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Arabic is the language of Islam and is what its sciences are based upon, and by which its vision of reality and truth is projected. Languages are susceptible to semantic change throughout history, and of relative/subjective interpretations in their linguistic symbols. Arabic, however, when couched in the form of the Holy Qur'an, isn't bc it is established in firm, objective 'roots', and its semantic fields are fixed.
— Jun 03, 2022 02:16PM
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The key concepts originating from Western religious and intellectual tradition that must be isolated as foreign are:
1) The concept of dualism
2) Their dualism of mind and body, their methodological cleavage pertaining to rationalism and empiricism
3) Their doctrine of humanism; the secular ideology
4) Their concept of tragedy - mainly in literature
— Jun 04, 2022 02:42PM
1) The concept of dualism
2) Their dualism of mind and body, their methodological cleavage pertaining to rationalism and empiricism
3) Their doctrine of humanism; the secular ideology
4) Their concept of tragedy - mainly in literature
Mitya
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The islamization of knowledge means the deliverance of knowledge from its interpretation based on secular ideology; and from meanings and expressions of the secular.
To our knowledge, universities must add:
1) Comparative religious studies from Islamic POV
2) Western culture and civilisation, to understand what is confronting Islam
3) Linguistic sciences
4) Islamic history
— Jun 04, 2022 02:39PM
To our knowledge, universities must add:
1) Comparative religious studies from Islamic POV
2) Western culture and civilisation, to understand what is confronting Islam
3) Linguistic sciences
4) Islamic history
Mitya
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The highest and most perfect embodiment of the educational system is the university; and since it is of the highest and most perfect systematization of knowledge designed to reflect the universal, it must also be a reflection not just of any man, but of the Universal or Perfect Man (al-insan al kamil). Modern universities do not reflect man, but the secular state.
— Jun 04, 2022 11:45AM
Mitya
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In the 'Abbasi period, restriction of Islamised meaning of adab had begun b/c of prevailing urbanity, + prevalence of officialdom/bureaucracy. Al-Ghazali had pointed out how confusion resulted from restriction of original terms to meanings not intended by early Muslims. Eg., fiqh meant religious insight that brings about taqwa. Then it was restricted to mean jurisprudence.
— Jun 04, 2022 11:42AM
Mitya
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The concept of education is encompassed in the term 'ta'dib', not 'tarbiyah'. The latter has been coined by Modernists, reflecting the Western concept of education in a way similar to the latin meanings. They betray a lack of understanding of the semantic structures of the Quranic conceptual system. Al-Attas explains the true meaning of 'tarbiyah', which is not specific enough, and has been used for secular purposes.
— Jun 04, 2022 11:05AM
Mitya
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Adab is recognition and acknowledgement of the reality that knowledge and being are ordered hierarchically according to their various grades and degrees of rank, and of one's proper place in relation to that reality and to one's physical, intellectual and spiritual capacities and potentials.
— Jun 04, 2022 11:02AM
Mitya
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The definition of the content of education is "recognition and acknowledgement of the proper places of things in the order of creation, such that it leads to the recognition and acknowledgement of the proper place of God in the order of bring and existence." Truth, or 'haqq' is then a "suitableness to the requirements of the proper places of things as recognized as true judgement".
— Jun 03, 2022 02:38PM
Mitya
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Education is a process of instilling something into human beings, the 'process of instilling' referring to the content of what is instilled; and 'human beings' refers to the recipient of both the process and the content. Education is something progressively instilled into man.
— Jun 03, 2022 02:36PM
Mitya
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The Modernist movement has marked systematic undermining of past scholarship and its intellectual and spiritual leadership. They have advocated methods which strongly resemble Christian hermeneutics, depending largely upon learned conjecture, based on subjective speculation and the notion of historical relativism. The difficulty in absorbing foreign concepts lies in worldview, not language.
— Jun 03, 2022 02:35PM
Mitya
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If we lose semantic precision with regards to the application of Islamic terms then it is only because we have lost the concept of adab, which is putting things in their correct place, not 'social change'. Major key terms in the Islamic basic vocabulary have been displaced and made to serve in areas which they do not belong. This causes regression towards non-Islamic worldview, a deislamization of language.
— Jun 03, 2022 02:26PM
