A follow-up to The Secular Mindset: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-AeYdFqX2w&t= And an elaboration of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJHj4BtP9Go Apologies: there is an abnormal echo on my microphone that I was unable to fix. Talking points: 1) What are علم and معرفة? ‘Ilm is revelatory, all our sciences (العلوم الشرعية) are absolute knowledge, undoubted, because their source is revelation. ‘Ilm is direct reality. Marifah is knowing directly, in which it is above the five senses (the five senses can lie to us), Allah is not known by the five senses. Faith is not a feeling. Colours cannot be known without something bearing them (Imam Mustafa Shatti) The Theory of Uncertainty (Imam Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari) 2) What Does ‘Science’ Mean in the Anglosphere? - “Laws” based on patterns and regularities (Fann without Usul model) - Descartes and Chung Chou: "I think therefore I am", and "What am I?" The enigma of Chung Chou - Europeans only have hypotheses and narratives (the belief that the future will behave like the past), they never reach the core of the matter, they just overturn past theories (societal catastrophism), keep building up and destroying paradigms (Thomas Kuhn, The History of Scientific Revolutions), e.g. beat your kids with paddles to no corporal punishment all, - The example of Copernicus - Carbon 14 dating: Direct Knowledge vs Acquired Knowledge - Evolution (and the connection to Geology) - Anthropogenic Global Warming - Vaccines 3) The Existence of the Creation is Contingent: - Nothing holds intrinsic qualities (Surat al-Anbiyaa 21:69) (Aal Imran 3:45-51 - واجب الوجود وممكن الوجود (Necessary Existence vs. Contingent Existence - الحلول والتناسخ ("Divine Indwelling" and Reincarnation) - Muslims who have gone through the 15-year system have taken on the hulool thinking - Muslims have imbibed Protestant thinking (again, faith is not a feeling), “burning in the chest” - Brain Use (Prophets and those that came after them) - Is the universe the same when someone dies? 4) Closing Points: • Reality and Judgment • Free Will and Determinism • Muslims should be in the middle between Sophistry and Materialism Further Reading: The Scientific Method for Researching Truth: http://mahdinnm.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-scientific-method-for-researching.html The Importance of Objective Standards: http://mahdinnm.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-importance-of-objective-standards.html Man's Creation and the Theory of Evolution: http://mahdinnm.blogspot.com/2019/06/mans-creation-and-theory-of-evolution.html Al-Hajj Abu Ja'far's new book is available here: http://www.lulu.com/shop/imam-diya-ud-din-al-maqdisi/the-life-and-times-of-abu-umar-al-maqdisi/paperbac ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=288DzbsYHEc

By Imam Muhammad Saeed Ramadan al-Bouti, may Allah have mercy on him Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHmzBZTvbuc Sources and Further Reading: Imam an-Nawawi on the Ten Days of Dhul Hijjah: https://mahdinnm.blogspot.com/2011/11/imam-nawawi-on-ten-days-of-dhul-hijja.html?m=0 Dhul Hijjah. the Day of 'Arafah, and Fasting: https://mahdinnm.blogspot.com/2015/09/dhul-hijjah-day-of-arafah-and-fasting.html?m=0 NEW: Please subscribe to The Foreword on Telegram: t.me/TheForeword Please like, share, and subscribe. You can also support this channel by buying a book: (NEW!) Al-Wāfī: A Thorough Commentary on The Forty Hadith of Imam An-Nawawī: https://nawabooks.com/products/alwafi Excerpt: https://mahdinnm.blogspot.com/2019/07/victory-is-with-patience.html (NEW!): The book is also available in the UK and US: http://mahdinnm.blogspot.com/2021/04/book-release-al-wafi-thorough.html (NEW!)The Opening of The Hearts in Explaining the State of the Deceased and of the Graves (Sharḥ as-Ṣudūr bi Sharḥ Ḥāl al-Mawtā wa al-Qubūr): https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/imam-jal%C4%81l-ad-d%C4%ABn-as-suy%C5%AB%E1%B9%AD%C4%AB-and-mahdi-lock/the-opening-of-the-hearts/paperback/product-vqwqy6.html Excerpt: https://mahdinnm.blogspot.com/2017/10/are-nafs-soul-and-ruh-spirit-same-or-not.html (NEW!): The book is also available in Asia: https://mahdinnm.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-opening-of-hearts-now-available-in.html The Approach to Human Civilization in the Qur’an: https://mahdinnm.blogspot.com/2019/11/book-release-approach-to-human.html The Big Step: https://mahdinnm.blogspot.com/2018/07/book-release-big-step.html The Big Step (eBook): https://mahdinnm.blogspot.com/2019/07/ebook-release-big-step.html The Wonders of Waqf: https://mahdinnm.blogspot.com/2019/07/book-release-wonders-of-waqf.html (UPDATE: This book is now available for only £5.99 from Lulu: https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/mahdi-lock/the-wonders-of-waqf/paperback/product-176gq7mp.html) The Great Event Has Occurred: https://mahdinnm.blogspot.com/2019/07/book-release-great-event-has-occurred.html Islamic Law Is Not Misogynistic: https://mahdinnm.blogspot.com/2019/08/book-release-islamic-law-is-not.html Upcoming titles include: Man And Allah’s Justice On Earth: http://mahdinnm.blogspot.com/2019/10/uthman-ibn-ertugruls-advice-to-his-son.html ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh4pJ23Vxak

Part 2 of the Introduction to The Book of Waqf , which is to be republished soon, insha'Allah The text for this episode is available here: http://mahdinnm.blogspot.com/2019/09/a-summary-of-rulings-of-waqf-part-2.html Part 1 is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WozWam5edLI Part 3 is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82EaaLYVpv8&t= Appendix C of this book has been republished as The Wonders of Waqf: http://mahdinnm.blogspot.com/2019/07/... Slavery in Islam vs New World Slavery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En5Zk6if_7o&t= #Waqf #Endowments #LearnAboutWaqf ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB4XV_gSryw

The first part of our commentary on the sixth hadith of Imam an-Nawawi's collection. The halal is clear and the haraam is clear, but what about the ambiguous matters in the middle? What is the difference between being careful and falling prey to Satanic whisperings? Please share and subscribe. Further reading: The Book of the Lawful and the Unlawful by Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (http://mahdinnm.blogspot.com/2013/02/book-release-book-of-lawful-and-unlawful.html) Imam al-Ghazali on Communism (http://mahdinnm.blogspot.com/2016/11/imam-al-ghazali-on-communism-plus-true.html) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KU4efNnDK8