Since I got to know more about Quran

I no longer can read other books

Is it a book of knowledge or ethics?

When reading Quran, we find out it is a straightforward book

The aim of Quran isn't just to memorize it

Rather to ponder it

But pondering is hard and requires work

I haven't finished Al-Fatehah yet

I found out why it is called Al-Fatehah (The Introduction)

And why there isn't a conclusion chapter

What's our problem today?

- Why are we lost? - Who convinced Muslims that Quran comes at the end?

The idea is that who get too deep

Even for our children, we fear extremism

The reality is that Quran amazes you on how it expands the more you research it

What's our duty as parents?

Our problem is that parents are busy with securing livelihood

More than with securing their kid's manners

But the world is dominated by this economic approach

After all, you must be part of this society

Is what's popular your standard or do you have your own standards?

- We have an authentic standard... - Yes, follow it and abandon what's popular

What's popular might lead to bad ends

Why do people fear standing up for what's right?

"But their hearing and vision and hearts availed them not from anything"

They have both rational and sensory knowledge sources

But this didn't help them, why?

"When they were rejecting the signs of Allah"

- Welcome Abu-Nahar - Thank you

The last time we had you, we discussed the topic of liberty

But our topic is different today

I think you're interested in the topic of education in Quran

Or the educational approach encouraged by Quran

But prior to that, we'd like to establish bases for this idea

So, we went back and read your writings

You had an article published in 2022

Which I quoted a part from it

It was a short article

In which you wrote...

"Most Muslims consider Quran as a book for blessing only"

"It is rare to find Muslims that consider Quran as a source of knowledge and building perceptions"

Which led me to a question that we can begin with

Is Quran a book of knowledge or for ethics?

Our perceptions about Quran are endless, Faisal

People have many countless perceptions about Quran

But Quran discussed an important approach which is fabrication

"And if he had forged a false saying concerning Us"

Meaning that we fabricate many things about Quran

Everyone states their perception about Quran

Some say it is a book of peace

Others claim it is a book of war and violence

Others say it is a scientific book or a book of ethics alone

Many perceptions, but don't depend on any of them

Unless what the Quran itself mentions

Otherwise, we'll be fabricating despite the warnings in Quran

That's why if we went back to Quran itself

We'll find that Quran tells us that it is a book for guiding the human knowledge

As Allah says "Ramadan is the month in which the Quran was revealed. Guidance for humanity"

So, it is a book of guidance

But guidance for what?

The other verse clarifies as when Allah said

"We sent Our messengers with clear evidences and sent down with them the Scripture and the balance"

"That the people may maintain [their affairs] in justice"

So, guidance of Quran leads people to enact justice

So, all requirement for justice to be enacted in managing humans’ affairs

Quran has the knowledge to guide people towards them

That's why Allah says "Indeed the Quran shows that way which is perfectly straight"

He didn't say "to a straightway"

Rather to what is perfectly straight

So, it came to guide the realm of thought

How to manage this huge society of humans?

With all their conflicts and views to what is perfectly straight

This is the main aim of the Quran

Away from the logic of Quran let’s look at its doings

And at the reality of Quran itself

When pondering at the scriptures of Quran

You'll find that Quran mentioned all cognitive foundations

That human knowledge should rely on

Whether in politics or economy

In education or societies

Or in management or psychology

Quran has set foundations for all cognitive fields

For example, in the cognitive field

When reading in chapter Al-Nahl

And in Al-Raad and Ibrahim chapters

You'll find the complete Epistemology theory mentioned there

It discusses the sources and limits of knowledge

And the mechanisms and methods of knowledge

It also discusses the obstacles of knowledge

Knowledge doesn't come only from intellectual interaction

It mentions everything regarding knowledge in these chapters

A complete cognitive model, as in the idea of doubt for example

Doubt is an important matter in the process of creating knowledge

Islam didn't forbid doubt

Rather, Islam legitimized doubt

Or that doubt is a means to achieving certainty

That's why Imam Al-Ghazaly said "who doesn't begin with doubt, will end up with it"

But what's the difference between Islamic doubt and modernity doubt?

Islamic doubt is an introduction to certainty

While modernity doubt is the opposite to certainty

- But in practice? - I mean, it's good if you doubted Islam

In order to achieve certainty

I doubt in order to find evidence

When finding evidence, it'll take me to certainty

While modernity doubt is a general characteristics of humans

When the whole life is built upon doubt

That's how the idea that truth is relative came

It came from the fact that humans should always doubt everything

While when reaching certainty, they're described as dogmatic

Who is a person that relies of certainties while they want life based on doubt

But this isn't correct as the truth isn't relative

Relativity is true, that's correct

There are relative opinions and it's a fact

But truth isn't relative, otherwise it won't be truth

What will be the difference between truth and opinions then?

If truth was relative, it'd have been just an opinion

That's why doubt in Islam is an introduction to certainty

I'd like to discuss the idea of knowledge in Quran

You mentioned how there is knowledge in Quran

But we now also have other types of knowledge

Knowledge about natural sciences that don't exist in Quran

I'd like to know what do you mean by knowledge here

Quran mentions all types of knowledge regarding human sociology

Quran also mentions all types of knowledge that require divine guidance

I gave an example on the cognitive model

I can speak for long about this point if I'm allowed

Like in the political model, there are hundreds of versus regarding the political affairs

Like how many times the story of Pharaoh was mentioned in Quran

The story of Pharaoh is a political model

How many verses about war and peace in Quran?

As war and peace are the pillars of politics

The role of power and interests in the international relations

The balance of interests and principles and the international relations

The types of treaties

When to abandon or commit to treaties

The phases of international relations, all of this is mentioned in Quran

I mentioned many times the research I wrote 12 years ago

Or in 2012, where I said that the political verses in Quran are very few

Then I discovered how there are hundreds of verses related to managing the political affairs

Let me give you an example, Allah says:

"If you fear treachery from any people throw back (their covenant) to them"

Meaning that if you have a treaty with another party

Then you had doubts about this party but you aren't certain

It's different if you're certain, that's why it is "if you fear"

What to do at this situation?

