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  • Iqbal and Asad

    ڈیموکریٹک سلفیت نے تصوف کی جذباتیت کو رد کیا ہے جس کی وجہ سے پاکستان کے جدید توحید پرستوں کو امویت کا طعنہ بھی ملتا ہے محمد اسد اس فکر کے حامی تھے البتہ اقبال کارل جنگ کی طرح سائنسی جذباتیت کے قائل تھے

  • Stoic dating and moral motherhood

    Nick Carligeanu Exellence of character in Islam means choosing a moral mother for your future children than romantic gratification which is not sinful per se. So, tension lies between moral motherhood and hedonism paradox.

  • Civilizing the civilized

    Both modernity and tradition can be about civilizing the civilized, uncivilizing the civilized, civilizing the uncivilized, uncivilizing the uncivilized.

  • Ziauddin Sardar and neo legalism

    Zia represents what some call transmodernity. Eastern assertiveness can be described as neo traditional. Does Zia think neo traditional trendsetters are worth engaging because his standards seem too liberal to leave room for commandments in modern world. But how will legalist exodus within Islam end without some kind of safe and authentic Islamic Union.

  • Only two porn free nations

    Saudi Arabia and Iran must continue to exist as the only two porn free nations on earth when even Jerusalem and Vatican are not.

  • Anti-sapiosexuality: Hanbalism vs Ghazzali

    Rasheed Gillespie Modernity is sapiosexual in nature to intellectually rationalize every lust. Hanbalism by its blind escapism to textuality leaves no room for liberal speculation. And, therefore Eastern Islam refuses to bow to bibliophilic pride.

  • Do Pakistani engineers need Ibn Arabi?

    انجینئر مشینی تحقیق کا عادی ہوتا ہے نفسیات کے محقق تصوف کو زیادہ بہتر سمجھتے ہیں انجینئر ڈاکٹر اسرار اور مولوی اسحاق کو پروموٹ کرتا ہے اور وہ دونوں ابن عربی کو مظلوم سمجھتے تھے انجینئر چونکہ تقلیدا بریلوی تھا اس لئے جوش شباب و اجتہاد میں بغض ذات کا شکار ہے اس لئے اس کی وآپسی امریکی محققین تصوف حمزہ یوسف المالکی اور سید حسین نصر الجعفری کے ذریعے ہی ممکن ہے

  • To a genetic self hater

    That is the mainstream Sunni view by the way. I do not need to be a self hating modernist to accept that. Your adopted culture has accepted gay marriage non sense. I would rather love your grandfather who believed his irresponsible children will suffer twice in eternity compared to  us worthless ajami gentile believers.

  • Yemeni Islam and law abiding privilege of Jesus

    یمنی مہدویت اور نزول عیسی

    Odysseus Bournias Varotsis Iran is the story of Jewish Paul which integrates Fatimi Ishmaelite privilege and antinomian license towards justice war. Saudi Arabia is theoretically democratic Talmud without genetic privilege. Yemen integrates both poles into law abiding privilege like Jesus.

  • Greco-Sufism and Freud

    I think Iqbal is the most prominent Greco-Sufi thinker in East. The purpose of Greco-Sufism is to save mysticism from Freudian judgementalism. Jung was more inner minded but that can descend into pantheism, which orthodox sufis are cautious about.