34 new videos on the _Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam_ are on the way! They begin in September 2022.

@jacobsoto7228

2 жыл бұрын

I look forward to it

@sumeraarshad377

2 жыл бұрын

Your interpretations are great. Keep it up

@TeacherOfPhilosophy

2 жыл бұрын

(Actually, they've already started on the Rumble channel.)

@raahymkhan1265

Жыл бұрын

Quite a remarkable endeavour. I've just started reading it, the book is quite hard to read I hope ur vedios help me find the books meaning

One of the best philosophy channels on KZread!

Sir Iqbal's poetry is even more philosophical.Highly recommended

I continue to appreciate your "video mini-lecture." Thank you.

A wonderful break down of a complex book. Thankyou for the insight

thank you for reviewing the book of Great Allama Iqbal. much appreciate it

"Books are good." Great statement to close this amazing intro.. 🤓 Interesting to learn the influence of William James on Allama Iqbal..

@TeacherOfPhilosophy

3 жыл бұрын

Bahote shukria.

very nice selection and attempt to shed light on this book

It's great 👍

You're a great man for your knowledge

Thank you! I liked your video😊

Stupendous work. I must say understanding and interpreting Iqbal's philosophical work has been one of the greatest challenge of modern islamic scholars. Islam A Challenge to Religion by G A Parwez is one such example. But overall this area is seldom broached by most intellectual minds on the account of aggrieving the traditional mindset.

@aquibrashid7805

4 жыл бұрын

Well said., Sulaiman.

@tausif3k

4 жыл бұрын

Did Iqbal had a Quranic approach to Islam as said by G A Parwez? Is there any work from Mr Parwez about that?

@Avicerox

2 жыл бұрын

@@tausif3k No

BEAUTIFUL MASHALLAH

Very good Summarisation

I am reading Iqbal and finding his epistemology a bit challenging. Would have loved some color and perspective from you, but understand that you were making an introduction video. As a side note, I like your videos so keep up the good work!

@TeacherOfPhilosophy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I am Maliki but I read about his views on the compatibility of evolution by the Quran, actually it makes more sense than the original tafasir, they just didnt know it

Iqbal is our pride

@TeacherOfPhilosophy

2 жыл бұрын

_Pakistan zindabad!_

Great introduction. Thanks! Gota read it few more times to get a grip (hopefully) of Iqbal's mysticism. I am struggling to understand how it relates to the practised islamic mysticism or mysticism in general. Your insight on this will be helpful.

@TeacherOfPhilosophy

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, but any insight on that would probably require someone who knows Iqbal better than I do!

@aquibrashid7805

4 жыл бұрын

To the extent I have read and understood Iqbal, I think, he says that if mysticism descends into passivity, it is quite bad and hence ought to eschewed. Primarily he is not against the mystical dimension of Islam, but to him, once it abandons the active involvement with the issues and problems faced by people on an individual and collective level, for example the political injustices etc, it ceases to be something worth emulating . Perhaps it is for this reason he lashes against Hafiz and his ilk. If Iqbal were alive today, he would certainly condemn the guise in which mysticism is being generally practised.

@Habib2004

4 жыл бұрын

@@aquibrashid7805 Thank you!. This is how I think of Iqbal's (ra) take on Mysticism. However, if you talk to those who practice sufism (the genuine ones), or are inclined toward sufism, you get the vibe that they are not into "active involvement with the issues and problems faced by people on an individual and collective level". They are like "natural satellites" running around a self-proclaimed/presumed "star" without giving it a conscious thought as to why are they doing this. Achieving states, seeing miracles, and predicting future (for someone) seems to be the purpose of their hours and hours of waza'if and azkaar.

@sheshahayat5117

4 жыл бұрын

Habib have you read Iqbal ? Iqbal talks about Islam not Sufism , Tai ray Qura’an ko seenay say lagaya hum nay, Tairay Kaaba ko jabeeno say sejaya hum nay , Phir bhi hum say gila,,,,,,,, THIS IS FUNDAMENTAL OF ISLAM AND QURAAN while Sufism is only about a fraction of Islam excluding fundamentals of Islam !

