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Robert Spencer in FrontPage Mag: Malaysian Mufti Denounces Intellect and Logic as Un-Islamic

Aug 7, 2015 11:39 am By Robert Spencer

Perak Mufti Tan Sri Harussani ZakariaIn FrontPage today, I discuss Islam’s persistent anti-intellectualism:

The Malay Mail Online reported Tuesday that the Perak mufti, Tan Sri Harussani Zakaria, advised Muslim members of the government “not to go overboard.” He reminded them that “Islam is based on faith… Don’t make any remarks based on the intellect or logic…” Why not? Because “the intellect is governed by desires and it is influence by shaitan (satan). Don’t be ruled by desires and rudderless comments.” Harussani was reflecting an aspect of Islam that runs through its history, but is little remarked upon today by Western analysts: its anti-intellectualism and rejection of reason.

An apocryphal story about the caliph Umar sums up an attitude that has always been prevalent in the Islamic world: Umar, after conquering Egypt, is said to have ordered the burning of the fabled Library of Alexandria. When asked why, he responded: “If the books in it agree with the Qur’an, they are superfluous. If they disagree with the Qur’an, they are heretical.” Only one book was needed – and even if this story isn’t historically accurate, it reflects an anti-intellectualism that has run through Islamic history and persists today.

This tendency is founded in Islam’s central text. At one point the Qur’an excoriates the Jews for suggesting limits to Allah’s power. The passage is ambiguous, but its principal import is plain enough: They dared to say that there was something Allah could not do: “And the Jews say, ‘The hand of Allah is chained.’ Chained are their hands, and cursed are they for what they say. Rather, both His hands are extended; He spends however He wills” (5:64). Neither does he have any obligation to disclose any consistency or anything else in what he does: “He shall not be questioned as to what he does” (21:23).

What could the Jews have possibly meant, if any Jews ever said it at all? It is possible that they meant that God, being good, would be consistent, and would operate the universe according to consistent and observable laws. This would not have been so much a limitation on what God could do, but upon what he would do. As St. Thomas Aquinas explained: “Since the principles of certain sciences—of logic, geometry, and arithmetic, for instance — are derived exclusively from the formal principals of things, upon which their essence depends, it follows that God cannot make the contraries of these principles; He cannot make the genus not to be predicable of the species, nor lines drawn from a circle’s center to its circumference not to be equal, nor the three angles of a rectilinear triangle not to be equal to two right angles” (emphasis added).

This proposition of divine consistency was key for the development of scientific inquiry. “The rise of science,” observes social scientist Rodney Stark, “was not an extension of classical learning. It was the natural outgrowth of Christian doctrine: nature exists because it was created by God. In order to love and honor God, it is necessary to fully appreciate the wonders of his handiwork. Because God is perfect, that handiwork functions in accord with immutable principles. By the full use of our God-given powers of reason and observation, it ought to be possible to discover those principles.” That process of discovery became the foundation of modern science. “These were the crucial ideas,” says Stark, “that explain why science arose in Christian Europe and nowhere else.”

Indeed, for an Islamic culture to have affirmed that God’s creation operates according to immutable principles would have been nothing short of blasphemy. Allah’s hand is not fettered by consistency or by anything else. Allah is absolutely free to do anything he wills to do, without any expectations or limitations deriving from logic, love, or anything else. This idea made sure that scientific exploration in the Islamic world would be stillborn.

In his Guide for the Perplexed, the twelfth-century Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides described the Islamic thinkers with whom he was in contact as rejecting absolutes as illegitimately binding upon Allah’s will:

Human intellect does not perceive any reason why a body should be in a certain place instead of being in another. In the same manner [the Muslim philosophers] say that reason admits the possibility that an existing being should be larger or smaller than it really is, or that it should be different in form and position from what it really is; e.g., a man might have the height of a mountain, might have several heads, and fly in the air; or an elephant might be as small as an insect, or an insect as huge as an elephant.

This method of admitting possibilities is applied to the whole Universe. Whenever they affirm that a thing belongs to this class of admitted possibilities, they say that it can have this form and that it is also possible that it be found differently, and that the one form is not more possible than the other; but they do not ask whether the reality confirms their assumption.

[They say] fire causes heat, water causes cold, in accordance with a certain habit; but it is logically not impossible that a deviation from this habit should occur, namely, that fire should cause cold, move downward, and still be fire; that the water should cause heat, move upward, and still be water. On this foundation their whole [intellectual] fabric is constructed.

