The most important thing for a person who seeks truth is to remain objective and be skeptical of so-called ‘given truths’ – especially ideas that are in fashion in his/her day and age. In every age and time, there were… Read More ›
Revival Thought (Al Nahda)
The two kinds of extremist
There are two kinds of extremists, ones who sacrifice principles for convenience, believing it is wisdom, and those who sacrifice wisdom mistakenly believing they are following their principles. The first hides behind the justification that the world is complicated, the… Read More ›
Has the Caliphate been re-established by ISIS?
[Short answer: No…] Yesterday, the group that has swept to mass media attention in the last month, ISIS, claimed that the Caliphate has been restored in its ‘domains’, and called for Muslims to render their pledge of allegiance (bay’ah) to… Read More ›
A Reflection on waiting for the servant, while ignoring the master
A servant is not greater than his master. So how do some people, who do nothing but wait for the Mahdi, expect the Muslim Ummah to obey the Mahdi, when they haven’t even sorted obeying Allah yet? Unity, mercy, thinking,… Read More ›
There is no worse enslavement of a man, than convincing him that he owns his own chains
Imagine, if you will, that your family home was invaded and occupied by armed gangsters. While they were there, they stole your expensive items and sold them off, they told you and your family members what to do, when to… Read More ›
Why doesn’t everyone study the West, like we study Ancient Egypt?
Ancient Egypt believed its religion, philosophy, beliefs about humans and culture were the universal standard and measure of truth. Now it is just an past civilisation that no longer exists, nor whose intellectual worldview has any influence (except of course,… Read More ›
On Idiots and Greeks
Idiot is a word derived from the Greek ἰδιώτης, or idiōtēs, which means “a private citizen”, or “individual”, and was used to refer to those who do not care about politics, public affairs or matters which touch the community. The… Read More ›
Does Islam Need Reformation?
Does Islam Need Reformation? What is the way forward? I held a talk at the Lebanon International University in Bekaa valley on the subject of whether or not Islam requires reformation. Included in the lecture, is why the demand for… Read More ›
Reject Democracy & ‘Freedom of Speech’ and predict the collapse of Western civilisation? You’re an extremist…unless you’re Chinese!
Reject Democracy, ‘Freedom of Speech’ and predict the collapse of Western civilisation?..you’re called an extremist….unless you’re Chinese! Enter Eric X. Li, a successful Chinese Entrepreneur in Shanghai, and political scientist, whose educational history includes both universities in China, and Berkeley… Read More ›
Converses of Wisdom
I redacted, amended and enlarged an old Poem I had written quickly featuring a play of discourses between a narrator and many interlocutors of differing faiths, beliefs and political persuasions. The old poem was called a ‘Converse of Wisdom’, but… Read More ›
