tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37647162587547106972024-03-05T04:07:33.823-08:00Hast-o-Neest Institute of Traditional Studies & ArtsPAKISTANbaytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.comBlogger156125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-28793159851509612552011-04-12T01:44:00.001-07:002011-04-12T01:44:27.355-07:00Western Gender Discourse: Social Engineering & Modern Biology?"Walaysa al-dhakaru ka’l-untha, says the Qur’an: the male is not like the female. This is why we say, respectfully ignoring the protests of old-fashioned feminists, that men and women, in a God-fearing society, will tend towards different concerns and spheres of activity. Our aim, after all, is human happiness, not political correctness."By Abdal-Hakim Murad.
...Let me begin, then, by baytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-73969382787305332202011-03-21T08:33:00.000-07:002011-03-21T08:33:47.488-07:00Modernity: Dormant Longing For A Unity Without Religion and Metaphysics
Omar KNIn modernism it was believed that materiality or phenomena was everything there is and that it is superiour to anything else. This philosophy of science is called positivism - it is a rejection of metaphysics, as it holds that the goal of knowledge is simply to describe the phenomena that we experience, which we can observe and measure and nothing beyond that.
In some quarters therebaytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-45600904737745522792011-02-16T00:20:00.000-08:002011-02-16T00:20:23.315-08:00Gender as Sacred SignAbdul Hakim Murad
..Women’s functions vary widely in the Muslim world and in Muslim history. In peasant communities, women work out of doors; in the desert, and among urban elites, womanhood is more frequently celebrated in the home. Recurrently, however, the public space is rigorously desexualised, and this is represented by the quasi-monastic garb of men and women, where frequently the colour baytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-20819534396849371832011-02-06T10:39:00.000-08:002011-02-06T10:41:25.331-08:00"There is No Longer A Journey to Undertake, No Longer A Destination to Reach"Sultan Bahu
Alif Allah chambe di booti, Murshid man wich laaee hoo
Nafee asbaat da pane milia, Har rage harjae hoo.
Andar booti mushk machaya, Jaan phullan te aae hoo
Jeeve Murshid Kaamil Bahu, Jain eh booti laee hooMy Master Has Planted in My Heart the Jasmine of Allah’s Name.
Both My Denial That the Creation is Real and My Embracing of God, the Only Reality, Have Nourished the baytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-50813577803735475052011-01-20T07:19:00.000-08:002011-01-20T07:19:04.166-08:00Confusion in Knowledge creates Loss of Adab (Recognition and Acknowledgement) which implies Loss of Justice
Sayyid Naquib al-Attas
“As to the internal causes of the dilemma in which we find ourselves, the basic problems can – it seems to me – be reduced to a single evident crisis which I would simply call the loss of adab. I am here referring to the loss of discipline – the discipline of body, mind, and soul; the discipline that assures the recognition and acknowledgement of one’s baytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-41073662063646091292011-01-17T23:21:00.000-08:002011-01-17T23:21:22.067-08:00Learning the Maqasid al Shariah!Dr. Robert D. Crane
Over the long run, the most productive initiative by the still largely silent majority of Muslims in marginalizing Muslim extremists is to fill the intellectual and spiritual void that serves as an ocean in which the extremists can swim. This initiative can provide the favorable environment needed for Muslims to ally with like-minded Christians and Jews in order to show baytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-89349513455305959512011-01-05T03:08:00.000-08:002011-01-05T03:08:03.444-08:00Islamic Law: "Abnormal Abuse of Rules Can Neither Legalise The Abusive Practice Nor Render the Authentic Rules Null & Void"This is an excerpt from The Muslim Conduct of State by Dr. Muhammad Hamidullah
(1)As has aptly been said: "When stable communities whether Tribes, or City-States, or States of a modern type are permanently contiguous, customs hardening in time into law never fail to regulate their intercourse. Ubi societas, ibi jus; wherever developed communities are brought in contact with each other, baytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-55682508237385625022010-12-25T02:21:00.000-08:002010-12-25T02:25:44.906-08:00"Your Old Life was Frantic, Running From Silence"Poem by Maulana Jelaluddin Rumi
Translated by Coleman Barks
Die..and be quietQuietness is the surest sign that you've diedYour old life was frantic, running from silenceThe speechless full moon comes out now
baytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-52326149949129803872010-12-18T09:44:00.000-08:002010-12-18T09:44:02.679-08:00The 'Islamization of Knowledge'?Akbar S. Ahmed Updated by Anis AhmedScientific knowledge is generally considered objective, real, and value-free. The very concept of “Islamization of knowledge” or “Islamic science” raises a basic question: Are the realms of physics and chemistry, or sociology and political science, for instance, and “religion” exclusive and independent of each other, or is a marriage between “religion” andbaytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-18369669825604756862010-12-04T00:28:00.000-08:002010-12-04T00:48:22.789-08:00Western-Educated Muslim Modernists, Orientalists, Politicized Islam & Women's EducationNimat Hafez Barazangi, Donald Malcolm Reid, Syed Rizwan Zamir, Dietrich Reetz, Joseph S. Szyliowicz, Akbar S. Ahmed, Anis Ahmad
Nasr (1982) criticizes Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938) and other “modernist” Islamists for understanding “Greek philosophy through the eyes of its modern Western interpreters” and, hence, separating Islam from philosophy. For Rahman (“Islam: An Overview,” in The baytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-53644148044317968382010-11-16T15:08:00.000-08:002010-11-16T15:28:10.804-08:00Maktab & Madressahs: Elementary & Higher Religious Schools in Islamic SocietiesDonald Malcolm Reid, Updated by Syed Rizwan ZamirAs the nineteenth century opened, Islamic societies had highly developed educational institutions—elementary Qurān schools (Ar., kuttāb or maktab) and higher religious schools called madrasahs. Less formal education was available from Ṣūfī lodges (khanqah), literary circles at princely courts, private tutors, private study baytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-82205057703178763742010-11-07T00:02:00.000-07:002010-11-07T00:02:29.669-07:00Imam Ghazali: Debate as a Means of Searching after the TruthImam Ghazali (1058 - 1111), Khorasan
...You will understand this ambiguity between debate and consultation when I relate to you the following, namely, that co-operation in the search after truth is a part of religion but has… distinguishing features and conditions.
Whereas debate as a means of searching after the truth is one of the fard kifayah duties, no one who has not yet baytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-27355253382001542812010-10-29T02:19:00.000-07:002010-10-29T10:01:23.490-07:00Islamic Philosophy: Knowledge is Perfection & Perfection is HappinessDr. Shams C. Inati
Knowledge is the intellect's grasp of the immaterial forms, the pure essences or universals that constitute the natures of things, and human happiness is achieved only through the intellect's grasp of such universals.
They stress that for knowledge of the immaterial forms, the human intellect generally relies on the senses. Some philosophers, such as Ibn Rushd and baytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-66836892666028321012010-10-21T12:13:00.000-07:002010-10-21T12:20:26.670-07:00Seek Knowledge! An Obligatory Duty for Muslims!1. Published: Friday, 26 January, 2007, 10:52 AM Doha Time
Prophet Muhammad sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam said: “Seeking knowledge is obligatory upon every Muslim.” (Related by Ibn ‘Adiyy, Al-Bayhaqi and Al-Tabarani).
Though this Hadith is known and memorised by most Muslims, the essence, the amount, and the kind of knowledge referred to in this Hadith remains baytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-54391713595588236272010-09-30T10:48:00.000-07:002010-09-30T18:22:27.776-07:00The Muslims Struggle for Islam is also Their Struggle to Preserve Their CulturesExcerpts from a paper by Dr. Ejaz Akram
[Do not cite or reproduce from the following paper without permission of author]
A Definition of Culture
[Hence, in the light of the above ] I would like to present a definition of culture as “a realm of shared beliefs, ideas and symbols”. Inasmuch as culture is a medium between human beings, it also plays the part of binding individuals together, or thatbaytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-55241568844435346932010-09-22T13:11:00.000-07:002010-09-22T22:24:52.910-07:00Questions of Direct Recourse to the Quran & Sunnah & Fanatical Attachment to a MadhabTimothy Winters (Abdul Hakim Murad)
...Earlier religions slide gently or painfully into schism and irrelevance; but Islamic piety, while fading in quality, has been given mechanisms which allow it to retain much of the sense of unity emphasised in its glory days.
The reason is simple and unarguable: God has given us this religion as His last word, and it must therefore endure, with its essentialsbaytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-18346283208682128632010-09-16T23:44:00.000-07:002010-09-16T23:44:47.713-07:00Dîn, Modernism, Evolution, Science & TranscendenceOmar K N
1.1 Definition of tradition
Therefore according to how we understand the concept from its etymological root: tradere (deliver, transmit) - Tradition has nothing to do with peoples' usages or customs from old, but is understood as *revealed* tradition, that is truths and principles of divine order revealed or unveiled to mankind.