When fearing treachery from this party?

Allah says "And prepare against them whatever you are able of power"

"And of steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy"

So, we must depend on the balance of power

So, if you fear treachery from a certain party

The solution is by raising the level of your power

To what level? Quran says "To terrify"

To the level that terrifies the other party

As the balance of power is only enough when deters the other side

Why? because when he begins to fear your power

What will happen? there will be balance of deterrence

That's why the balance of power will lead to the balance of fear

Which will lead to the balance of deterrence

What will happen if the balance of deterrence occurred?

Peace will happen; that's why the next verse says...

"And if they incline to peace, then incline to it and rely upon Allah"

When was the option of peace mentioned? after the balance of deterrence occurred

This is all political instructions

But when we abandon all of this claiming that politics in Quran is just about Shura and general affairs

Abandoning all the detailed instruction of Quran about political affairs

How could we be aware of Quran then?

The same applies to the educational field that we'll discuss

There are hundreds of versus discussing the educational field

Quran also connects different sciences unlike we do today

Nowadays, there's a clear separation between sciences

This is delusional, when separating education from psychology

And psychology from sociology

And sociology from politics

And politics from international relations too

Quran doesn't approve of this

Quran includes all sciences together beginning from the human psychology

As the human self dictates all behaviors and actions

Therefore, we must revert to the Quranic method in analyzing the human knowledge

My point is that when looking at the reality of Quran

We'll find that it tries to establish a guided and sound human knowledge

As if you'd isolate this knowledge from the divine guidance, it becomes a nightmare

By taking an example in politics and comparing it to the department of politics in universities

You'll find that they teach a totally different philosophy

They teach bits of Marxism, liberalism

And other political philosophies

They're taught and compared between to the students

But as you are a university professor

Is there a presence to the Islamic political philosophy?

Does it occupy any space in the academic scene?

If not, why don't Muslims seek such knowledge from Quran in their departments?

For the first part of the question

It differs between universities, but the general theme as per my knowledge

Is that they stray away from Islam

And if Islam was taught, it is regarded as a phenomenon

Not as a source of guidance

We teach Islam as a phenomenon in the political relations

But not as a source of guidance

So, we don't attempt to extract the Quranic political knowledge

To be used in my political affairs, this doesn't happen

I've never seen it even in Islamic universities

I don't find it to exist

Rather, they teach Quran as a phenomenon like any other in the political affairs

Which is a result to our perception of our role

Which answers to your second part of your question

Why don't Muslims seek Quran to extract knowledge?

It's about how our perception of Quran as you mentioned earlier

Is that Quran is a book of blessing

Not a book of guidance and knowledge

That's why we believe that Quran is sacred

But we don't believe in its effectiveness

If we did, we'd have seen Quran in universities

And in the research and scientific institutions

We just like it in Quran memorization centers

Or in recitation and everything regarding the appearance of Quran

But when it comes to the context and content, we stray away

That's why people send their kids to memorize Quran

Where they keep memorizing as much as they could

But when it comes to universities, Quran won't be found

While Quran should guide us there, yet they refuse

As they are scientific and educational institutions while Quran is a religious book

Therefor it doesn't fit in the scientific institutions

Which is not correct, assuming the integrity of intention

- Why did we abandon it? - If they believe they were scientific institutions

Where Quran doesn't fit, who said that Quran opposes science?

Quran didn't come to oppose science

Rather, it came to guide science

There isn't a science that doesn't require guidance

It can't be, you could think of any science

Like in politics, as you'd mentioned

How to address the role of interests in the international relations?

This has nothing to do with science

The role of power in international relations? when to choose war or peace?

Science doesn't determine this, it depends on your culture

Your values and ethical reference controls how you use power

And how to find balance between values and interests?

This has nothing to do with science

Like if you were an anthropologist

How will you determine if a society is advanced or traditional?

The whole science of anthropology everywhere

Divide societies into either advanced or traditional

Upon which standard is that determined?

Your traditional could be advanced to me

And your advanced could be traditional to me

So, there's a need for values even if you were a sociologist

Sociology aims to study the social problems, right?

How can I determine that a phenomenon is a problem without a set of values?

For example, how do I get to say that premarital sex is a social problem?

Except if I had a standard of values

For non-Muslims, it is not a problem

Why non-Muslims don't find filial ingratitude a problem?

Some might see it as conflict between the person and his parents

This is why you can't judge anything, like tyranny for example

People whose values are consistent with tyranny won't find it to be a problem

While others might see it otherwise

That's why even the first step in sciences

Couldn't be taken without such values

That's why when you claim to be a scientific institution

That has nothing to do with Quran, this isn't correct

You didn't reject Quran from universities because it isn't your field

Rather because you have a different reference which is liberalism

That's why when studying economy curriculums in universities

Or in political sciences, sociology or education

They're all in perfect coherence with liberalism

In their vision of the role and aim of science

And their vision of the topics and limitations of sciences too

All such emerge from pure liberal visions

So, they didn't rule out Quran because it isn't their field

But because they see it as a book unrelated to science

Despite that they teach topics not related to science such as Machiavelli

Is he related to science? or Thomas Hobbes?

Or Nietzsche?

