The best way to understand the object of the study of Uṣūl is to imagine yourself in the position of a scholar who is tasked with finding answers to legal questions. Before you embark on finding answers to legal questions, there are a number of preliminary matters you must determine. Continue reading A Primer On Islamic Legal Theory (Uṣūl Al-Fiqh)
The spiderweb simile found in Surah Al-‘Ankabut of The Qur’an occurs in reference to the recipients of God’s message before the time of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Continue reading Secularism and The Spiderweb Simile of Surah Al-’Ankabut
Whilst No Country for Old Men never alludes directly to the existence of God, it spurs us to think about the cycle of life as we inevitably come to the conclusion that there has to be a higher being in charge of the good and bad things that come our way. Continue reading Fate and Free Will in No Country for Old Men
The concept of continuous moral progress over time, born out of the Enlightenment era and continuing into postmodernity, has become a paradigm by which we critique the past, gauge our ethical compass, and form policy. Continue reading The Illusion of Moral Progress
A Book Review of Marxism and Other Western Fallacies by Ali Shariati. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century[1], and has been dubbed the “ideologue of the Iranian Revolution.” Continue reading Humanism between Islam and the West
The ancient Greek philosophy of Stoicism has been making headway over the past decade as a new-age movement of sorts. Continue reading The Stumblings of Stoicism
Monty Python is hardly the place for great philosophical epiphanies, but sometimes inspiration can be found in the strangest of places. Continue reading Fitrah in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
A brief gloss on print culture would be instructive in understanding the historical relationship between oral cultures and the written word. Continue reading Reviving Writing
The qualitative weightiness of the pen (qalam) is measured by the fact that it has been worded in the first verses revealed to the Prophet ﷺ, where it directly follows narratives about creation and is itself linked to knowledge… Continue reading The Lost Art of Writing
It has become a redundant trope among critical Muslims within Islam and the non-Muslim critics of Islam to gleefully point out what they consider to be the absolute passivity of “the Islamic world” in the fields of science and technology. Continue reading Technology as a Mode of Secular-Liberal Theology
