Ancient Egypt believed its religion, philosophy, knowledge of humans and culture were the universal standard and measure of truth. Now it is just a passed civilisation that no longer exists, or whose intellectual worldview has any influence (except of course, in Mummy movies). The most prominent civilisation at the moment is the Western civilisation, which holds beliefs, philosophies, knowledge of humans and culture, which it considers the universal standard and measure of truth. The difference between the colonialised Muslim, and the intellectually authentic Muslim, can be seen in their approach to studying Western studies. While the intellectually authentic Muslim studies Mathematics and the physical sciences to adopt them, the colonialised Muslim goes further and adopts the studies known as the humanities, which describe all Western studies of humans, based upon Western philosophic worldview. These include its viewpoint to psychology, sociology, history, political philosophy, gender studies and general philosophy. These studies are not based upon physical evidence of natural law, but use understandings tainted with assumptions, biases, speculations and hypotheses which assume that some kind of Individualism is the basis for looking at humans. During the Cold War, Communist countries taught humanities based upon their viewpoint to humans, which as historians can now agree, skewed their results. However Colonialised Muslims (as is most Westerners) are unable to study their own thinking, from a perspective of detachment. The intellectually authentic Muslim may also study Western humanities alongside the Colonialised Muslim, but the difference between the two, is like two people studying Egyptology. One Egyptologist studies Ancient Egypt for the sake of understanding its flaws, achievements, beliefs and quaint customs, while the other one studies Ancient Egyptian knowledge to adopt it into his own worldview!! Which one of these is the absurd one? The Quran commands Muslims to stand as witnesses to the eternal truth, that has come down to mankind since its very beginning, witnessing to each civilisation, and calling them to the truth. Western civilisation, is just one of many civilisations Muslims have encountered, and like all the rest, it believed themselves to be the ultimate arbiters and cognisance of truth, yet it too, like all the rest, will be consigned to history eventually, and their beliefs and dogmas about individualism will turn into myths, and their culture will turn into quaint tales of a forgotten society. The difference then between the Colonialised Muslim, and the intellectually authentic Muslim is, one regards the West as its teacher, but the other, regards the West as merely another lesson, and warning. wp.me/p1yZme-10T
Posted on: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 02:03:54 +0000
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