They are all ideas and ideologies; some are good and some are bad

So why do you teach all of this

And when Quran comes which is guidance for all humanity

We attempt to abandon it, that's why we live a dangerous state of separation

Between the productive Muslim mind and Quran

We have thousands of specialists in education or sociology

And in international relations and economy and all other fields

But they are separated from the divine guidance

They produce knowledge that's separated from this guidance

That's why we will hold a conference in the Ministry of Endowments in Qatar

That will start for the first time next year

About Quran and humanities and social sciences

- The first time? - Yes, we aim to connect them

And how to bring the researchers in these fields

And get them to merge with the divine guidance

With the Quranic scriptures to be reinvested in their fields

If we succeeded in doing so, it will pave an important road in the Arab world

To regain the role of Quran as reference in creating this knowledge

As we'd mentioned, over the three levels of research

Quran exists in all descriptive, interpretive, and normative levels

In order to describe a phenomenon, you must have a value standard

And to interpret it, you must have a value standard

And to evaluate it too, you must have a value standard

Your value standards must be existent

Since you claim that Quran is your reference

Then, we must see it embodied

How do we claim that Quran is our reference

Yet we don't find it in the institutions of research and thought?

This is a huge contradiction

That leads me to Alija Izetbegović's saying

It shook me when I first read it

"Muslims do not believe in the sanctity of the Quran as a method"

"Rather in the sanctity of Quran as an object"

This is a truth seen by the naked eye

When Quran is burnt, people get angry and that's good

They reject any insult to the Quran

But we insult Quran by excluding it from knowledge fields

But we accept it that without a problem

Imagine we have a very smart person

He applies for a job in two different entities

One rejected him

And the other recognized his talents and accepted him

When employed, he is assigned an office outside of the company

Yet it is the most luxurious office

But you don't get to work with them

You're in your office outside of the company where everyone greets you on their way

But I want to work with you? "No, no, you're very smart and good"

"So much that we gave you the best office outside the company"

This is how Muslims treat Quran

Some rejected Quran like non-Muslims

While Muslims accepted Quran

Why not allow it to exist in your reality then?

Let it exist in your educational institutions

Allow it to be invested in all knowledge fields?

No, you're too great to be used, that's why we'll just keep you in Quran centers

And only during Ramadan...

We'll read you whole for 20 times

But don't intervene in the process of knowledge

Isn't this an insult too?

What was the only complaint by the Prophet in Quran?

When he said "O my Lord, indeed my people have taken this Qur'an as abandoned"

We repeat the same thing by abandoning Quran

When you memorize Quran, this is important

It's important to memorize the Quran

But it doesn't mean that you still abandoned it

You might have memorized Quran yet abandoned it too

When you don't use or ponder in Quran

When reading Quran, we see that it's straightforward

The aim of Quran isn't to memorize it only

- Rather to ponder in it - Let's talk about pondering

I find it rather important as you are asking us today

To ponder and read Quran in a certain way

To extract knowledge from it, yet...

There are linguistic and psychological barriers

We think that we aren't qualified to read Quran today

Like in this verse that just came to my mind

"Allah-us-Samad (The Self-Sufficient Master)"

Not everyone knows what Al-Samad means

And "And from the evil of the darkening as it comes"

Not everyone understands it despite reading it almost everyday

How do you expect me to ponder in Quran

And extract knowledge from it

And use it in my daily life and to correct myself

Without resorting to the traditional institutions?

And the traditional Tafseers and methods that we admit that not all are bad

But I think you attempt to propose a different perception?

I'd like to understand your view about this way

No, I don't think it is a new perception it is what Quran said

Quran itself asks us to ponder

So much that Quran even ordered non-believers to ponder in it

Even the non-believers, how about Muslims then?

"Do they not seek to understand the Qur'an, or are their hearts locked up by them?"

This verse addresses the non-believers

It asks them to ponder, how about us Muslims then?

It's strange how we live in a state of contradiction

We give out copies of Quran to non-Muslims

Believing that it might touch his heart and lead him to Islam

But why don't you read it yourself? they claim to be unqualified

Then why do you give it to non-Muslims?

When you refuse to read Quran

Your examples are also very important

When you say that Quran's language is verbally hard

But how much of Quran is like that?

Maybe 10% or 20%?

Let's assume that 80% of Quran is hard verbally hard to read

Why didn't you ponder in this remaining 20%?

While the fact is that most of Quran is easy to read

Most of Quran is simple to ponder like Al-Baqara chapter

Or Al-Fatehah or Al-Hujurat, they're all easy to read

One of my university students when I asked them to ponder in Al-Hujurat chapter

To extract their ideas from it

Some objected and claimed that it's a hard task

And how they feel unqualified

While he managed to get 29 ideas just from Al-Hujurat chapter

Pondering in this chapter explains the social principles

And how to manage the society

In very clear words

Like in Al-Baqara chapter "This Book, there is no doubt in it, is a guide to those who guard (against evil)."

"Who believe in the unseen, establish prayer, and spend out of what We have provided for them"

How is this hard to understand?

Also, in Al-Hujurat chapter

"Those who call you from behind the dwellings, most of them have no sense"

"O you who believe! if an evil-doer comes to you with a report, look carefully into it,"

"Lest you harm a people in ignorance, then be sorry for what you have done" it's clear

"And if two factions among the believers should fight, then make settlement between the two."

Clear words

"The believers are nothing else than brothers. So, make reconciliation between your brothers"

It's very clear

"O you who have believed, let not a people ridicule [another] people;"

"O you who believe! avoid most of suspicion, for surely suspicion in some cases is a sin,"

Clear meanings

So, to intimidate and scare people

That we aren't qualified isn't correct

Many Quranic words are clear

And we seek knowledgeable people for what's unclear

But people mixed between two concepts

The concept of pondering and exegesis

Pondering is required of all people

Everyone should ponder in Quran as much as possible

No one can't do this

Allah says "Ramadan is the month in which the Quran was revealed. Guidance for humanity,"

For all humanity, so everyone must have their share of Quranic guidance

There's no exception, as when I tell you

"Repel (the evil) with one which is better, then he, between whom and you there was enmity, will become a close friend"

It's easy to understand that if we had huge enmity between us

After a big conflict, one text message could change everything

For you to respond with one that's even better

So, Quran is easy to ponder for everyone

While for controversial verses, we seek scholars

Because they know about the contexts of Quran

They know the synonyms and rulings of Quran

The similarities, the verbal and present evidence

The causes of revelation, and the prophetic statements

And all other requirements of religious scripture studying

Yes, we seek the knowledgeable people for that but mixing between exegesis and pondering

It'll mean that the whole Quran is complicated while most of it is clear

Some parts are complex like Al-Saafat chapter

Where you'll feel the complexity of many verses

Only then you seek scientists, for verses you don't know

But we can't abandon Quran claiming that we aren't qualified

Today, when you speak with sociology professors

Or the professors of any human knowledge field

You can ask them about why they don't ponder in many Quran verses within their fields

Like hundreds of verses regarding the human psychology

Why don't psychology professors ponder in them?

