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.
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
The divisive struggle between local traditional identity and universal spiritual identity in the Indian sub-continent will pave the way for modern secular imperial globalization so intra-subcontinental harmony is important. His critique about the effect of Islam on native cultural identity is based on ambivalent attitude in Islam to native Arab culture which has given rise to secular Arab nationalism in modern times and Hindu nationalism has many alliances with it because pious Muslim identity is seen as a threat to Hindu nationalism. For example, in Islam there is an ambivalence about the poetic tradition which is the literary basis of the musical tradition. Quran critcizes poets for lack of objectivity in seeking truth. Even western Kierkegaard commented on it that he identified himself more with poetry than Prophetic truth. But there are Prophetic aphorisms about wise forms of poetry which is of course exception rather than rule. Quality reduces quantity. So, the goal of these commandments is to evolve a higher ethical and more objective form of poetry which fulfills both intellectual and psychological needs of humanity. Iqbal tried to achieve that but of course he is not a personality of consensus. So, what is needed is more objective and philosophical form of literature in the sub-continent. Or at least modern forms of Sufi poetry and music, liked by many Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims alike, show that there are Muslims who feel the need to address the native cultural identity. But it also needs intellectual underpinning to make it a part of public Indian discourse. Quran 14:4 is an important verse which tells the faithful to keep in mind the psychological and linguistic background of the intended audience.
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وما تفرَّقوا إلا من بعد ما جاءهم العلم بغياً بينهم
(Asad) And [as for the followers of earlier revelation,] they broke up their unity, out of mutual jealousy, only after they had come to know [the truth]
The latest revelation has also been afflicted with the example of earlier faith.
My father focused on my understanding Quran rather than memorizing it which helped me a lot to expose the secularists and the divisively religious , but now I wish I had memorized Quran too because this aspect of worship is similar to angels missing in the modern world.
An ex Muslim boasts about the invention of the bulb: I am an orthodox Muslim electrical engineer and the graveyard where Faraday is buried is the same where a Russian chief of intelligence who converted to Islam is buried in. They propagate their light of alternative Messiah but the light of true Messiah will also slowly propagate. Our light is reaching their graveyards.
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.
A spiritual Ishmaelite 