Question: Dear Abdassamad Clarke, what is meant by Heidegger’s thesis “science does not think“? Since I could not conceivably do justice to Heidegger’s thinking on this and I would dislike merely to be a ‘Heideggerian’ who turns Heidegger’s open-ended reflections into a new doctrine, perhaps you would permit me to tackle this from another direction. …
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The Nihilism of our age and Wahhabism – by Abdassamad Clarke
Originally presented to then Home Secretary Charles Clarke on his visit to the Ihsan Mosque in Norwich. To see things clearly, with focus and in perspective one needs two eyes. Then things appear in three dimensions. We have been looking at the matter of terrorism with one eye. That is why our actions are ineffective. …
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The Second Inevitable
“Two things in life are inevitable: death and taxes.” Benjamin Franklin The current financial crisis is a global one. Distinctions of East and West, North and South are becoming increasingly irrelevant. As the world hurtles towards what a recent NASA sponsored report flagged as an irreversible collapse whose basis is: “the stretching of resources due …
‘Uthman ibn ‘Affan, may Allah be pleased with him
‘Uthman ibn ‘Affan Any critical comments in the following about shi‘ism are certainly not intended as license for the increasingly barbaric atrocities committed against ordinary shi‘as across the so-called Muslim world by sectarians whose claim to ‘sunnism’ is tenuous at best. That insurgent ‘sunnism’ should justify its existence by attacks on people whose only sin …
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Introduction by Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi to the ‘Meaning of Man’ by Sidi ‘Ali al-Jamal
This is the most important book written by man. Until this edition only one copy of the book was in existence. For two hundred years the author’s copy was kept at the place where he taught and during that time, regularly, every Thursday night, a small group of the intellectual elite of the city of …
The Muslims are imperfect but Islam is perfect: discuss!
People say: Don’t look at the Muslims because they are imperfect but look at Islam because it is a perfect system. If we accept this, we will merely have another ‘ism’, another type of idealism whose inevitable result is nihilism. Rather, Islam is a means giving a person direct unequivocal access to his Lord, speaking …
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2. The Rise of Science
Author: Abdassamad Clarke Publication date: 9/2/2013 Assalamu alaykum. Welcome to the Civilisation and Society Programme of the MFAS. This is the second of 12 sessions which make up the Technique and Science module. The lecture will last approximately 40 minutes during which time you should make a written note of any questions that may occur to you …
1. Introduction to Technique and Science
Author: Abdassamad Clarke Publication date: 2/2/2013 Assalamu alaykum. Welcome to the Civilisation and Society Programme of the MFAS. This is the first of 12 sessions which make up the Technique and Science module. The lecture will last approximately 50 minutes during which time you should make a written note of any questions that may occur …
Discourses of the Secular
Thinking about language and law in the modern age Abdalhakim Andersson – Director of Studies MFAS The purpose of the following lecture – entitled Discourses of the Secular – is not to cover the full spectrum of secular ideas and realities in the modern age. Nor is it to make pronouncements about the virtues or …
The Translation of Identity
New Approaches to European Thinking through Arabic Abdassamad Clarke – Dean MFAS The identity of the Muslim and of the Ummah could not be clearer. Indeed, the issue before us is in some sense behind us: the translation of that identity into a British, European and Western setting. The fact of our meeting and the …