“Tradition is essentially of "super-human" originbaytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-28209388834102344282010-09-12T02:47:00.000-07:002010-09-12T02:47:26.355-07:00Shariah: Framework for Human Rights at the Core of Islam as a Religion
Dr. Robert D. Crane
Over the long run, the most productive initiative by the still largely silent majority of Muslims in marginalizing Muslim extremists is to fill the intellectual and spiritual void that serves as an ocean in which the extremists can swim. This initiative can provide the favorable environment needed for Muslims to ally with like-minded Christians and Jews in order to show thatbaytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-20118900137259809242010-09-08T01:46:00.000-07:002010-09-08T02:13:02.226-07:00Shariah, Globalism, Media, Muslim Extremists, Stoning-Beheading-Flogging, Hate Crime & Christian Extremism1. Dr Hamdy Murad, Professor of Sharia at Al-Balqa Applied University, Jordan.
The regulations of Sharia can only be applied in a mature, Islamic educated society that is familiar with the respective regulations, morals and laws. This is a principal issue. These regulations should not be applied in an Islamic society that is not mature or in baytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-5355429120725580822010-09-04T00:39:00.000-07:002010-09-04T00:41:10.672-07:00Islamic Law & Jurisprudence is Not Always Understood by the Press
Denis J. Wiechman, Jerry D. Kendall, and Mohammad K. Azarian
The general public and many academics have several preconceived notionsbaytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-65971934574602179702010-08-30T03:11:00.000-07:002010-08-30T03:38:26.181-07:00Modernity Project: Reaching for the Physical and Psychological Aspects of Human Nature & The Spiritual Project: Reaching for the Divine Aspect of Human NatureOmar K N,
Shaykh Abdul Qadir Isa
Abu Madyan (rahimahu-Allah) said:Regard not any fault but that acknowledged within youAs a manifest, clearly apparent fault, though it be hidden
And others said:Condemn not a person for doing an action
To which you are equally ascribedHe who blames something while at the same time doing it himself
Has only demonstrated his own ignorance
Our definition of baytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-43965570447937756442010-08-24T13:54:00.000-07:002010-08-24T13:54:04.410-07:00"O Mankind! It is You That Has Need of God!"Sultan Ahmet Mosque Quran Festival, Istanbul, 2007Recitation: Ishak DanisSura Fatir [35:15-24]Translation: Yusuf Ali
5:15 O ye men! It is ye that have need of God: but God is the One Free of all wants, worthy of all praise. يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ أَنتُمُ الْفُقَرَاء إِلَى اللَّهِ وَاللَّهُ هُوَ الْغَنِيُّ الْحَمِيدُ
35:16 If He so pleased, He could blot you out baytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-60155948595856931062010-08-22T05:31:00.001-07:002010-08-22T05:31:52.365-07:00Hazrat Ali (A.S.):Pursuit of Knowledge Better Than Pursuit of Riches
Professor Masud ul Hasan
The knowledge of the Holy Prophet was thus both book knowledge (Ilm-i-Safina) and heart knowledge (Ilm-e-Sina). Hadrat Ali received his heart knowledge from the Holy Prophet. It is related that after the Ascension, the Holy Prophet awarded a mantle to Hadrat Ali which led to the illumination of his heart.
His Concept of Knowledge
Hadrat Ali held that the baytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-88577379842636955742010-08-19T07:51:00.000-07:002010-08-19T07:54:56.733-07:00The Excellence (& Limitation) of Religious Authority in Islamic ShariahShaikh M. Nur Abdullah
Ulama: Specialists in Religious Knowledge (as opposed to 'Clergy')
If you have a legal problem you consult a lawyer. If you have a medical problem you consult a physician. If your car is broken, you go to a mechanic to fix your car. You may not agree with their opinion, you may decide to obtain a second opinion, you may decide to get a different lawyer, doctor or baytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3764716258754710697.post-78937511982029663042010-08-17T02:22:00.000-07:002010-08-17T02:22:50.918-07:00Islamic Shariah, Fiqh and Secular Law: Basic DefinitionsThe Arabic word fiqh means knowledge, understanding and comprehension. It refers to the legal rulings of the Muslim scholars, based on their knowledge of the shari`ah; and as such is the third source of rulings.
The science of fiqh started in the second century after Hijrah, when the Islamic state expanded and faced several issues which were not explicitly baytunur@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13560574816889580660noreply@blogger.com1