According to the priest/physicist Fr. Stanley L. Jaki, the great Muslim philosopher al-Ghazali “denounced natural laws, the very objective of science, as a blasphemous constraint upon the free will of Allah.” Al-Ghazali (1058-1111), although himself a philosopher, delivered what turned out to be the coup de grace to Islamic philosophical investigation, at least as a vibrant mainstream force, in his monumental attack on the very idea of Islamic philosophy: Incoherence of the Philosophers.

Muslim philosophers such as Avicenna and Averroes, according to al-Ghazali, were not intellectual trailblazers worthy of respect and careful consideration. In positing that there could be truth that was outside of or even contradicted what Allah had revealed in the Qur’an, they had shown themselves to be nothing more than heretics who should be put to death and their books burned. Al-Ghazali accused them of “denial of revealed laws and religious confessions” and “rejection of the details of religious and sectarian [teaching], believing them to be man-made laws and embellished tricks.” He declared that the doctrines of Muslim philosophers such as al-Farabi and Avicenna “challenge the [very] principles of religion.”

Al-Ghazali, said scholar Tilman Nagel, “was inspired by a notion that we frequently see in Islam’s intellectual history: the notion that everything human beings can possibly know is already contained in the Koran and the hadith; only naïve people can be made to believe that there is knowledge beyond them.”

At the end of The Incoherence of the Philosophers, Al-Ghazali reveals how high the stakes are: “If someone says: ‘You have explained the doctrines of these [philosophers]; do you then say conclusively that they are infidels and that the killing of those who uphold their beliefs is obligatory?” He then concludes that they should indeed be pronounced infidels, and therefore, presumably, be executed.

Tan Sri Harussani Zakaria would doubtless agree.

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  1. Jaladhi says

    Aug 7, 2015 at 12:04 pm

    Of course, the dumb people can’t tolerate logic and intelligence!! There are no dumber people than the followers of ROP which makes them dumb with the religious fatwas like this.

    Everything is unIslamic if not written in Quran! Dumbo – where are you??

    • Jaladhi says

      Aug 7, 2015 at 12:06 pm

      Murder, rape, incest, pedophilia …. are all Islamic as these are all in Quran, Sira and Hadiths.

      • cs says

        Aug 7, 2015 at 1:02 pm

        We need to admit that he was very coherent with the material (crap) that he follows.

        • Huck Folder says

          Aug 11, 2015 at 2:12 am

          OCD? Bonce-bashing religiously, five times a day?

        • Huck Folder says

          Aug 11, 2015 at 2:18 am

          Intellect and Logic are Un-Islamic.

          Ergo: islam is unintelligent and illogical.

          Spock: “Captain, I am not a moslem.”

    • M S case says

      Aug 8, 2015 at 7:08 pm

      Seems to me this muffit or muffin or whatever he is called is speaking of the islamist already dumb, dumb, dumb

  2. mccode says

    Aug 7, 2015 at 12:07 pm

    A theocracy of ignorance.

  3. Sam says

    Aug 7, 2015 at 12:35 pm

    This Mufti is 100 percent right.

    • Voytek Gagalka says

      Aug 7, 2015 at 3:03 pm

      The problem is not that he is right on that but why, knowing that he is right, he still considers Mohammedan doctrines to be superior to anything else instead of rejecting them out of hand as utter nonsense contrary to reason. That shows his (and other followers) the biggest moral depravation of all. Anti-reason is anti-life, to quote my favorite philosopher.

    • john spielman says

      Aug 7, 2015 at 3:08 pm

      and this is why all islamic countries are backward cesspools of evil and darkness and depravity; because they obey and worship satan /allah and his pedophile demon possessed false prophet mass murderer thief liar misogynist and necrophiliac -muhammed pbuh*
      pbuh- PERPETUAL BANISHMENT UNTO HELL!

    • Shane says

      Aug 8, 2015 at 10:28 am

      Yes, being logical and objective when looking at Islam is not good for Islam! It makes no sense for Muslims to believe that a man who was a warlord, rapist, murderer, liar, womanizer, pedophile and a slave trader is the perfect man for them to emulate. Looking at Muhammad objectively, he is one of the worst human beings ever for religious people to emulate. BTW, Muhammad did all of those disgusting things while he was considered to be the prophet of Islam.

  4. Buraq says

    Aug 7, 2015 at 12:48 pm

    C’mon, cut the clown some slack! He believes that an angel with 600 wings visited Mohammed to deliver Allah’s revelations from time to time. What’s wrong with that? — except that space is a vast, freezing vacuum and there would be no propulsion or lift for any winged creature!

