Educating Our Minds
We can build a strong, healthy, and well-formed body through body-building exercises. This raises the following question: If…
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Sufism And Its Origins
Sufism (tasawwuf) is the path followed by Sufis (adherents of Islamic mysticism) to reach the Truth-God. While this…
Language and Cognition: An Unexplored Territory
The desire to investigate the secrets of knowledge and cognition goes back to ancient times. The Egyptians, during…
Understanding in Teaching
I. INTRODUCTION Although it is difficult to explain the concept of understanding briefly, we will try to give…
Reflections on Man and Life
Glory be to God! How thin is the veil between the manifest and inner, invisible dimensions of existence,…
The Imperatives of Marifa the Pitfalls of Modernism
My chief aim was to stress how precious the perspective of ma‘rifa is, not only as the dimension…
Thinking Straight and the Ways to Achieve It
Some truths are absolute, universal and without exception, some are general and some relative. For example, God’s existence…
Kant, Scheler and Bediuzzaman on Man
In the 18th century Western rationalism and enlightenment movement, one of the leading names, perhaps the foremost, was…
Divine Decree and Destiny From Different Viewpoints
Divine Decree and Destiny in relation to Divine Knowledge As was pointed out earlier (in previous issues), God…
What Is The Meaning of Divine Decree and Destiny and Why is Belief in Destiny Included in the Essentials of Faith?
The original Arabic word translated as ‘destiny’ is ‘Qadar’, meaning, in its derivations, determination, giving a certain measure…
Two Different Fields for Science and Religion
Christianity did not develop as a comprehensive religion encompassing all fields of life but as a set of…
Reflections on Robinson Crusoe
Part II: Economic Individualism and Secularization The wider context of Robinson Crusoe Crusoe’s relationship with God is sincere,…
Is The Brain The Origin of Man’s Mind?
Artificial Intelligence or Al is among the most recently advanced scientific concepts. The associated field of study has…
Abuse of Religion and Religious Sentiments
The quest for truth has two principal branches which, if the quest is motivated by sincere love of…
Education from Cradle to Grave
Introduction The main duty and purpose of human life is to seek understanding. The effort of doing so,…