Faraz Rabbani – Weekly Q&A Why Is Philosophy Considered Haram
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The speaker discusses the importance of philosophy as a range of disciplines and how it is a human quest for truth and understanding. They stress that guidance is required before reading random speculations about the truth. The speaker also mentions a book called The Story of Faith by Nadeem Jisr, which is a valuable work.
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There's a question, why is philosophy haram? Philosophy
is not unconditionally haram. One has to understand
what are we talking about. Right?
What the in philosophy
is a range of disciplines,
right?
What the ulama
discouraged people from studying
is
the
unguided
speculations
of
those
who speculated
about truth without guidance.
Right?
The unguided
speculations
of those who spoke about
truth
without
the bedrock of guidance.
Right? Because philosophy
is
a in its pure sense is the human
quest
for
truth and meaning.
Now we have guidance. We have guidance.
Absolute truth
in revelation.
So the believer's duty is before one goes
to random speculations about the truth
and how to live it,
that one learn revelation.
How? By seeking
what is called beneficial knowledge.
To have clarity about our beliefs,
our guidance, our conduct, our values,
and how to live as an upright believer
who seeks good in his relationship with God
and seeks good in his relationship with Allah's
creation and who does good in life.
Then in that, there are different aspects of
the philosophical tradition that the ulama of theology
brought into
the Islamic tradition
as being
useful means
of understanding
and explaining
the truth and how to live it.
But that is found within the Islamic tradition.
One should be well grounded in that before
one needs to look here and there.
One of our dear teachers here at Seekers
asked about the issue of studying some of
the works of classical philosophy to understand,
and he's an he's a he's a scholar
himself now. This
and,
one of the very respected scholars of our
time said that the ulama
looked into philosophy
and
took
on the basis of
principles and values what is needed
by
the thinking
Muslim
in their
quest for truth and quest for understanding meaning.
And there's a beautiful book related to this
by a distinguished
Lebanese scholar of the 20th century
that's actually translated into English.
It's called
The Story of Faith
by
Nadeem Jisr by Sheikh Nadeem Jisr. And I
believe it's available through various online booksellers and
stuff. The Story of Faith by Nadeem Jisr.
And it's a valuable work.