Hasan Ali – Can I Study Philosophy & Psychology

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			personal question, from the perspective of masters in educational psychology. Was it complimenting
you with your articles or what was that condition?
		

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			going to the psychology courses these days,
		

			because I want to be able to give you advice on that sort of modern day psychology and Western
psychology doesn't really have any, any space for religion in it.
		

			Let alone Islam doesn't have any space for religion, I was, I'd already finished my Allium course,
before I went to study psychology. So if they were saying things that were not to do with religion,
or not even engaging it, and saying, you know, the human has his own psyche, the human thinks
himself is independent from anything outside, all these things are there, but I'm not going to look
at it like that, I'm gonna stood up got my faith. So any student has going towards psychology, or
philosophy, or any of these sciences is to be careful. Your Eman needs to be strong before you go
down that pathway. Because you can easily have your iman undone isn't easily going for a degree and
		

			then you start to question about your faith. Because that's what they'll do. The philosophy of the
Western civilization and psychology has departments where they make you question your own beliefs
and make you question your subconscious mind. And we know there are limitations to your questioning.
And we wouldn't put those questions. But Allah Allah has messengers, Allah's Mostoles that one of
the way shaytan will work is that he will carry on saying, you know, who's the creator of this, who
create this and eventually a person then, you know, shaytan takes a person to the question of Herman
Haleakala. So who created Allah, right? So it's a cheatin trap, to trap with the data that will take
		

			you down that pathway. Now, if you're not ready for it, and you're going for a study that is going
to, quote, make you question like that, you have to be careful. So either your faith is very strong,
or you have Muslim teachers or Muslim individuals around you, where you can find your grounding in
the religion with the question that comes to your mind. You can ask Imams and Muslims around you,
and they will reassure you of your faith, then Alhamdulillah. Otherwise, you need to be slightly
careful of going into this thing into this whole science. So for me, it wasn't it wasn't a question
because I had studied the dean for many years, that my teachers, so these questions wouldn't really
		

			bother me. And I wouldn't even entertain them. But for somebody else it might be might be the thing
right over the question. So there are people that are youngsters who are looking for good, you know,
good jobs, and so on in these in these departments, which is fine. But even when you're working, we
have to understand that we may be limited to what we can say to someone in counseling, let's say
your your counselor now is giving you some kind of counseling to someone or you're a child
psychologist
		

			in that in that field, you can't use God and you can't use Allah. You can't use faith to try and
talk to but if you've got the right, you know, Eman, you can sort of say the same things without
mentioning those you know, without mentioning Allah and without mentioning God, you can do that. But
it still takes your you know, you still need your knowledge in Islam to be very, very strong. So
that you know how to direct you know, direct yourself