To extract knowledge from them to recognize the challenges and traits of the human psychology

Such great investment of Quran psychology knowledge is rejected

Claiming that they aren't scholars

Who said that Quran is for scholars?

Rather it says that it's guidance for humans

Not guidance for scholars or linguists

Therefore, as a psychology professor, you can read

But with two conditions, the first is that when pondering

You must ask people of more knowledge than you

So, upon concluding a certain idea

It's advisable to ask a more knowledgeable person to assure

The second is when your idea is proven to be wrong, you retract it

But if you feel unique and don't hear from others

Where you favor your ideas and share them to others

Without consulting with your brothers and people more knowledgeable

- A huge problem is found here - It might lead to extremism

Of course, this includes all different sects

That's why both conditions are a must

To ask more knowledgeable people upon concluding

That's why Allah asked us to consult, to integrate with others' minds

Secondly, if you were proven wrong, you retract

By doing so, you'll be fine

But to abandon Quran claiming that you aren't qualified

This led to the separation of the Islamic mind from Quran

That's why I say that the greatest project in the 21st century

Is to establish the centrality of Quran

How to allow the Islamic mind to depend on Quran as a main source?

What does the centrality of Quran mean?

It means that Quran should be the first source for your perceptions

The first source for our legislations

The first source for creating and guiding our human knowledge

When Quran becomes so, we'll be on a correct and sound path

Yet the centrality of Quran doesn't refute everything else

But it means to revert everything else to it

Everything is important and valuable

But only if it is consistent with Quran

So, when we revolutionize the meanings of Quran and extract the principles of human knowledge from it

Only then we can say the Islamic mind is in a good position

But currently, the Islamic mind is distant from Qurna

And we're creating false and incorrect knowledge

That's why it feels now that the connection of Quran and knowledge is undeniable

We only need to change the way we see Quran

And we'll find all knowledge in Allah's book

And in its form

Because it is comprehensive on all levels

Not just in terms of descriptive and explanatory but also the normative

That organizes all knowledge in a guiding frame

Not just knowledge for the sake of knowing

While now, they convinced researches that they job is only to know the society

Not to evaluate it, but if we did so, who should evaluate it?

Yet they want only religious people evaluate or others

And we shouldn't evaluate as researchers

Nor intervene in evaluating phenomena which isn't correct

It isn't correct

What do you think about the phrase that Quran has many meanings

Some have this opinion

I discussed this previously but if that was true

The complete phrase which was accredited to Ali or others

"Yet take its best meaning"

So, it's true that Quran has many meanings

But not all of it, as hundreds of verses are definitive

With no possible other meanings, so the phrase isn't absolute

But some verses might have several meanings

So, we take their best meanings

Or what's most evident and proven

According to the rulings and context

And the objective unity of the chapter

All of this should guide you to the best meaning

Like "when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists"

Killing the polytheists could mean all of them or some

Or only the polytheists of Quraish, or who?

But by reverting to the context of the previous and following verses

You'll understand whom it meant

This is how we take the best meaning, but if Quran has many meanings

This will reduce the importance of Quran

Because if this was an excuse to stop referring to it

It'll mean that Quran doesn't have the ability to guide

Then how will it guide to what's best if it had many meanings?

So, I mean, even if they had good intentions about this opinion, they're wrong

And if they didn't have good intentions, it leads to abandoning Quran

And some have an excuse that they might make mistakes

Because it has many meanings, they say they might make mistakes

So, it is best to avoid that

Or not encourage people to ponder in Quran

That's incorrect, as who hadn't made mistakes in understanding Quran?

Even some of the prophet's companions made mistakes

Adi bin Hatem incorrectly understood the white and black line of the horizon

Until the Prophet asked him about his understanding

Then the Prophet told him that he has a wide nape

Joking him for his incorrect understanding

But the Prophet didn't forbid him from pondering in Quran

No, he corrected him to allow him to continue

If making mistakes was an excuse to abandoning Quran

We'd have all abandoned it as we are all prone to mistakes

No one can guarantee they won't make mistakes

So, mistaking isn't the problem

But the mistake is in abandoning Quran

Who abandons Quran in fear of mistaking

Fixes a problem with a bigger one

People fear extremism, Abu-Nahar...

There's an idea that those who get too deep

When trying to ponder or understand

Some fear even for their children to fall into extremism

Which causes them to be more cautious about this

What do you think about this aspect?

Extremists will be extreme in everything

Even in international law, America was extreme in understanding it

The invasion of Iraq was a result in extreme understanding of international law

They are extreme in understating many legislations

Like in the wars they wage under the name of democracy

They are a result of a wrongful exploitation of people's right to self-determination

So, America and the west were extreme in understanding the international law

So, extremism is found in the far right and far left

The solution isn't in abandoning the script

But in fixing such extremism

So, if someone was extreme in understanding Quran, should we all abandon it?

Because there are extreme understandings? no

The solution is by confronting this extremism

The same goes with manipulators on the other end

Some say that allowing people to ponder will let manipulators in

As if they are waiting for a permission?

Are they waiting for permission from scholars to enter?

