The "Islamic Political" between the traditional polity and nation-state paradigm: the traditional 'secularity' & modern 'islamism' | 🧵

An islamic polity in the pre-nation state age had distinct political and religious spheres however it cannot be conceived as secular but bi-sovereign (p. heck) to be specific, in the sense that the governing bodies (politically sovereign) were responsible for upholding a certain requirements and obligations (demanded by religion-Islam itself) so the other sovereign class could carry out their responsibilities, the political sovereignty here had little control over the religious-communal praxis - which was governed by the parallel sovereignty - the religio-socio-communal authorities (ulema & sufis). Each had their own sphere of upholding and maintaining islamic ideals, even though the operations of the socio-communal sovereignty depended on the sovereignty of the political-military for security concerns, this did not grant the latter an allowance to interfere in the essential functions of Islam as manifested and discussed by the socio-communal polity (with exceptions occasionally). Imam Shafi'i methodological efforts to secure the development of Islam from the arbitrary influences of the political sovereignty cemented this bi-sovereignty. (el-shamsy)

Khilafah as an ethico-spiritual existential purpose: al-Raghib al-Isfahani's theory of human vicegerency | 🧵

Read time - 15 minutes approximately. Introduction -

Khilafah has always been a central concept of Islamic theology particularly gaining momentum in its political imaginations in the 20th century. Its current popular understanding holds it to be restrictively synonymous with exclusive political sovereignty in dunya. The current essay however sheds light on an alternative perspective on khilafah, as an existential ethico-spiritual condition rather than an activity of political domination and subjugation - exploring the theories of the concept independent of its modern articulations within the nation-state paradigm. Al-Raghib al-Isfahani's (rh) conceptualisation of human vicegerency would be our pivot idea here alongside a few other pre-modern and contemporary thinkers of the Islamic tradition.

The mirage of the success through imitation of the modern west | 🧵

& the muslim need for ideologically sovereign material institution building. /20 Secular modernity as a social system is a consequence of the western historical contingencies (genealogy) and is therefore particularly native to western identity and its success - the west can be true to it and thus achieve success through it.

إِنَّمَا الأَعْمَالُ بِالنِّيَّةِ

Prof. Jackson's islamic secular is a backtracking from the ghazalian shariah-tasawwuf synthetic culture of the islamic legal philosophy.

The sacred & the profane were never distinct in Islam because of the all encompassing muslim subjectivity.
For even the "profane" acts as minimal as clearing any obstruction in the civil pathway or putting a morsel of food in one's wife's mouth were qualified as components of faith and described in the language of religiosity because they were governed by and hence judged by niyyah.

muslim secularists would have you believe that - our souls were gathered in alam e arwah for a direct covenant with God, that the entire world was destroyed through flood during nuh's a.s times, that ibrahim a.s clashed directly with the babylonian emperor of his time, that ibrahim a.s left his family in the barren deserts of arabia, that ibrahim a.s sacrificed laid down every single thing he loved for sacrifice, that yusuf a.s was sold in the bazaars of misr, that musa a.s confronted the most powerful earthly authority of his age head on,

The Muslim youth should be aware that this idea of forced financial independency doesn't go well with our identities and the sacred duties on our shoulders in this age. Indeed there are those who have to support their families all by themselves and they should definitely work on financial independency & success.

The idea of Western Modernity as a Category Neutral and its self perception as the Meta-Worldview | 🧵

a brief introductory overview.

(Read time: Approx. 30 min) Introduction.

Having gone through over eighty books on the subject of Islam & the Political, here are my top ten. | 🧵

Islam & the Political has been my prioritised line of research for the past two years, and the following are my personal (subjective) favourite most works in this field. The list/ranking has been made on the following criteria points, each rated out of 5 marks.

1. Initial impact.
2. Agreeableness/current influence
3. Depth, Scope and Technicality.
4. Writing/Presentation.
5. The importance for the average muslim student.

Total: /25

These three papers, in my estimation are a must read for every student of Islamic Sciences in these times.

(Key Words: Modernity, De-coloniality - Structural Genocide - Epistemic Imperialism)

1. by @JosephLumbardacademia.edu/resource/work/… 2. by Prof. Umar Faruqueacademia.edu/resource/work/…

The compartmentalised understanding of Atheism by the laity. | an essay 🧵

This is for the laity (majority) of atheism. If you're an atheist, i want you to take your atheism seriously - by applying atheism to each and every aspect of your life as an ideology, because that's what it entails even if you're just ignorant of that.