@aquibrashid7805

4 жыл бұрын

@@Habib2004 . Yes. You are absolutely right. Given the imagery employed, historical figures chosen, by Iqbal in his poetry, it becomes clear that he would, by all means, froth with anger against this strain of mysticism that is exclusively devoted to the inward dimension of a person's personality. Severed from the Iqbalian vantage point, we can come up with a multitude of approaches, on the basis of which the currently genuine (even if apolitical) mysticism could be absolved as well as put in dock, but here as we talk about the issue in light of Iqbal, so let me not swerve away from the actual issue.

Hello, are you a teacher at University of Nottingham?

@TeacherOfPhilosophy

2 жыл бұрын

Teacher at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Amazing discussion

@TeacherOfPhilosophy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! (I've been recording a long series of videos going through the _Reconstruction_ in more detail. Should be out on KZread and Rumble sometime . . . oh, I don't know . . . probably late this year.)

@quietenergy

2 жыл бұрын

@@TeacherOfPhilosophy i am from India so this is helpful. I have been trying to understand who were the greatest islamic philosophers to respond to Hegel. I guess Iqbal is up there.

@TeacherOfPhilosophy

2 жыл бұрын

Acha! He probably is, although my series won't get into much of that directly.

Ibn Arabi is another mystic you should read

i think, the main problem of common muslims and including most of their Quranic scholars, are too much "legalistic," (fiqh oriented), as if ayatollah (god guidance) is only one: al Quran (holy scripture) and its derivatives (hadist, ijma, qiyas, etc). factually, God him self, in very first revelation to Muhammad, is not asking Muhammad to study (iqra) the holy Quran (cos the kitab doesn't exist at that day), instead He command Muhammad to study (iqra) other ayatullah, we called as ayat Kauniyah (universe and all of His Creations in it). That why in serious and encyclopedic Islamic traditional school, we always taught that beside al Quran, there is another god guidance (ayatullah) called ayat kauniyah (the universe and all god creation in it). and for qur'anic scholars, we also know --from al Quran it self, there are two others god guidance (ayatullah), that we as muslims should seek for God Guidances: called as ayat insaniyah (human being) and ayat tarikhiyyah (human history). if common muslims and it scholars, uses all 4 God Guidance in balanced ways, we will not always fall into legalistic point of view when we talking or examining Islam point of view about woman/feminism, politics, evolution, LGBTQ issues, democracy, secularism, separation between religion and state, on terrorism, etc. for me, if sociology, political science, statistics, history on the rise and fall of civilizations/countries (as interpreters of ayat kauniyah and ayat tarikhiyyah) comes to the conclusion that democracy with separation between religion and state, is the best political system in the world for advancement human civilizations, then all Muslims should choose democracy with separation between religion and state, as preferable political system to practice in all Muslims majority countries. also if expert on biology, doctors, psychiatry, etc (as interpreter of ayat kauniyah and ayat insaniyah) , said that beside man and woman (as gender), we also has intersex, hemaprodyte, woman with more testosterones, man with more X chromosome, etc, then all Muslims should choose to agree that god him self gave us guidance / ayat that beside man and woman as gender, there also another genders/pronouns that we should cherish, protect, and respect (cos if we don't respect others God Creations, are similarly with we don't respect our God as their Creator). if we stubborn, only picks, one ayatullah, we called al Quran (holy scripture/ayat Qauliyah), as the one and only god guidance to follow, then muslims and it scholars, will always fall upon into legalistic point of view (fiqh oriented) when we examining what is islamic point view on everything under the sky. wahabbiyah, isis, al Qaida, etc are trapped in this narrow point of view about Islam and its believe. of course, for responsible and encyclopedic islamic teaching, all those narrow point views on Islam are wrong (at least incomplete), misguided, and disrespecting God. umar bin khattab, as on of few sahabah (closed friend of Prophet), several times choose to disregarding some textual issues stated clearly in al Quran, and pick other decision after he choose as Muhammad successor, as leader (khalifah/amir), if there are more fairer and more justice way (socially) on making decision as Amir/Leader, rather than choose from what already state very clear in al Quran. he always choose more fairer and more justice decisions, even others sahabah question his decision. and as we know it, umar bin khattab is one of several sahabah (closed friend of Prophet) that guaranteed (informed) by the Prophet that he is going to heaven. his way of leadership decision, was a hard evidence that the closest friend to Muhammad, also not only consider holy scripture (ayat Qauliyah), but also