    A minor detail!

    • Westman says

      Aug 7, 2015 at 4:37 pm

      Then there is always the impossible:

      Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle said, “The first group of people who will enter Paradise, will be glittering like the full moon and those who will follow them, will glitter like the most brilliant star in the sky. They will not urinate, relieve nature, spit, or have any nasal secretions. Their combs will be of gold, and their sweat will smell like musk. The aloes-wood will be used in their centers. Their wives will be houris. All of them will look alike and will resemble their father Adam (in statute), sixty cubits tall.” (Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 55, Number 544)”

      Anyone familiar with physiology or physics realizes that the human body does not scale up to 90 ft tall. Imagine Adam 90 ft tall. So where are these giant’s remains? Where are the transition fossils? Muslim “scholars” try to explain it away by saying the earth was only a small fraction of it’s current size when Adam lived.

      One delusion to support another simply leads to the absurd.

      • voegelinian says

        Aug 8, 2015 at 3:03 pm

        “The aloes-wood will be used in their centers. ”

        I wonder what that’s about…

        • Huck Folder says

          Aug 11, 2015 at 2:21 am

          wood, peckers?

    • Shane says

      Aug 8, 2015 at 10:33 am

      Don’t forget Muhammad’s magical flying horse, who took him to heaven!

  5. mortimer says

    Aug 7, 2015 at 1:12 pm

    OBSCURANTISM

    The statements of Harussani Zakaria are the PERFECT DEFINITION of obscurantism: “the practice of deliberately preventing the facts or full details of something from becoming known or a policy of opposition to the spread of knowledge or of withholding knowledge from the public.”

    Robert Spencer has adequately quoted authorities of Islam who confirm Islamic obscurantism.

    Harussaini Zakaria, is one of the top Islamic clerics in Indonesia and has been a mufti since 1985. No one can claim that he ‘misunderstands Islam’. He appears to have been involved in internal espionage as a ‘special duties officer’ of the Home Office.

    Harussaini Zakaria has in the past also claimed that there is no such thing as rape in a Muslim marriage.

    Harussani also pontificated that Muslim women should have sex on a camel if their husband demands it, but then contradicted himself by saying that gymnastics were not for Muslim women. His critics, USING LOGIC, said ‘Okay, sex on a camel would require gymnastic skills, no?’

    Malaysian gymnast Farah Ann Abdul Hadi, despite winning a gold medal at the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, was criticized by the Malaysian Muslim community for revealing her “aurat” (any part of the female body…legs, arms, ankles, etc.)

    Harussani demanded that non-Muslims ‘cover up’ to ‘respect’ Muslims (presumably to conform with Sharia law) and not even drink water in front of Muslims during Ramadan.

    Harussani also claimed that crosses and devils on soccer jerseys were haram.

    Harussani said that it is haram or forbidden for a Muslim to pray for the well-being of a non-Muslim.

    Supremacist/misogynist Harussani has a particular hatred for women and kafirs. Does he misunderstand Islam? Or understand it perfectly?

  6. Westman says

    Aug 7, 2015 at 1:12 pm

    The typical Muslim walks about with cell phone, ipod, radio, wristwatch, GPS device and rides on a train, motorcycle automobile, or an airplane. If a cleric or lecturer he draws attention to details with a laser pointer. He turns on his electric appliances with a switch. He observes a rocket carrying men to the Moon. He takes medicines and cures for disease and discomfort. Even the militant Muslim uses weapons not developed by Muslims.

    Nowhere in the Quran and Hadith is there a description of the scientific principles or of the absolute reliability of those principles.

    Yet there are Muslim clerics who still say the world is flat and the Sun goes around the Earth because they think the Quran and Hadith have all the answers.

    Muslims had 1400 years to develop all the scientific knowledge of the Quran into usable and life-enhancing products. Instead they use what was developed by Infidels. That is proof enough that not only is Islam the Mother Of Bad Ideas, it is also the Abortion Master Of Good Ideas.

    It should be obvious to any observer that Muslim clerics(and Sunnah) are incredibly stupid in the field of science and are retarding progress for Muslims; bringing ridicule and humiliation for primitivism upon the Muslim Ummah.

    • mortimer says

      Aug 7, 2015 at 1:21 pm

      Muslims regress backwards to the 7th century, rather than progressing FORWARDS to new discoveries.

      They feel no need to discover or invent anything because PERFECTION is in the past.

