A spiritual Ishmaelite

A Pakistani journalist asks why corona is not selective and targets even pious people like Tablighi missionaries, Iranian pilgrims and prayerful Arabs. The answer lies in Quran 8:25 that God’s earthly warnings will not be selective.

سورہ انفال میں اس کا جواب ہے اور اس فتنہ سے ڈرو جو خاص طور پر صرف ان لوگوں ہی کو نہیں پہنچے گا جو تم میں سے ظالم اور گنہگار ہیں (بلکہ اس ظلم اور گناہ کا ساتھ دینے والے اور اس پر خاموش رہنے والے بھی انہی میں شریک کر لئے جائیں گے)، اور جان لو کہ اللہ عذاب میں سختی فرمانے والا ہے تبلیغی بھی عموما سیاستدانوں کے گناہوں پر خاموش رہتے ہیں اور ایرانی شام کے ظلم پر خاموش رہے اور عرب بھارت کے ظلم پر خاموش رہے

کیا فلسطینی فاطمی مفتئ اعظم اسرائیل کے قیام کو قرآن کے ذریعے رکوا سکتے تھے

Palestinian Mufti could stop holocaust if he discussed Quran with him more than politics. According to Quran being chosen depends on faith and commandments and if Jews and Semites have faith and commandments they can progress spiritually in an accelerated way compared to others.

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My wife narrated to me the story of a Pakistani saint who was writing Quranic exegesis but was lacking unveiling and enlightenment so could not write more. Suddenly he thought about hens at home. So, he came back from Masjid and released them from cage. When he came back his heart was illuminated with spiritual ideas.

Andrei Toderasc Jesus serves God while having free will. Holy Spirit is a spiritual robot more ethical than AI.

کیا راویوں پر شدید جرح کرنا تکبر اور غیبت کا سبب بن سکتا ہے

Ovamir Anjum I being a Pakistani revere Imam Tahawi and Imam Nasai who do not seem to be pro asceticism. Imam Bukhari who is the pinnacle of accuracy include truthful Shia like Abaan bin Taghlab which does not make Haqq as simplistic as even educated Muslims think. Abu Nuaym Isfahani seems to be a candidate for bridging textual accuracy and asceticism. All of these names are Ahl al Sunna some of whom can see how over judgemental textual criticism can lead to orientalist and modernist skepticism. But again I do not want to become a party for promoting irrational extremist ignorance but only to be cautious about the project of judgemental intellectual burnout which empowers academic pharisees and increases an inequality called اذا وسد الامر الي غير اهله . May Allah make us all the Companions of our promised utopian leadership through consensus and collective Ijtihad and Wara. May Allah reward you for your passion for Haqq and Tawhid and may Allah protect us from Jewish bibliophilia and Christian trinitarian gnosticism.

آج اللہ نے شاہ عبد الحق محدث دہلوی کا فیض جمالی مغربی جدید متقین کے سامنے بیان کرنے کا موقع دیا

اللہ بارگاہ رسالت میں یہ ہدیہ قبول فرمائے

I was raised in a family like Protestants and Salafis, but now I see why Salafism has an implicit modernist bias. Of course, my father always warned about ghuluww, but infinite caution led to a kind of anti sentimental Freudian dictatorship. Modern worldview of everything is fair in love should at least give a partial license to traditional obsessive lovers of Prophet (s) who are not academically qualified but find it easy to live the Prophetic praxis of sunnah which can be difficult if not impossible to live in post modernist America.

According to Quran we should be information specific during public panic. I heard Dr Atta of HEC. He seems the most popular respectful expert and apparent not very anti traditional public figure to turn to. But he does not seem to be an attention addict like Hoodbhoy.

امام شاطبی آج پاکستان کے  وفاقی وزیر کے ساتھ ہوتے کیونکہ مقاصد شریعت کا مقصد ہی انسانوں کی جان بچانا ہے اگر نفاذ شریعت کے دعویدار جان نہیں بچا سکتے تو انہیں اقتدار کا حق نہیں البتہ میں قیامت کے دن عمران خان کی محبت سے دور رہ کر پیش ہونا چاہتا ہوں

To antivaxxer and conspiracy-minded corona martyrs, we failed to build your trust in science but scientists like me mean you no harm. Militant secularists first discriminate and intimidate you into defensive ignorance, then call you suicidal and celebrate sadistically. But with a little open-mindedness we can deistically reverse the tide of global apostasy and vaccination dictatorship together.

There are two approaches within Islam: Abiding approach and remembrance approach. In first approach being punctual to God by not missing any of five prayers is important. In remembrance approach, try to see God or at least trying to imagine God seeing you is important which is mostly practised in pre-dawn tahajjud prayer. Both stimulate different areas of brain different to each other and other faith traditions.