Understanding the parts can only come from understanding the whole
- Reductionism explains big processes by understanding it’s parts.
- Complex systems require understanding at the system level, not the gene level.
- More than one mechanism to achieve what it needs to.
- The purpose of the individual molecules and genes can only come from understanding the whole.
Iblis (The original sin in Islam)
- Fire is better than clay. He disobeyed Allah, it means that Allah made a mistake in telling Him who is superior.
- This is the disbelief.
- Adam disobeyed also by eating from the tree. But Iblis when further, her questioned Allah’s judgement.
- Pride and arrogance.
The Islamic solution to Arrogance
Once the mind is convinced of revelation, then Revelation must precede the mind.
Modern Liberal Islam
- The human being is capable of identifying right from wrong.
- That hadith is daif.
- Cutting off the hand is savagery.
- The West has rejected corporal punishment, so we have accepted that.
- The criminal is a product of society, so the society is to blame. The criminal must be reformed at the expense of society.
- An eye for an eye is Justice.
Sufism
- Special knowledge above the Shariah, called Haqiqah, has been given to certain Shiekhs.
- Islam is transparent and available to everyone, not a special group of people.
Individualism
- Transcend daily, selfish impulses.
- When you understand who you are, you want to to work together.
- The purpose of life is the survival of the fittest. The fittest one is the one who survives.
- It impedes us to work together.
- Competition vs Cooperation
- We have to tolerate their immorality, they have to tolerate our morality.
- That we pray, fast, cover, don’t drink.
- We have to tolerate your misbehavior, you have to tolerate our being good.
- Our existence bothers you, because our existence embodies the judgement of your misbehavior.
- You know that you wrong and that you should not be tolerated.
- In Malayasia, their are way fewer rules for Non-Muslims, than Muslims.
- If you are important, than we try to make you a better and more successful person.
Progress
- They decided that tearing down the traditional Islamic structures, is progress
- It took them centuries to build a society without revelation, now they are tearing it down.
- They create disharmony between men and women, by discarding their natural roles.
Narrow solidarities
If you are a materialist, their is no purpose to suffering.
They would do anything to prevent suffering.
A believers suffering has purpose.
Christians hid behind the anti-rationalism in order to paper over the contradictions of it’s theological program.
Christianity became the dominant
If you haven’t squashed that Morality in your fitra.
Christianity believes that the bible was inspired to Jesus and the disciples.
Muslims believe that the Quran is literally the word of God.
Modernity cannot be compared to the complexity and resilience of Islam
The separation of ought from is.
Separation of Truth, God and purpose from Reality and Life.
Our life is based on politics.
Islam is an international religion.
Follow the politics actively.
Intellectual ability before physical ability.
Their is a whole realm of the unseen, that we are unaware of.
Only revelation can give us that information.
Rationalism is used in understanding the various verses of the Quran.
In Christian Europe, they were burning scientists by the stake.
In Islam, the scientists were scholars.
This is a civilizational difference.
The attitude toward rationality by what these civilizations produced.
We are emotional, before rational, therefore human being have an enormous potential for prejudice and delusion.
Islam is a process. Yes
Their are many who are still correcting themselves.
Engage and journey
But I am still going to have these ideas that contradict Islam.
Must be an openness to challenging oneself.
We can’t be hasty and throw people out.
Islam is more about Truth than it is about a tribe.
The creator will judge you based on your intentions.
Everyone is effected by ideology. Their are many ideologies at play.
Ibn Al-Haytham developed the scientific method, hundreds of years before Sir Francis Bacon.
Ibn Al-Haytham developed the calculus, hundreds of years before Isaac Newton.
Mu’tazila are a rational sect
- They would reformulate their creed, when they come across arguments that they could not respond to.
- Ashari’s had rational arguments.
- Outward struggle without inward perfection corrupts the world.
- Inward struggle without an attempt to improve the world is not real.
- Love for Bani Adam comes naturally to the purified heart.
- The desires of the self and the akhlaaq in dealing with others must be disciplined.