      ‘Bida’ (innovation) is haram (forbidden) in Islam. Muslims are afraid of independent thought. It’s blasphemous. That gets you killed.

      If Harussani had more power, he would behead half of Malaysia and chop the hands off the other half.

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 7, 2015 at 1:27 pm

    Of course faith in Islam had nothing to do with intellect or logic. Islam is based on feelings and emotion not on intellect, logic or reason. This is a reminder that Benjamin Franklin had printed in POOR RICHARD’S ALMANAC K “The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”

  8. Angemon says

    Aug 7, 2015 at 1:58 pm

    Welcome to our mosque, please leave your shoes and brain by the door…

    • Wellington says

      Aug 7, 2015 at 2:16 pm

      Just to add to that, Angemon, the butt, unlike the shoes and brain, must be kept because that’s what’s highest when a Muslim prays. That’s why I often refer to Muslims as Buttlims. My God, they can’t even manage to pray with dignity, so deficient are Muslims (Buttlims) across the board.

      • Westman says

        Aug 7, 2015 at 4:13 pm

        Perhaps the wrong Moon image is displayed on so many flags and minarets?

        The sign of the slave…

        • Huck Folder says

          Aug 11, 2015 at 2:34 am

          Well observe that the common flags have the crescent on the left,
          the WANING moon, foreshadowing islam’s ultimate demise.

    • Raja says

      Aug 8, 2015 at 6:48 am

      Angemon,

      I don’t know if all are welcome to the mosque. Recently non-muslims were sent out at a funeral prayer of a highly respected “muslim” leader who was not even a practicing muslim. And this is just the opposite of what Christians do…

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Aug 10, 2015 at 10:27 pm

      Now wouldn’t *that* make a brilliant cartoon? Perhaps Bosch Fawstin could do it.

      Or Kurt Westergaard, or Lars Vilks. If Charlie Hebdo hadn’t buckled, they could have done one and put it on their front cover.

      A long line of Muslims marching into the mosque and as each one approaches the door, they lift up their turbans (like flipping a lid), lift out their brain, dump it into a big rubbish-bin beside the door… march on into the mosque with empty eyes.

      Or else they lift off their *heads*, Holus Bolus, and drop the *heads* into the bin, and march on into the mosque, without their heads. Those who behead women, children, bound captives, are those who have first – metaphorically speaking – removed their *own* heads; by wiping their brains, by de-thinking, by programming themselves with a totally a-rational mindlessness.

      And the thing is, it wouldn’t be an insult, strictly speaking; it would merely be a visualisation of what Islam itself teaches!

      Here’s something very telling from an article by one Tawfik Hamid, who strikes me as being perilously close to being a closet apostate.

      Not sure if the link will still work – it’s for an article that appeared in Jerusalem Post in 2008, though it had previously been published elsewhere.

      http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/Article.aspx?id=89135

      “The Development of a Jihadist’s Mind”.

      (That, in itself, is an ironical title – DDA).

      Anyway, here’s the excerpt, where Tawfik is talking about how he got involved with Jamaah Islamiyah – a jihad/ sharia-pushing Real Islam revivalist outfit – when at University studying medicine.

      Just these two paragraphs are very, very telling, and they fit perfectly with what this bloke in Malaysia was going on about.

      “During my first year of medical school, a Jamaah member named Muchtar Muchtar invited me to join the organization.
      “Muchtar was in his fourth year, and Jamaah had given him the title amir (prince or caliph) – a designation taken from early Islamic writings that is associated with the Islamic caliphate or amir almomenin (prince of the believers). I accepted his invitation, and we walked together to Jamaah’s mosque for noon prayers.

      “On the way there Muchtar emphasized the central importance in Islam of the concept of al-fikr kufr, the idea that the very act of thinking (fikr) makes one become an infidel (kufr). (In Arabic both words are derived from the same three root letters but have different meanings.)

      “He told me, “Your brain is just like a donkey [a symbol of inferiority in the Arab culture] that can get you only to the palace door of the king [Allah]. To enter the palace once you have reached the door, you should leave the donkey [your inferior mind] outside.”

      “By this parable, Muchtar meant that a truly dedicated Muslim no longer thinks but automatically obeys the teachings of Islam.” END QUOTE.

      Let’s just repeat that. First, the proverb “al-fikr kufr” – roughly put, “thinking is disbelief”.

      Second, the metaphor used by the jihadi revivalist –

      “Your brain is just like a donkey [a symbol of inferiority in the Arab culture] that can get you only to the palace door of the king [Allah]. To enter the palace once you have reached the door, you should leave the donkey [your inferior mind] outside.”