They'll enter whether you agreed or not

Moreover, by forbidding people from pondering out of fear of manipulators

They will be the biggest winners

While the sincere people will be hurt the most

Because the sincere will avoid pondering out of fear from this

While manipulators will find it a chance to use the scriptures

In order to manipulate the minds of Muslims

We now see some of the famous manipulators

After entering the Islamic field, they won over big portions through their manipulation

Because Muslims cut ties with Quran by abandoning it

And in many cases, they no longer know many of the Quran scripts

Because they cut ties with Quran

Which led to making them easy to manipulate

They can be manipulated by any verse

Even Sharia professors fell for this

Why? because we are isolated from Quran

So, when we became scared of Quran

Then abandoned it, we became easy to manipulate

That's why manipulators are everywhere now

Why? as they realized how isolated the Islamic mind is

But the best way to fight manipulators

Is by encouraging Muslims and the youth

To read and ponder and know Quran

In order for a Quranic awareness to rise due to this

Which will be the best defensive line against manipulators

Otherwise, manipulators existed even during the revelation of Quran

They didn't just appear now after the social media

Rather they existed during the revelation of Quran as it mentions to us

"And those who disbelieve say, do not listen to this Qur'an and speak noisily during it"

They wanted to manipulate it "That perhaps you will overcome"

So, they wanted to manipulate it

That's why Quran ordered even the non-believers to ponder in it

"Do they not reflect upon the Qur'an, or are there locks upon [their] hearts"

So, to warn people from Quran

And to put crippling conditions to be able to ponder it

Fearing the manipulators, this way you help the devil

In attracting more people to abandon the Quran

The devil wasn't just watching when Muslims fell into the trap of abandoning Quran

No, he convinced them by telling them they aren't qualified and could make mistakes

And how they are less than to interact with Quran

He would lure you to do so

At the end, he becomes happy if you abandon Quran

Using endless excuses

This isn't delusional optimism, but seen reality

That many youths are starting to return to Quran

The river of Quran began cutting its way through the Islamic nation in a good way

And in a coherent and authentic way

Which if continued

Such Quranic seeds will soon quickly bloom

For everyone to see what will amaze them from Quran in the human knowledge

Because if Quran was will reflected to the Islamic mind

You'll see an unimaginable Islamic knowledge

Which will be the most attractive element in the current Islamic civilization if we managed to do so

Professor, but pondering is a bit hard and tiring

When you try to understand and focus

But in return, do you find pleasure in finding what you've been searching for?

Out of your experience...

For me personally, the viewers might find it strange when I say that I almost abandoned reading

I no longer read, maybe one or two books a month

While I used to read a book every one or two days before

Since I got to know Quran, I no longer can read other books

Because this book amazes me

When I find a nice idea that's empty

Then when I attempt to develop it by finding what's missing

I find what's missing in another place

This comprehensive state of the Quran amazes me

I never found this in any other book in my life

And I don't want to belittle reading

But the fact is that Quran amazes you as it expands the more you do

I would always get bored after studying any field for a year or two

Because the ideas are repeated with nothing new

- Only few new ideas are found - The logic of idea is repeated

Yes, except for Quran, it makes you feel crippled

Every time I feel like I managed to understand a certain idea

I find out more depth into it

No god but Allah, when does it end?

The more I go, I find out I'm still at the beginning

I thought I'd reached the depths of the Quranic Sea

Only to find out that I'm still by the beach

Such amazement made me see my life as just a second

I wonder how does it work?

Like how the political model in Quran took me 10 years

10 years so far and I'm yet to finish it

I wanted to study the economic model in Quran

But I was attracted by the idea that Quran only describes humans negatively

It always criticizes the human, I didn't know why

Why is human always criticized in Quran?

When I began, I found out that there's a complete educational model in Quran

So, I stopped researching economy and studied the educational model which we are supposed to discuss

I don't know when will we begin?

So, if you managed to open the doors to Quran

Which open to everyone who knocks

But with patience, you must be patient with Quran

It isn't acceptable to be patient with Nietzsche and Hegel

And Francis Fukuyama and John Stuart Mill for years

Like how some of us read Al-Shatbi for years

While they can't be patient with a chapter of Quran for minutes

This isn't acceptable

I always begin...

Due to my human nature

I find an idea that Quran briefly discusses in one position

Then I find it to expand so much that it begins as a tweet

I plan for it to be a tweet

But it expands to become an article

Then a book, then I give up on it

The idea became too large

I remember a small example

One time, I wanted to focus with Quran on a certain political topic

I wanted to read the whole Quran to understand its perspective about it

So, I decided to travel for 4 or 5 days just for this idea

I wanted to dedicate my whole mind to it

So, once I got on the plane, I opened the Quran

I wanted to begin with Al-Baqarah as I'd thought that Al-Fatihah doesn't have much

But I decided to begin with it for its blessing

I ended up consuming my whole trip with Al-Fatihah alone

I wasn't able to finish it

I spent 6 months in Qatar after returning just to finish Al-Fatihah

Until I gave up and still didn't finish Al-Fatihah

I found out what it is called the Introduction

And why there isn't a Conclusion

I wondered why there's an introduction but not a conclusion

I found out why Allah said "And indeed, We have bestowed upon you seven of Al-Mathani, and the Grand Quran"

I wondered it mentioned them separately when they're part of the Quran

It says "Seven of Al-Mathani, and the Grand Quran"

As if they were two different things

But when you understand Al-Fatihah, you'll know the reason why

Which will amaze you

My point is that we should change our perceptions about Quran

If we did so, we'll find many things as the only deprived is whom deprived of Quran

Sadly, we have a tradition especially for professors of Sharia

That Quran should be left to the end of the life

You should study Fiqh and Hadith

You should study Hadith terminology and Fiqh rules

And the objectives of Sharia and language in its branches

Like Rhetoric and its branches

Like Al-Maani, Al-Badee and others

Then study the Fiqh of language and morphology and derivation

Then study all branches of Quran sciences

Then at the end of your life, you can ponder in Quran

You might be able to do so or you might die before that

Who convinced the human mind that Quran comes at the last moment?