social aspect, fairness, and justice (ayat kauniyah), when he making decision as a leader. nobody in umar bin khattab time, dare to called umar bin khattab as heretic/bid'ah, kuffar, or infidel. but in modern era, several of loud muslims, loud muslim scholars, and most of jihadist will immediately call us heretic/bid'ah, kuffar, or infidel if we also uses 3 other God Guidance's beside ayat Qauliyah, when we speak, analyze, examining islamic point of view on everything under the sun. how strange is it, if we following completes God Guidance's, then be called as infidel, kuffar, or bid'ah. legalistic approach (fiqh oriented) on Islam has bad impact on advancement of Islamic civilization, and has backward effect on development of its peoples: the Muslims. but yes, in Islamic jurisprudence (ushul fiqh), we also has similar concept with Umar way, but unfortunately has more narrowed approach and clearly far from sufficient to be implemented in modern era, we call them: maslahah mursalah (public good principle) and maqashid syariah (ratio legal over legal specific). if muslims also incorporate social science, biology, technology, history, political science, psychology, etc (as part of rightful interpreter all of God Guidancs/ayatullah), many problem we faced today in many part of Muslim countries, will be addressed in responsible way. Muhammad him self, in his own word (Hadits Bukhari Collection no 6015), said: muslims should follow person with specific expertise on handling matter, so let political scientist handle political matter, health matter should handle by doctors, etc. do not let everything under authority of quranic expert. in general, muslim should treat expert on other ayatullah (scientist as rightful interpreter whole universe and all of His Creations in it, as rightful interpreter human being behavior and it history) equal to expert on holy scripture (al quran). Furthermore, on all wide range of social issues, every new founding/understanding as result from responsible research by scientist, should supersede (abrogate) any old interpretation from holy scripture, cos all of new founding/understanding as result from responsible research by scientist, are also rightful interpreter of God Guidance (ayatullah). falling to do so, should be interpreted as a disqualified argument/opinion. Many argument/opinion base on fiqh (islamic legal specific), kalam (theology) and falsafah (philosophy), factually in most areas are quite obsolete for addressing social, economic, and political problem in modern era, cos most of them are derived only from ayat Qauliyah (Quranic centric), which is an incomplete way to sorting our problem in modern era. Most of old argument/opinion already supersede/abrogated by new founding/understanding as result from responsible research by scientist. Muslims should back to the complete of God Guidance in balance way on solving problem in Muslims world, not only using holy scripture as final say. and stop kuffar/infidel calling game, cos that game from a complete, genuine, and responsible interpretation of 4 God Guidances, is simply un islamic. and, as an open end conclusion, there is a deeper question: why common muslims and its scholars dare to disregarding 3 other God Guidance's? why muslims and its scholars become legalistic (only focus on 1 ayatullah / 1 God Gudance (ayat Qauliyah) called alquran, as if salvation of a civilization fate can be and must be depend on 1 cause only? as brief answer is: corruption and abuse of power by people in high power, it cronies, and big business that closed to muslim countries rulers at that time. all of them, almost single handedly creates and propagate common muslims and its scholars into disregarding 3 other God Guidance's. peoples in power, it cronies, and big business that closed to muslim countries rulers push and push relentlessly to narrow interpretation on morals and public interest thru perverted interpretation on the holy scripture. even, they dare to appoint unqualified islamic scholar as qadi for them to uses as fatwa producers in favors to their vested interest. since then, islamic civilization goes down spiral into inevitable decline from it's greatness. many fatwa produced in their regime will makes serious, genuine, and responsible islamic scholar scratching their head and shocked. fatwa on mihnah policy, on banning printing technology, banning radio, tv, google, youtube, etc, are among of perverted interpretation on holy scripture. it lead to tradition/repetition/reinforcement on using narrow interpretation islamic law for beating and punishing dissent and discontent on social injustice in islamic society. furthermore, it lead islamic society to become close minded, anti science, and trapped in textual approach tradition on just 1 god guidance called al quran (ayat Qauliyah) only, with narrow and more narrow interpretation. common muslim today and it scholar today are the real victims of bad fatwa born from dark alliance between high power, it cronies, big business that closed to muslim rulers before them. lets wake them up, by spreading the real genuine of God Guidance's and it's rightful interpreters that we called: sciences. amen.