      And third, the reflection upon that:

      “..a truly dedicated Muslim no longer thinks but automatically obeys the teachings of Islam.”

      They undergo a mind-wipe or brain-wipe; they try at all costs to STOP THINKING; they become an automaton, a zombie running the ‘program’ which is the Sunnah; a mindless clone of warlord Mohammed.

  9. Venkat das says

    Aug 7, 2015 at 2:34 pm

    Muslims are responsible for the destruction of all the historical monuments and record of early human history everywhere in the world , they are alienating every one from the roots , this was started off by Mohammed himself who was a bandit who cunningly looted the Shiva temple in mecca for money which at that time period was stored in temples and destroyed the 360 idols that were there of what was called Shiva ganas , who else other than Hindus worship idols in the world .

  10. Beth says

    Aug 7, 2015 at 2:39 pm

    In the Bible:

    1Jo 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Try them – with the Scriptures – 2Cr 4:6 and Isa 8:20

    Only an unjust god would tell you not to question the facts. And so do his followers. Righteousness never has to hide. Wisdom is able to answer any question. But murderers, rapists, liars and thieves always hide their intentions because to be exposed – would destroy them. And they know this.

    • Raja says

      Aug 8, 2015 at 6:25 am

      Beth,

      I have seen so many valuable comments but yours is a cut above the rest. It touches the point in question with just one biblical verse.

      The New American Standard Bible quote is using the word test. Here is the quote:

      1 John 4:1
      Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

      This proves that God is very reasonable beside being all just.

      Jesus said many thieves would come after him.What more authority you need to follow Jesus than some thug and highly immoral beast.
      Some biblical quotes:

      Matthew 24:11
      Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many.

      Matthew 24:24
      For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.

      Mark 13:22
      for false Christs and false prophets will arise, and will show signs and wonders, in order to lead astray, if possible, the elect.

  11. Rezali Mehil says

    Aug 7, 2015 at 5:18 pm

    Salaam,

    What I do know is that faith is a process of maturing from birth.

    You all know that the foetus (all fetuses are muslim…it is the parents who pollute)…clench their fists…kick the mother’s belly imploring that he/she will do Allah’s will even before born. Asking for permission to be born and praying for months in the foetal position …Allah SWT …Allah SWT.

    After birth the mother/father steps in and * shouts* Bismillah into the ear of the baby each night…blessings from the parents and Allah SWT …what could be better.

    As the child takes hold of Islamic reason and logic….the 5 times a day of swaying is strengthening your belief to become an Abdullah (slave of Allah SWT).

    As the child’s learning takes shape…the mother’s praises, the imam praises come into being ..”Mashalla…mashallah…he/she is just about 6 years old and already knows the Koran by heart.

    And this lovely routine and practice embodies entitlement …abdullah…abdullah.

    Why to drag crap like logic and reason into the one-to-one bondage of master-slave…that matching energy …that is a gift given by Allah -tala.

    The Western child has all the privileges and money …yet is lost more than ever. The Christian mother in the West has nothing to say into her boy’s ear …she is too busy being laid by the Sunday Father …who also has an eye out for the growing child.

    Well …there you go …faith is the most important …

    More Later …

    Rezali

    • Angemon says

      Aug 7, 2015 at 6:04 pm

      Rezali, that’s got to be the cruelest thing you could do to a child – teach them to hate, as if you’re programming an automaton for killing. That you speak gleefully of it as if it is a desirable trait speaks volumes of you, and it’s a reminder of what we’re fighting against.

      Also, are you still crapping your pants every time you see your husband goggling a first-grader? Talak, talak, talak, and that’s the end of Rezali – out with the old, in with the new, literally…

      • Raja says

        Aug 8, 2015 at 6:35 am

        Angemon,

        Very good comment. The radical element is taught to hate anything and everything under the sun.Democracy, cross/ Christianity, other world religious systems are odious (extremely hateful). How can these elements stand the coming judgement of Isa / Jesus as they are taught.

        They are so sick that their entire “mother board” is corrupted. They cannot see any contradiction even if is in black and white.

        • Jay Boo says

          Aug 8, 2015 at 10:03 pm

          Speaking of bondage in your earlier comment, isn’t it about time for your daily five times a day Shia self-flagellation worship session.