Instead of raising the youth on Quran's ideas

We only care about it at the last moment

Before we leave this life, we seek out Quran

Then how will we embody Quran in our reality?

Didn't Allah order us to read Quran to establish life upon it?

Didn't he order us to read Quran to establish the society upon the principles of justice?

Why only seek it at the last moment?

That's why we commit a huge mistake

And in the Sharia colleges in general in the Islamic world

When you discuss some Quran verses with Sharia professors

They argue that they aren't specialized in Quran

And ask me to seek the professors of Tafseer

How so? they respond that they specialize in Fiqh or Hadith only

Not specialized in Quran

How strange, how do you become a Sharia professor if you aren't specialized in Quran?

Quran is the source of Sharia as Al-Shatibi said

"Then We put you on an ordained way concerning religion, so follow it" meaning Quran

How do you become a Sharia professor without pondering in Quran?

When you don't know the founding terminologies of Quran?

How is that possible?

You can specialize in Hadith or Fiqh...

Only after specializing in Quran

That's why all Sharia colleges in the Islamic world

To dedicate the first year to Quran establishment

As some universities dedicate a year to establish the English language

The first year should be to establish Quran

Aren't they Islamic universities and Sharia colleges?

Then we must begin with the foundation of Sharia which is Quran

In this year, we learn about the fundamental terminologies of Quran

Quran has a network of fundamental terminologies that we must learn

To learn the chapters of Quran and their main organizing topics

To learn the analogies, decisive and ambiguous verses of Quran

To learn the main contexts of Quran

To learn the main Quran ideas and its stance against the other

This is the main Quranic establishment

For one or two years before entering into other fields

If I had the choice, I'd make a full Quran course

For all university students

To learn all foundations of Quran's perceptions in all fields of human and social knowledge

So that when specializing in Sociology, Education, Economy or Politics

They would have a Quranic foundation used in their specialties

To guide them in their study of human and social topics

But we isolated Quran

When the time to harvest came

We abandoned it and sought another tree

We didn't harvest the Quranic tree

I'd like to begin with the topic of education

But you just mentioned Al-Fatihah chapter

Which raised a question as when you were speaking

It was as if you can see it differently

We read Al-Fatihah on a daily basis in all prayers

So, in order to attempt to ponder in Al-Fatihah

Or to read it in a way to find certain meanings

To help us be more attentive during prayers

I didn't want to move on from this topic

Before knowing how to ponder in Al-Fatihah in specific

The main idea is to follow what Quran says

Quran ordered us to ponder

Pondering isn't reading, it is by contemplation

Contemplation has a key which is the word "Why"

If you ask why

You'll see how Quran will pour its knowledge to you

Don't skip verses easily

In Al-Fatihah for example, what did Allah begin with?

"All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds"

Why does it say "praise" not "thanks"?

What's the difference between thanking and praising?

Ask this, why did it start with praising?

Ponder in praising and when it was in Quran

And how was thanking used in Quran

You'll know the difference between both

You'll find that praising is only used after an action

"Praise be to Allah who guided us"

"Praise be to Allah who fulfilled his promise"

"Praise be to Allah who created the heavens" and all other examples

There must be a verb afterwards

Then you'll understand to search for the action that led to Al-Fatihah

And required the presence of the praise

Then your pondering mind will begin work

"All praise is due to Allah, lord of the worlds" Why did it say lord not God?

What's the difference between both? search for the uses of each word in Quran

The idea of comprehensive understanding of Quran's terminology as advised by Al-Ragheb Al-Asfahani

You can revert to Al-Ragheb Al-Asfahani who is a master of Islamic history

Al-Raghib Al-Isfahani in his elaboration of Quran's meanings

In many times, he is really accurate in his definitions

As he depended on the comprehensive understand

Then continue with the Quran to see how God and Lord were used

And you'll see the difference

You can rely on interpreters when the difference isn't clear for you

You can benefit from them but you should try on your own at first

To have a direct connection with Quran

Don't cut ties with Quran

And notice "Lord of the worlds" not the people

What's the difference between them?

Why did it say "Sovereign of the Day of Recompense"

What does the day of recompense have to do with the topic?

Then, why isn't Al-Fatihah accredited to Allah?

It's all accredited to the man

The one speaking in the chapter

"It is You we worship and You we ask for help."

"Guide us to the straight path"

It's all accredited to the man

It's the only chapter in Quran accredited to the man

Why? when you ask "why"

Things will begin to open up for you

Why does Allah say "O believers", "O people" or "O disbelievers"

But doesn't say "O Muslims"

Ask why then search for answers

But if you don't ask "why", how will you find answers?

Because "why" is the question of pondering

In order to ponder in something, you must ask about its reason

And why was it put in this way

We believe that Allah sent down Quran which is decisive

"a Book whose verses are perfected"

Therefore, each word and letter were written for a purpose

We must search and if you got yourself used to asking "why" then search in Quran

Using the method of comprehensive understanding, you'll find meanings

This is a simple method that any Muslim can apply

At least to create a state of connection with Quran

Then you develop yourself with Quran's books

About the sciences of Quran and known Islamic research methods

But at least, there must be a direct connection

You read Quran every day

But you don't feel connection to it because you don't search in it

You just read it formally

But you don't research the meanings

Here's the problem despite that Quran is easy to read

You just try and begin by asking

Then notice how they'll lead you to very big answers

And if couldn't find an answer you can seek scholars

Lead them to work with you on such Quran ideas

This is how you broaden the Quranic base

When I speak about this matter

I don't seek to make every scientist

No, I just want to broaden the Quranic base in the Islamic nation

But to separate them completely, this isn't right

You'll stay isolated and abandon Quran

Therefore, your knowledge about Quran won't develop

But you must develop by learning and asking

Overtime, you'll accumulate knowledge about Quran

To have a strong connection with Quran and it won't be easy to manipulate your mind

