The Modern/Post-Modern Knowledge Crises

1. The Modern/Post-Modern Knowledge Crises Lecture: Insaniah Medical Students Course: Islamic Revealed Knowledge Dec 2012 – Mar 2013

2. The crisis is one of people not knowledge • Knowledge is not subject to crisis because it is abstracted from created reality and serves only as a means of descriptive communications that help man to order and direct power for social-environmental-spiritual benefit or harm; • Hence, it is the • Misuse - Abuse • non-use - neglect • Absence - Ignorance of knowledge that creates any crisis related to knowledge. • Misuseis Active Disobedience (Abuse) • DEVIATION FROM MAN’S RESPONSIBILITY as vice-gerent in the dunya --which is to enforce what is good and prevent what is evil ensurebenefit&preventharm) • Forbidden Knowledge : Magick / Sorcery scientific use of -- e.g., blowing on the knots is a scientific method involving beings and forces in nature (including samawat) producing harmful effects. • Non-use: PassiveDisobedience (Neglect) • Why? Knowledge is Present BUT • FAILURE TO ACT responsiblyleads to Ignorance, whichis a form of disobedience. • Why? • because of man’s FAILURE TO ACT responsibly: • i.e., to Teach and/orRead(prophetic-Adamic Path) (education: the gaining of knowledge) semiotics Pentagram (often used Satanic symbol) Al;Dajjhl uses it to mark his dominion Elementary Example of abuse and neglect : this is a star the sun is a star

3. SUB-CATEGORIES: All may be subdivided into Active or Passive Obedient(minority) & Disobedient sub-groups (majority) Believers (all Monotheists: eg. Native Americans) Non-Believers in Allah • Muslim Non-Muslim • Educated • Traditional • Sectarian • Non-Sectarian* • Secular, non-secular • Non-Traditional • Sectarian • Modern Materialist • Secular, non-secular • Non-Educated (Ignorant) *non-sectarian Muslim identifies only with the term ‘Muslim” • Christian • Jew • Pagan • Heathen • Atheist Each category has similar types of knowledge: (e.g., fitrah/instinctive) Andtypes that differ e.g., cultural, religious, social, scientific, rural vs. urban, geographic, etc. One may therefore be an obedient but misguided member of any category depending on knowledge

4. What Is A Knowledge Crisis ? Al’Nur What Causes A Knowledge Crisis ? • Man’s inability to utilize or obtain trustful knowledge: • Too much (man is overwhelmed = confusion) • Too little (man is ignorant) • Poor Education (man is ignorant) • Lack of Access (man is ignorant) • Poverty / Insufficient time • Purposely Misdirected or limited Education (man is ignorant) • BIAS = wrong knowledge • Belief in lies (man is ignorant) • Lack of effective or truthful communication: All is Education • Cultural, Political, Religious, Racial apartheid / illiteracy / poor skills / (man is ignorant) • LACK OF JUST LEADERSHIP • Disobedience • Poor Teaching • Apathy • Injustice • Conspiracy • e.g. Fabian / Ishmai’ili / Catholic Dark Age of Europe • Sectarianism (Asabiyah) • Poverty, Bias, Neglect, Oppression Ignorance Prevails Administration of justice is the only genuineuniting factor for such diversity amana Prophet’s Point of Departure

5. Examples in the Energy IndustryCrisis Causes Ignorance  lack of discernment • NUCLEAR ENERGY • Waste disposal • Cancer • Environmental Destruction • (e.g. Fukushima) • Oil Industry • Gulf of Mexico (BP) • Pollution • Sea Life Dying • Coastal Population Poisoned • MISPLACED TRUST • Wrong information (Pride) • Failure to Disclose (Lies & Pride) • Apathy (laziness, lack of diligence) • Greed (Selfishness = sunnah of Khabil) • Government Collusion • (wickedness in high places) • Non-Accountability • NoHisbah(Negligence) • No Shura All is the result of Disobedience which causes HARM. Harm is the result of any Crisis in Knowledge Mohammad: The Trusted One (Amana)

6. Examples in the Medical IndustryCrisis Causes (No Synthesis of Knowledge) • Misplaced Trust: Authoritarianism • Greed: Doctors & Pharm. etc. Industry /Eugenics • Failure to Disclose (lies & liars) • Bad Science • Apathy • Taqlid(Blind Following) • A type of ignorance • Misplaced Trust • Eugenics = example of • wrong idea (ideal) • Humanism • Social Darwinism • Social Engineering DISOBEDIENCE TO DIVINE LAW • Lobotomy / Pandemic Mental Health Disease • Iatrogenic Disease • Overmedication • Ignorant, lazy or incompetent doctors • Lazy Patients: just want a ‘pill’ mentality • ADHD / Autism / HIV • Immunizations (example of taqlid) • Auto-Immune Disease • Immunizations NWO FASCISM Ummah blindly following Ignorance & Poor or Corrupt leadership (including teachers)  taqlid = a form of apathy

