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- 21:46, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: History as the Reference for Acquiring Knowledge According to the Qur'an (hist) [1,237 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'To know right from wrong, the Qur'an directs us to refer to history. It is there that we review the continual conflict between the arrogant and the callers to justice and mercy. ...')
- 21:45, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: The United Nations and the Tribal System (hist) [6,419 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'Let me remind the reader of the United Nations, where there is much talk about justice and equality, but when it comes to acts, it is still dominated by tribalism; it is still st...')
- 21:44, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: The Criterion for Truth and Falsehood (hist) [20,918 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'There is a relation between concepts and behaviors. Concepts and ideas may be put right by learning from the outcomes of behaviors. This may not be clear to many people. Believer...')
- 21:43, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: Can Civilizations Challenge Perdition? (hist) [10,066 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'Arnold Toynbee, at the end of his Study of History, took up the question of whether a civilization could challenge demise. He only hoped that the Christian Civilization could do,...')
- 21:41, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: The End of the Age of Heroes (hist) [2,300 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'Can the Gulf war be good enough for us to realize that the age of heroics is over, the age of imposing solutions from above? Will we put an end to our young men's offering themse...')
- 21:40, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: Utterances and Concepts (hist) [9,640 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'We may try to twist words this way and this way, but God's law will not change at all; we may give a new name to the same old concepts, but misguidance will not be guidance for t...')
- 21:39, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: A Human Between Purity and Murkiness (hist) [9,401 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'A human can come to a state when he/she no longer can benefit from events that happen before his/her very eyes. This is a human, who can rise to have everything bend to his/her w...')
- 21:39, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: CHAPTER SIX: LESSONS FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION (hist) [6,387 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'I am aware that nothing but real events, visible to all those who have eyes to see, will drive home the idea. That is why I present here an example from recent history, as histor...')
- 21:38, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: Muslims and Making Peace (hist) [7,337 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'It is evident that in the present trends of the Muslim world it is quite loathsome that one talks of being the first to offer peace. This is extreme madness for them. Can we deci...')
- 21:37, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: Language Is the Problem (hist) [6,575 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'It is in a very real sense a problem of language. It is also in a very real sense a problem of seeing, hearing and intellect. When the Qur'an says to the Prophet, "Allah can make...')
- 21:36, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: Foucault and History as Reference (hist) [2,692 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'We said something above about Foucault. He concluded that although psychoanalysts have succeeded in unraveling some types of madness, they have not got to the extreme madness, a ...')
- 21:35, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: Changing a Government and Changing Ideas (hist) [3,195 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'So you see I do not crave, as most Muslims do, to see a change in governments. Nor does it thrill me to see a change there, unless it is the end result of changes in our mindset....')
- 21:34, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: Self-analysis (hist) [9,708 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'We need to be flexible in our understanding and in what we think to be true. History teaches us to review and revise, and to do that time and again. Have we not been shown to be ...')
- 21:34, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: To Love the Short-term Benefit and to Disregard the Long-tem Benefit (hist) [7,886 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'We speak of the ignorant young men who alarm the world with explosions here and there, and of the world leaders who precipitate the world into terrible wars. But we have to turn ...')
- 21:33, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: The Law of the Better and More Enduring (hist) [7,225 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'People mix up things, and are baffled. We say that what does more good will stay, and what does harm will disappear: they take it in a narrow sense and so deny a great law. This ...')
- 21:31, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: The Prophets and Mercy (hist) [3,732 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'What happened that blinded us to the mission of prophets? What concealed from our eyes the mercy they taught so that we gave the infliction of pain first place? This is one of th...')
- 21:31, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: Where Are You, Bilal? (hist) [4,826 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'Come Bilal, and tell people about you! Can we learn how you did what you did? Are you a miracle? What got into you as soon as you believed in Islam? What induced you to make that...')
- 21:21, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: A Human and Awareness About History (hist) [8,589 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'Most people grow and get old and die without having awakened that yearning for integration; most die before they have experienced even once the exhilaration of learning the story...')
- 21:18, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: The Qur'an and Attributing Trespasses to God's Will (hist) [6,818 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'The Qur'an scolds those who deny their responsibility for their sins, "Those who give partners to Allah will say: 'If Allah had wished, we should not have given partners to Him, ...')