Not anyone that gives you an idea will deceive you

This is an easy method for everyone to learn

So, breaking the psychological barrier that hinders us

From having a direct connection with Quran

By just trying to read and ask

You'll find an immense joy

Ponder in Al-Duha chapter, for example

Take a paper and write your ideas while reading it

Notice how amazingly it is organized too

Notice "And proclaim the Grace of your Lord", the last verse

People think that this grace includes everything

So, show off all your money and belongings

Thinking that is the same as proclaiming

But if you search about Allah's grace in the Quran

It began with "By the Glorious Morning Light, and by the Night when it is still, Thy Lord hath not forsaken thee, nor is He displeased"

"And soon will thy Lord give thee thou shalt be well-pleased"

Where has Allah spoken about giving in Quran?

"Surely We have given you the Abundance"

Link both verses together

You'll find how verses connect together in an amazing way

Just ask, read Al-Hujurat chapter and write down your ideas

Tonight, before sleeping, or Al-Furqan chapter

You'll find that you accumulate ideas

Today, you might write two pages when reading it

Tomorrow, you'll write four

And if found an idea, search for it in other places

How was expressed in different places?

In an integrative manner, not repetitive

Repetition sometimes happens to provide emphasis but in general, Quran ideas integrate

But not in one place, as a point might be in Al-Furqan or Al-Hujurat

Or in Abas or Al-Duha for the Quranic idea to be integrated

Like in Al-Mutafifen for example

When you read "Woe to those that deal in fraud"

Who are those?

Fraudsters are like the verse had defined

"Those who, when they have to receive by measure from men, exact full measure"

"But when they have to give by measure or weight to men, give less than due"

If they have a right, they seek it fully

But if he owes a right, he doesn't commit to it

He's strict in his rights and not in others

What's the opposite of them?

When you search, you might think it's unjust but its opposite is just

The unjust is who denies others’ rights

In the same chapter, you'll find the opposite meaning

If a fraudster is who seeks their rights fully

While not committing to others’ rights

Allah mentioned the Righteous to us

"Day, verily the record of the Righteous is (preserved) in 'Illiyin"

Who's a righteous person?

Righteous people are who fulfill others’ rights

Yet is tolerant in their rights

If I owe you something, I'll fully repay you

But if you didn't give me my full right, I might forgive you

That's why Allah described himself as "Surely He is Most Benign, Most Compassionate"

Why did Allah describe himself as the most benign?

Because Allah fully gives us our rights

You'll find all your good deeds with Allah without any loss

"Whatever good they do shall not go unappreciated" you'll find everything

But if you neglected in Allah's right, He forgives

That's why He's the most benign

This leads us to talking about filial piety

Why does it ask to be piety not just?

To give them their full rights

But if they neglected your rights, you should forgive

My relationship with my parents isn't built upon justice

Rather it a relationship of piety

I don't use the logic of repaying the deeds

As they aren't like your friends

They are your parents

The logic of treating your parents is different

Notice how connected the verses get

We were talking about righteous people which led us to The Most Benign

Which led us the filial piety

Quran connects in an amazing way

That's why whoever says that Quran isn't from Allah

From whom then? it's impossible for a book to be as coherent and integrated

Which is connected to each other like this

How can we understand Quran's position on education?

We wanted to begin talking about this topic

How can we understand education in Quran?

Quran used a strange way in the topic of education

It didn't head start by guiding humans

Rather, it dedicated a number of verses

Just to explain the human nature

And the properties of the human psychology

It began with a perception so you could understand

Sometimes I used to wonder about the benefit of some verses

Which are mentioned as depictions only

While Quran is for guidance so it should do so

No, it brought many verses just to explain the properties of human psychology

John Dewey, the American educational philosopher

He's a pillar of educational philosophy in the 20th century

Said that each philosophy must begin by understanding the nature of human psychology

Which is what Quran had done

As in "Nay, surely man transgresses"

"Because he considers himself self-sufficient"

It didn't judge, just explains

It explains the human nature if he began to imagine

If he began to imagine that he's self-sufficient

It's an indicator that he'll soon transgress

- A human nature - Yes

Once you see indicators of self-sufficiency

Trust that he's about to transgress

Whether in politics or education

You could appoint someone as head of department

When you find him to criticize his manager openly

To show off his power

It's clear, even if by his tongue slips

When he appears to feel self- sufficient and egoistic

This is an indication of transgression and how we extracted the elongated arm theory

And we tried to explain Hamidti's actions in Sudan using this verse

And Vagner's phenomenon in Russia and the Janissaries in Ottoman empire

How such entities were formulated but when their managers

Began feeling self-sufficient, they transgressed

We can also add the idea of prevalent majority

Both models create the theory of the elongated arm

By which I mean...

The militant arms created outside the traditional military

In order to protect the authority from the powers of the traditional military

As when Al-Basheer brought Hamidti

And the same with the Ottoman empire with Janissaries

You'll find indicators of self-sufficiency when you watch Hamidti

His indicators of self-sufficiency were apparent

Vagner's president was a cook

Then he suddenly began criticizing the minister of defense and others

His indicators of self-sufficiency began early since 2014

After intervening in Ukraine then expanding in Africa and South America

His self-sufficiency indicators were apparent too

Quran explains this

Which is descriptive knowledge

"Truly man was created very impatient"

This is information without judgment

- It is a fact - Yes, man was created very impatient

"Fretful when evil touches him, And niggardly when good reaches him"

This is the nature of human psychology

Quran gives a full diagnostic

It didn't aim to cure the human psychology

Rather to diagnose it first

That's why all depictive verses

Must be considered as diagnosis of human psychology

The problem of the modern educational system

Is that it doesn't use a correct understanding of the human psychology

Our schools and universities and education system

They don't seek to teach teachers about the human psychology

In order to manage kids and students correctly

You can't create correct education without a sound understanding of human psychology

Right?