        • Jay Boo says

          Aug 8, 2015 at 10:04 pm

          The bondage comment was meant for Rezali

    • cs says

      Aug 7, 2015 at 6:41 pm

      What is your scientific base to proof that any fetus is Muslim? That is pure imposition of crap on our reality, Islam keeps vomiting crap on the world, just making things worst.
      I tell you. Islam will probably end in 15 years, enjoy it while you can.

    • Westman says

      Aug 7, 2015 at 7:15 pm

      As the great Carl Sagan said, we can only read so much in a lifetime so what we choose to read is the most important choice.

      Making a child memorize the inconsistent, supremist, violent, and logically false Quran by age 5 has already limited his ability to think and stolen his, and his community’s, potential future. You should be proud, Rezali.

    • Musthava Ram Ram says

      Aug 7, 2015 at 8:08 pm

      Paki variety moslims wife, smiling: “Dear, do you think you’re a pedophile?”

      Paki variety moslims husband, frowning: “That’s a big word for a seven year-old like you to use”.

      • Raja says

        Aug 8, 2015 at 6:43 am

        Sad but true. They have so principles/standards just evil codes.

    • Beth says

      Aug 8, 2015 at 4:13 pm

      Addressed to Rezali

      “the Western child” …as you say Rezali…

      has been exposed (like it or not) to the teachings of…

      Do not lie
      Do not steal
      Do not cheat
      Do no murder
      Do not covet

      Five very simple rules that truly does bring Peace to the nations that honour those teachings – a very simple code of ethics that bring real Peace for all – a code of morales that no Islamic land would know anything about – thus, forfeiting all of the gains that come from those laws that bring Peace.

      Mal 3:10 Bring ye all the tithes (not filthy money, but rather, wisdom) into the storehouse, that there may be meat (a higher understanding) in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

      So much for preaching murder, rape and theft (of those who refuse to believe the same as you do)

  12. mortimer says

    Aug 7, 2015 at 5:25 pm

    TAQLID – Blind Following in Islamic Dogma and Refusal of Critical Thought:

    -Taqlid is: a complete disregard for the role of human intellect in matters of religion)

    -Taqlid (blind imitation or blind adherence) is based on an absence of intellectual activity on the part of the believer.

    -Taqlid is a doctrine in Islamic theology referring to the acceptance of a religious ruling in matters of worship and personal affairs from someone regarded as a higher religious authority (e.g. an ‘ālim) without necessarily asking for the technical proof.

    Quotes about TAQLID from Irshaadul-Mulook under the heading, ‘Obedience to the Shaikh’:

    “He (Mureed=a learner) should remain in submission and with respect and dignity to his expert Shaikh just as a mayyit (dead body) is in the hands of the one who gives it ghusl.”

    “Annihilate all your wishes, desires and intentions. Submit yourself to your Shaikh. Do not raise the slightest objection against the taleem (teachings) of your Shaikh.”

    CLOSED-MINDEDNESS IS NORMATIVE ISLAM:

    -Umar ibn al-‘Aziz said, ‘Never give one whose heart is DEVIANT (heretical) access to your two ears, for surely you never know what may find fixity in you.’”

    • Westman says

      Aug 8, 2015 at 3:21 am

      Zombies are real? The Walking Dead are among us….

  13. abad says

    Aug 7, 2015 at 8:34 pm

    I must give his Mufti credit for being honest about Islam being anti-reason, anti-intellect.

    However.

    He must convince the American Ivory Tower academics who think Islam made all these great scientific discoveries.

    Good luck with that, Mufti.

    LOL

  14. No Fear says

    Aug 8, 2015 at 1:04 am

    The mufti and his gangster boss Mohammed were simply social engineers.
    Good breeding practices produces societies that proliferate and dominate.

    That is all good but prolific breeding in itself does not produce novelty of ideas especially when the people believe such nonsense as “the laws of physics obey Allah”. Only when people can question the facts and revise theories can novelty of ideas occur.

    That is why Islam is stuck in the 7th cntury. A brainless non-questioning society is controllable by men like this mufti.

  15. AnnaS says

    Aug 8, 2015 at 3:35 am

    We would never have guessed !

  16. John Magne Trane says

    Aug 8, 2015 at 3:20 pm

    If Muhammad doesn’t want the Mountain, let the Mountain beware of Muhammad…
    http://media.oglaf.com/comic/acrophobia.jpg

  17. Tom says

    Aug 9, 2015 at 2:49 pm

    A God who commands his followers to turn their backs on his own creation, the universe, earth, all the materials, fire, water, air, living creature etc. can’t be the real God. Only the opposition of God would do that.

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