7. The Crisis of Misplaced Trust (Amana) • The West has shown a frightening capacity for irrational behavior and fascination for violence and irrational ideologies. In short, the West, despite its extraordinary achievements in science and technology, intellectual capacity and civilization, is fragile and perishable because its moral and ethical values are designed from reason and logic without the involvement of The Greatest Spiritual Source of truth, God[Divine Revelation]. Hence: The West Cannot be trusted as vice-gerent • Trust is the most basic component of beneficial human relationship. • The most important moral principles that helped Muslims develop and enhance Islamic Science were • trust (al-Amanah), • justice (al-adl), • righteousness (al-birr) and • enjoining virtues and forbidding evil (al-‘amrbilma’rufwa al-nahy ‘an al—munkar). • Prof. CemilAkdogan, ISTAC, IIUM •  Dar Ul’Islamin balance Trust Justice - al-adl Righteousness - al-birr Enforcement - Al’Hisbah Human Relations

8. Dar ul’ Islam Collapse Knowledge Crisis Results Justice (al-adl) Righteousness (al-birr) Enforcement Al’Hisbah Trust Human Relations injustice immorality Tyranny Heart disease environmental destruction Distrust -- Misplaced Trust Mimic the West NWO out of chaos poor human relations (division or sectarianism) Present world condition Left Eyed Beast no spiritual insight, which means no foresight balance of Al’Darjjhl PURE FASCISM Without trust = no certainty Without certainty = no iman = taqlid Without certified iman = misguidance assured no shura

9. Greatest Knowledge Crisis Surah Al Kahf and the Modern Age Sheikh Imran Hosein • Knowledge comes through two sources. • the first source is known as ‘ilm al-Zāhir, and is based on empirical knowledge and rational enquiry. • includes scientific knowledge, • is finite and limited. • the second source is known as • ‘ilm al-Bātininternal intuitive spiritual knowledge that also may be known as religious experience. • It is spiritually communicated to an individual and originates in a dimension of reality which transcends material reality. (samawat) • usually comes in the form of intuitive thought,but it can also be • communicated through true dreams or visions as a gift from Allah Most High. Such knowledge is infinite, inexhaustible, and timeless. Greatest Problems ? • Imbalance • too much religion • too much materialism • no Shura • No one qualified for synthesis ?

10. Two Eyed Caliphate (Ideal) The Greatest Knowledge Crisis is the Lack of Synthesis Right EyeInternal Left EyeExternal ‘ilm al-Batin Samawat Earth TRUST ‘ilm al-Zāhir ‘ilm al-Batin ‘ilm al-Zāhir  Shura: Council of Synthesis (Islam = Balance) Modern Mass Education and SecularismpreventSynthesis through reductionism and sectarianism which cause pre-occupations withBias & Special Interests = Politics

11. SamawatNo Access except to reprobate jinn for deviant shamans (Bomohs) & the superstitious or possessed. Very few righteous gain access to higher realms. Earth The Great Knowledge Crisis  Unable to Synthesize No Internal -SpiritualInsight Blind Heart Diseasethus becomes : One Eyed System of Al’ Dajjāl One Eyed Caliphate ‘ilm al- taqlid ‘ilm al- Taqlid Ignorance & Superstition lacks genuine spiritual Insight Neo-Patriarchy Mimicry of West ‘ilm al-Secualr Humanism ‘ilm al- Humanism Rejects divine law  Council of Special Interests: Ali-Baba ‘Back Door ‘Ministries in League w NWO’s Judo-Christian Occult Alliance, which is Haram  Sins of the Magi • “Oh you who believe (in this Qur’ān) do not take (such) Jews and the Christians as (your) friends or allies who themselves become friends and allies of each other.” (- Qur’ān, al-Māidah, 5:51 • Mohammad's letter to Khosrau II, the Persian Shah: He has sent me for the guidance of all people so that I may warn them all of His wrath and may present the unbelievers with an ultimatum. Embrace Islam so that you may remain safe. And if you refuse to accept Islam You will be responsible for the sins of the Magi.

12. Assignment for Extra-Credit (Distinction) Group Individual • Each team member gives or contributes a one - two minute presentation: • Include History & Reasons for crisis; who profits, who is harmed, current status: • Lobotomy • Iatrogenic Disease • Auto-Immune Disease • Autism – ADHD • Fukushima • HIV Composite Grade Teacher assessment 50% Peer assessment 50% • Essay: 250 - 300 words • In terms used above, describe a knowledge crises; • Take one topic from above or of your own choosing (pending my approval) Composite Grade Teacher assessment 50% Peer assessment 50%

13. Assignments: following Key Words must be utilized