@thoughtyfalcon3991

Жыл бұрын

I would consider your view as close minded as you seem to have no understanding of the epistemology of the Qur'an and how "Ijtihad" or what you called 'interpretation' works. I wish you had enough knowledge on Islamic history and Quran as you have in modern sciences and liberal Ideologies. Everything is acceptable in Islam to a limited level but we cannot just accept the modern Ideologies as the absolute truth without criticism while west itself is cricizing them as reasons for the downfall of the enlightenment. Science is a very limited field in terms of knowledge about the world (read Iqbal's own criticism of sciences to know more about this). Adding a little note here, the use of preferred pronouns as you 'interpreted' is the correct approach is the most wrong approach one could have. It is against science and linguistics. You can't change a language based on pure emotion of yours. This is what a multi faceted knowledge of various sciences brings us to. You have to be bold enough to accept the truth as it is.

We would have appreciated that if you instead of "Indian Sub-Continent" had mentioned Pakistan in his introduction. We deserve our due credit and representation. No grudges against our Indian friends, but it's the same as if someone labeled the Founding Fathers of US as British or European. I hope you improve on your content in the future.

@TeacherOfPhilosophy

4 ай бұрын

Fair enough. I've said it that way a number of times. Hopefully in the more detailed Iqbal series: kzread.info/head/PL0gapVBX3Jr88xKtomibJbM3a6v1sScdg&si=lfC-oSdJoExyvzFm Actually, _mireh pas panch saal Lahore meh. Pakistan zindabad! _

@wasifhussain5408

4 ай бұрын

@@TeacherOfPhilosophy Respect for your work, I am not only watching this whole playlist already but will watch some of your other playlists/content to learn more. You are doing some amazing work. ✨ I will be in pursuit of understanding the "Hegelian" traces in Iqbal's work, as you discreetly pointed out in a video. Lahore will welcome you again with open arms. 💚 Pakistan Zindabad!

HAHA, WISE MENT TALK BECAUSE THAY HAVE SOMETHING , WHILE FOOLISHS TALK BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO SAY SOME THING . YOUR UNDERSTANDING ABOUT THE BOOK OR IQBAL(R.A) IS LIKE A (.) UNDERSTANDING IQBAL NEEDS BLESSING FROM ALLAH (S.W.T)

@shoka2114

3 жыл бұрын

Apna guroor kam karo tumhare alfazo me shaitan ki haseen jhalakti he

But you haven’t interpreted Iqbal correct ,,, Iqbal is the poet/ philosopher who LAID FOUNDATIONS FOR PAKISTAN,,, as Muslims are a nation no matter where they live and Hindus and Musselmaans couldn’t Co-inhabit ; he was so correct as we all can witness after Modi’s power, it is no more a secret only Pakistan knows,,, IQBAL’s MESSAGE IS ABOUT SELF ACTUALISATION AND AWARENESS AND ISLAM ,,,

@tufailahmed7596

2 жыл бұрын

Its your wrong pak studies where this is mentioned . Iqbal didnt even thought about that

@Avicerox

2 жыл бұрын

@@tufailahmed7596 ..what? Iqbal was a member of AIML and literally supported Pakistan's creation, and was one of the first people to talk about an independent Muslim state, have you even read him?

@tufailahmed7596

2 жыл бұрын

@@Avicerox even muslim league was not sure about creation of a seperate state untill 1946 elections ., they were in favour of muslim majority states with confidrstion ... not a divided single state

@Avicerox

2 жыл бұрын

@@tufailahmed7596 Bruh, they decided to advocate for a Muslim state way back in 1940.

@uzairahmed2185

6 ай бұрын

iqbal mentioned this in his address of alahabad 1930. it was infront of thousands of people man. ​@@tufailahmed7596

By laughing, you are making a joke of Allama Iqbal, watch yourself 😀

How rude to mock a great philosopher you believe you know 😠 Silly laughter !

@TeacherOfPhilosophy

4 жыл бұрын

Other than you mocking me, I haven't noticed any mockery around here. (However, "Silly laughter!" is probably a fair criticism of me!)

@citycentregreen

3 жыл бұрын

I think he just made analysis from the best of his understanding. i won't expect much from others. Allama Iqbal (rah) is a sea of knowledge, it is not easy for everyone to understand him.

@shoka2114

3 жыл бұрын

@@TeacherOfPhilosophy some people only see what they want to see