Faraz Rabbani – Weekly Q&A Why Is Philosophy Considered Haram

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