With regard to "Judeo Christian":
The 10 Commandments are Jewish.
The great stories of the Old Testament are Jewish.
The Jews developed the idea of subsidiarity as the alternative to tyranny and slavery.
The Jews established the cultural preconditions for the rise of universal literacy.
The fate of Israel at the hands of the Islamists is the fate of the West.
This rising tide of anti-semitism sickens me. Those of you engaging in it for your oh-so-moral reasons—you're despicable.
And remember, you proud "Christians" objecting in all your purity to the term:
Christ Himself was a Jew.
@husnayn_ I’ve always dreamed of visiting this bookstore. I’ll probably end up with an even bigger haul than yours. It’s a shame they don’t ship to Russia.
Almost every Islamic rule was considered liberal by the standard of its time and society.
Nobody saw Mohammad ﷺ as a conservative reformer, he was often opposed for being too lenient..
Providing Cigarettes to the Wife.
Al Halabi and Al Hifni Al shafi’i mentioned its obligated upon the husband to provide cigarettes for the wife is she is accustomed
to it.
تحفة المحتاج في شرح المنهاج
Well it's saturday again.
The one truly day off people who work a job for a living have.
Lots of happy people walking around outside. Doing activities. Lots of energy on the sidewalks.
Saturday is the day for humanity to be happy.
A central reason Muslims have never yet flourished on a large scale in the West is our almost wholly negative attitude towards shari'a or sacred law. Negative shari'a should pivot on clear red lines, not a paranoia about whether or not everyday life is "halal."
The real purpose of sacred law is in any case positive; it provides principles for maximized human flourishing in accordance with the lofty vision of human nature that has been revealed to us, not a raft of complexes and prohibitions.
The true Muslim's natural assumption when encountering a new situation is not only that it is "halal", but that its halal status need not even be investigated. God created all that is in the earth for you; everything on this earth was created for our benefit, in order to help us in actualising the holistic flourishing demanded by our nature; it was not created so that we could be suspicious, uneasy, and paranoid about every unfamiliar thing that we encounter.
Instead, in everything you do be faithful and loyal to the haqa'iq and the sha'a'ir, the spiritual realities and the outward symbols of the din. It is that deep spiritual orientation and the pursuit of the corresponding truth, beauty, and goodness in all things which will keep you on the Straight Path, the path of closeness to Allah, not an unhealthy and morally lazy dependence on a "mufti" who has lost all touch with reality.
He created all that is in the earth for you is indeed one of the proof texts for the fiqh maxim "the default assumption is permissibility." We should combine it with the hadith, "Seek the moral judgement of your heart," and recognise that a pedantic and partisan fiqh madhhab calculus is rarely the right way to achieve the maqasid of the din in this time.
From the
ضروريات
to the
تحسينيات
the purposes of sacred law are configured to facilitate the cultivation of truth, beauty, and goodness in the life of each individual believer. Social and cultural non-participation, the self-incarceration of authentically Islamic creative energies, and our defaulting to "halal" medicine and engineering, and thus becoming grey, lifeless non-presences in Western societies that we should be transforming with light, is the price our communities pay for our lazy (and unislamic) legalism.
@dieworkwear Seeking power should be disqualifying for having it. Literally picking random people off the street would be better than electing power seekers.
The ones who oppose animation have bigger issues than opposing animation, and those need to be addressed first. Their entire approach to religion is reducing it to Fiqh rulings, and then treating specific Fiqh opinions as absolute with no leeway. They do not view Islam beyond Fiqh, and have no understanding or appreciation of the importance of art and culture. They really need a major paradigm shift in their understanding of Islam itself.