Knowledge must be de-secularized if religious Truth is to be allowed to play the role which only Truth can play. That role is one of restoring human society to the beliefs and values of authentic religion which alone can anchor mankind in a life of peace, happiness, fulfillment and success. In order for knowledge to be desecularized we need to demonstrate the existence in this world of knowledge that has come Ansari Memorial Series Internet Edition imranhosein.org 241 from al-Ghaib, i.e., an unseen world and a source which thus transcends normal experience. Only when knowledge has been desecularized can the modern mind apply itself seriously to restoring the life of the sacred. The late outstanding Islamic scholar, Ismail Faruqi who (like Saudi Arabia’s King Faisal, Pakistan’s President Ziaul Haq, Panama’s President Omar Torrejo, Ecuador’s Jamie Roldos, Chile’s Salvador Allende, etc.) fell to an act of terrorism long before those terrorists launched their own so-called ‘war on terror’, attempted to desecularize knowledge. Unfortunately he coined the term ‘Islamization of Knowledge’ and in doing so the essential goal of desecularizing knowledge was rendered obscure to those who inherited his noble mission in the cause of Truth. A serious study on the phenomenon of dreams by an erudite Muslim psychologist can make a significant contribution towards de-secularizing knowledge and redirecting thought to the recognition of the primacy of the sacred, and to the understanding of the essential harmony in the relationship between ‘material’ form and ‘spiritual’ substance in the external universe and the human world. Further Islamic scholarship of the quality and caliber of Dr. Muhammad Iqbal is required for undertaking a study on the metaphysics of the true dream.
Posted on: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:06:50 +0000
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