One of the problems with those (the laity) who hold the stance of "a denial of God's existence" is that they believe it to be a solely religious position - they deem it to be a stance that is limited to

The functionality of the globalisation of "human rights" discourse for the west | 🧵

Most people don't understand the inherent politicisation in the discourse of human rights as preached by the western superpowers - and therefore end up falling for the illusion of benevolence from the western end.

When west exports its value systems to "third-world" or developing nations, its assumed by laymen in naivety that the sole purpose of such 'educational schemes and moral frameworks' is the betterment of their society.

Muhammad ﷺ, "The Warmonger".

The reason why nobody and nothing can convince me of the prophet being, a warmonger, a cruel general, and a delusional liar is this. This in no way is a syllogistic argument, nor a logical proof yet is enough for the heart to know. How will you convince a muslim that the man with such level of emotional intelligence and empathy was a war lord?

Secularism - 3 key philosophical problems for its muslim adherents | an extensive 🧵

- The Paradox of Tolerance.
- The Problem of Neutral Equality.
- The Problem of Meta-Ethics. - Preface: definition.

Secularism here, would be understood in its most minimal sense, that is appealed to, by muslim secularist - as simply an idea that demands absolute exclusion of Islam from the constitutional and governmental order of the state.

(1/35)

So this book claimed to provide the most comprehensive and structural theory of Muslim Secular-democracy |🧵

The book engages the most reputed modernist and progressive muslim-secularists like Abdullahi Naimi, Mohammed Talbi and Khaled Abou Fadl.

So, i really wanted to give... it a fair read and engage with it honestly since spanning over 240 pages, its the most ambitious effort i have come across to develop a Muslim-Secularist political theory.

But, boy oh boy i have been disappointed. Its not like i was expecting something solid anyways from

Shinto through Miyazaki's Ghibli & the parallels in Islamic Cosmology | 🧵

[ancient cosmologies against modernity] 1. Introduction: Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki & Shintoism.

Okay then, Here's how to Understand Tawakkul through Goku's Ultra-Instinct | 🧵

[as absurd as it may sound, do give this a read + this is nothing more than an inference of a mere layman]

https://twitter.com/salafiyah218/status/1827740788068941926

1. Introduction - Akira Toriyama's Zen-Buddhist & Taoist influences.

The Mutazilite "rationalist" theologian Al-Jahiz absolutely picking apart the (proto) secularists of his age. | 🧵

During a phase where secular disciplines of power and culture were being adopted by rulers on the advice of imperial scribes (advisors) who themselves were much more influenced by extra-islamic models of socio-governance (sassanian/byzantine) - Al-Jahiz took a firm stand for traditional islamic values. Criticising vehemently the worldly cultures, the secular elites of his time were trying to sneak into the islamic civilisation.

I am not some fan of Sahil Adeem but this half baked intellectualism of Pakistanis is just confident ignorance at its peak.

Not only do they not understand the varying metaphysical natures of our problems, in this particular case they are failing to understand the root problem

https://twitter.com/mujhaycryaraha/status/1815377299640111383

of our society. All the problems of our society, whether they be economical, social, political, technological, structural or of meritocracy, structural - all have to do simply with the philosophical domain of ethics and morality and hence require ethical solutions.

Western Scientific Enlightenment - a direct birth child of Colonialism | a super-thread🧵

This thread explains the impossibility of imagining the western scientific revolution without its contingency upon colonial ventures. Even tho the west would like to believe that modern science is simply a product of the intrinsic genius of the west, this idea couldn't be far from the truth when its scrutinised through historical narratives.

"I am a Muslim"
"No one is superior to another because of their religious identity"
"Islam demands you to give the same amount of respect to other religions as it does for itself".

Dude is trying hard to be a wannabe unbiased intellectual at the cost of making basic sense. By the very fact that you consider Truth to be virtuous and better than Falsehood, & you consider your adopted ideology to be closer to Truth than others ideologies - automatically concludes that you consider your ideological position to be more virtuous & superior to others.

Copernicus's "couple" diagram & al-Tusi's original couple diagram. As can be seen nicolaus even used the exact equivalent letters,

ا = A
ب = B
ج= G
ی = E

There's absolutely no denying that Copernicus simply couldn't have made sense of his heliocentric model without Tusi.

Not only Al-Tusi but his work was just a continuation of the discourse of muslim scientists like Ibn al-Haytham and Ali Qushji in the issue of solar system models.