. But those children raised within sexual revolution may never have an opportunity to experience an alternative worldview. Many might think there are no intelligent people in the orthodox and traditional communities. There are actually a lot. I am an electrical engineer from a prestigious university but many of us choose forms of spiritual art and literature as what Freud called sublimation. And, I have read about established research that abstinence has no adverse physiological effect. Facing the anxiety of abstinence actually makes you more brave, but according to psychology when we have other anxieties like anxieties of industrial revolution, we tend not to leave our comfort zones.
Future of earth and Hadith
Even according to rational standards, we do not have an infinite future. In Hadith the proximity of the end is compared to two adjacent fingers, and if we have ten fingers, compared to 13.8 billion years, it makes sense that life on earth will become extinct in the next billion years due to evaporation of all water as predicted by science.
Types of apostasy
There are two types of apostasy. Apostasy due to lusts and and due to doubts. Sufi mysticism seeks to heal the darkness of lusts and Ijtihad scholarship seeks to illuminate the darkness of doubts. The enlightenment of faith is a synergy of both endeavors. Another two types are: the antinomian one which is a result of too liberal upbringing without wisdom and the pharisaic one which is a result to too harsh upbringing without compassion.
Peter Bell This is a fine line to walk, between antinomianism and phariseeism, lawlessness and legalism. We need the grace of mysticism along with the wisdom of good scholarship to bring us to “the enlightenment of faith … a synergy of both endeavors.” This balance and wisdom are widely available — as attested to by so many of our texts — but so few of us seem to find them.
When ethical patience and tolerance will be considered a weakness
When ethical patience and tolerance called hilm will be considered a weakness.
The disciple asked: When will Antichrist emerge? The Ishmaelite leader of saints replied which includes: When prayer will die and when ethical patience will be considered a weakness.
الامام علي(ع
سلوني أيها الناس !.. قبل أن تفقدوني – ثلاثا – فقام إليه صعصعة بن صوحان ، فقال : يا أمير المؤمنين !.. متى يخرج الدجّال ؟..
فقال له علي (ع) : اقعد !.. فقد سمع الله كلامك وعلم ما أردت ، والله ما المسؤول عنه بأعلم من السائل ، ولكن لذلك علاماتٍ وهيئاتٍ يتبع بعضها بعضاً ، كحذو النّعل بالنّعل ، وإن شئت أنبأتك بها ؟..
قال : نعم ، يا أمير المؤمنين !..
فقال (ع) : احفظ !.. فإنّ علامة ذلك إذا أمات الناس الصلا
ة ، وأضاعوا الأمانة ، واستحلّوا الكذب ، وأكلوا الرّبا ، وأخذوا الرّشا ، وشيّدوا البنيان ، وباعوا الدين بالدنيا ، واستعملوا السفهاء ، وشاوروا النساء ، وقطعوا الأرحام ، واتّبعوا الأهواء ، واستخفّوا بالدماء .
وكان الحلم ضعفاً ، والظلم فخراً ، وكانت الأمراء فجرةً ، والوزراء ظلمةً ، والعرفاء خونةً ، والقرّاء فسقةً ، وظهرت شهادات الزور ، واستعلن الفجور…
Problem of evil and Hadith: Tossing and turning in bed of a patient is jihad
عن الحارث عن علي عن النبي ﷺ أنين المريض تسبيحه وصياحه تهليله ونومه عبادة ونفسه صدقة وتقلبه قتال لعدو
The Prophet peace and blessings be upon him said: The pain and cries of a patient count as glorification and sanctification of God, his sleep is an act of worship, his breathing is an act of charity and his tossing and turning in bed is like fighting in the battlefield.
A spiritual Ishmaelite 