Alhamdullilah. I am so grateful that I took Philosophy of Religion class. Listening to students espouse secular humanism made me realize how fortunate I am to be a Muslim. I feel like issues of religion versus secularism, religion versus state, these are not applicable to my idelogical framework because the Quran provides a textual basis for truth that is accessible to anyone who wants to read it. A system is already in place. There are things that need work within that system, but God has created the conceptual framework. It gets translated, but the understanding of that time is a continual process that keeps God at the center of discourse. I love the idea that God is the center of discourse. In my class, for the strangest reason, people almost never talked about GOD. It was a PHILOSOPHY of RELIGION class, and religion was talked about mostly in the monotheistic tradition, yet still, people hardly felt a stake in trying to defend why God exists. The arguments for the existence of God were weak, insubstantial and I am sure no one converted. However, what was more interesting than the arguments themselves was peoples reactions to those arguments. Alhamdullilah, I feel like an argument for God can be accessible and real to anyone who is willing to make it, but I don't think that it can be deduced, or rationally explained. I grateful for the attempts, nevertheless. And most of all, I am grateful that I am Muslim. THat God exists. That God has 99 attributes. That I am not a rational animal. I am created by God for a specifc purpose, with meaning. That I understand hardship, and pain and struggle the same way I understand happiness, ectasy, etc. All of it is from God. ALHAMDULLILAH.
Today I was called a intellectual whore. I was told that all i want to do is intellectually screw people because what I like most about people are their ideas, experiences and thoughts. I have shown little regard for emotions, and sentimentality and for the UMPTH time this year, I find myself saddened by the loss of a friend. Here's his top 10 of most (im)memorable quotes: 1. "You're like Sex in the City, minus the sex." [Mindless stupidity is the implication] 2. "I am a warm person. You're not" 3. [paraphrase] I am a very sensitive person. I can't have you constantly hurting my feelings. 4. "I don't respect you" 5. "I am a generous person" 6. "We can't be friends, Sadia." 7. "You are emotionally crippled" 8. "What you need is a wall." 9. "I don't mean to hurt you." 10. "You're an intellectual whore." And the best question of today, and of the week perhaps, is when ...
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