- 21:17, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: CHAPTER THREE: TWO READINGS OF THE QUR'AN (hist) [5,128 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'CHAPTER THREE: TWO READINGS OF THE QUR'AN What I put forth in this chapter is not quite new. I did put forward a few ideas about it in an early book of mine, Until They Change W...')
- 21:16, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: Guidance and Misguidance (hist) [6,034 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with ' Can we really find in history an inspiration about guidance and misguidance? Guidance is a synonym of 'no compulsion in religion and opinions', and misguidance is a synonym of ...')
- 21:15, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: Dreading Knowledge (hist) [7,137 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with ' Michele Foucault asserted in The System of Discourse that the modern human still dreads knowledge, that he/she has "a very deep scare of the 'logos'" in his words. This fear of ...')
- 21:14, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: The Visible Events and the Events Inside the Minds (hist) [12,545 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'The contents of our minds, whatever we name them, and all the symbols and ideas we hold most dear to us – they determine what happens to us. Now what happens to people can be...')
- 21:13, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: You Are Mere Humans (hist) [5,116 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'Nations and cultural systems are grossly deluded and barred from seeing the truth about themselves. And so they need so many examples about themselves and about others to see how...')
- 21:11, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: Adam's son and the Problem of Doing Mischief (hist) [5,714 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'Even before Adam was created, the angels suspected, as the Qur'an reports, that he would be doing mischief, "Your Lord said to the angels: 'I will create a vicegerent on earth.' ...')
- 21:10, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: About the Birth of the Idea of Follow the Example of Adam's son (hist) [1,040 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'After the publication of my first book, The Way of Adam's son (in the mid-1960s), I was urged to write a sequel to it. That first book was brought out in a kind of hurry, as I fe...')
- 21:09, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: CHAPTER TWO: DREADING KNOWLEDGE (hist) [1,039 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'After the publication of my first book, The Way of Adam's son (in the mid-1960s), I was urged to write a sequel to it. That first book was brought out in a kind of hurry, as I fe...')
- 21:07, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: No Obedience in Defiance of God's Command! (hist) [3,750 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with ' The prophets introduced something quite astonishing: the idea of "No obedience in defiance of God's command!" (an expression said by Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, as repo...')
- 21:07, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: Abraham: The Forefathers Are not the Reference (hist) [7,190 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'It will be useful to remember Abraham, as the progenitor of the universal law: that the forefathers are not the reference; the reference is in how much good or mischief something...')
- 21:06, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: The Physical Conflict and the Intellectual Conflict (hist) [6,647 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'By showing the distinction between physical conflict and intellectual conflict, the prophets liberated humankind. They established a new and liberating state of affairs when they...')
- 21:04, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: Authority, Physical Strength, and Knowledge (hist) [4,081 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'When you see people of knowledge cringing before physical strength, you should know how unreliable, how poor in quality their knowledge is. They hardly know the laws that govern ...')
- 21:03, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: Power and Knowledge Again (hist) [7,616 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'We are now in a better position to ask again if power and knowledge are one and the same thing, or the two sides of one coin. What we see in life is that power, or authority, i...')
- 21:02, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: Specialization and Organizations (hist) [4,597 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'At each level, specialization, starting with the body organs, is vital for human life; and in the same way as the body organs work individually and collectively, experts and spec...')
- 21:00, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: CHAPTER ONE: POWER AND KNOWLEDGE (hist) [4,597 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'At each level, specialization, starting with the body organs, is vital for human life; and in the same way as the body organs work individually and collectively, experts and spec...')
- 20:59, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: Adam's son and the Quibbling Factions (hist) [2,633 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with 'Over the ages we have seen how the Muslim factions, like the followers of other religions, have clashed with each other and killed each other in the name of their understanding o...')
- 20:56, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: INTRODUCTORY: THE LANGUAGE OF WORDS AND THE LANGUAGE OF CONCEPTS (hist) [5,818 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with ' Let us start our discussion with the following short tradition of the Prophet's (peace be upon him): "Follow the example of Adam's son" (an authentic tradition, reported by al-T...')
- 20:54, 15 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son: Foreword (hist) [3,738 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with ' Praise be to God; may peace be upon His chosen prophets, and upon those who call to justice and mercy. I take up here an approach to the main dilemma of human life on this plan...')
- 11:13, 13 October 2010 Be Like Adam's Son (hist) [5,006 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with ''''Praise be to God; may peace be upon His chosen prophets, and upon those who call to justice and mercy. ''' I take up here an approach to the main dilemma of human life on thi...')