So, without using such sound understanding

We won't achieve correct education

There are researches conducted by scientific universities

- Such as in America or Britain... - It's a human understanding

They're attempts to understand the human psychology

But when we prioritize education, we bring teachers

And tell them how to interact with students

But we don't sit with the teachers

To explain the human psychology to them

In order for them to understand and manage it

When it says "Truly man was created very impatient"

You must explain what impatient means

And the meaning of fretful and niggardly...

Quran mentioned around 15 negative traits in humans

Impatient, fretful, niggardly, hasty

Stingy, despondent, unjust, ignorant

Adversary, exultant, boastful and all others

All these characteristics aim to diagnose the human psychology

Those are humans’ traits, not all appear by necessity

Yet every human has those characteristics

But some of us have only 3 or 4 of them

Or 5 or 6 apparent ones

While the others are latent or hidden

You have them but they aren't activated

When are they active? when you engage in an environment that develops them

Let's assume I have four of those traits

But I don't have the trait of being adversary

The adversary is one who argues with false arguments

You know you're wrong yet you still defend yourself, isn't that your nature?

- You stickle - Even in gatherings after knowing the truth

They still stickle in order not to be embraced among others

They still argue as "but the human being is a most argumentative being"

He will always argue and defend himself

Or if I wasn't stingy for example

But when I engage with an environment of stingy people, I'll slowly become one

I'll become stingy

This is how if you, Faisal, had some negative traits

And I had some too

And another one too

We'll feed them to each other without knowing

That's why Quran only had negative mentions about the human being

Because it means the people with such traits

And when Allah said "For man was created Weak"

Why is man weak?

Because he has those negative traits

Which makes you weak

When will you become strong? when you move from the human model

To the belief model

When you become a believer, you change

You will have different characteristics

That's why Allah always says "Except for those who believe"

"Except for those who pray" which is another level

That's the education model in Quran

Aims to transform humans from having those negative traits

Into another model of the believer who has the opposite traits

All the traits that I'd mention previously

Quran mentioned their opposites

In the model of the believer

- So, we must know such traits - Your educational project must be...

Since you first go to school

Education begins with cleansing the human psychology of those 15 traits

One by one, and Quran had mentioned the psychological motives of each

And mentioned their challenges and behavioral traits

And mentioned their properties

In order to learn and acknowledge them

Then mentioned the opposite characteristics

And the challenges that hinder your progress towards the positive traits

Both diagnosis and treatment are found in Quran

We need to embody this educational model in schools

If you managed to cleanse me from those negative traits

Even if not all of them

If you only instilled one of them in me

Out of all those 15 characteristics

Which is the characteristic of being grateful

Imagine to raise a student to be grateful since the beginning

Do you know what it means?

To be grateful is to appreciate

When you are grateful, you appreciate

Allah is known to be "The Thankful"

Which means He appreciates our deeds

"Praise to Allah, who has removed from us [all] sorrow"

"Indeed, our Lord is Forgiving and Appreciative"

Forgiving of our misdeeds and appreciative to our good deeds

That He appreciates them

When a human is grateful, he's also thankful

Being thankful means to use Allah’s grace according to His will

Allah graced us with things, right?

You must use them according to His will, otherwise you'd be ungrateful

You can be either grateful or ungrateful

In order to be grateful, you must use each grace

That Allah had given to you according to His will and guidance

For example, if Allah granted you a position which is a grace

You either look at it as a trophy

Then use it to benefit your friends and close one which is dominant sadly

When you use the position in this way, you become ungrateful

And some people are like that

When you ask him why he'd appoint a person that's a disaster to the society

He answers that he did it to please him

Why not make him run your own companies? No, he'll ruin everything

- He'll fail me - Yes

Then why do you burden the society with him? it's okay

This is betrayal to the country, not just by allying with its enemies

It's a type of betrayal

Another type of betrayal which is sadly popular too

Is by appointing unqualified people which trouble the society

And waste the countries energies

That's why you can either look at the position as a trophy or as a responsibility

If it was a responsibility, it'll be a tool to all that's good

Then I'll support each project in the country

And each success so that it grows and flourishes

Because it's my responsibility in this position to support each person to succeed

I'm responsible for everyone to succeed in my field

This is the aim, to facilitate good and repel evil

And if I'm rich and wealthy, I must dedicate that to what satisfies Allah

How so? many projects include many charity aspects

And many businessmen, sadly, cling hardly to their wealth

Even the old ones, I frankly don't understand this logic

When you're 70 or 80 and clinging to hundreds of millions

I saw strange people like this

They prefer to have their money as numbers in the banks

Rather than seeing it as happiness in people's faces

Or than being put in projects that help people

Why is that? on the contrary

The peak of happiness is when you see how your wealth made others’ lives better

To develop our communities and guided people to the righteous path

Keep enough to live a luxurious lifestyle, I don't oppose that

But most of our money is just numbers in the banks

I swear, if some spent a million Riyals every day, they won't run out of money until they die

Despite that, they cling so hard, which is a type of being ungrateful

When you keep your money which is a grace from Allah, this is being ungrateful

While the grateful is who spends it according to Allah's satisfaction

Even your mind is a grace

Some have great analyzing capabilities, but where have they invested them?

Some are well-spoken, but how was it invested?

So, when you raise a child to use each grace according to Allah's will

How will the equation change if just I was to become grateful?

Since primary school until graduation from university, you instill being grateful in us

Nevertheless, the other positive characteristics mentioned in the Quran

Let's just take gratefulness

In the negative traits, only fixing being withholding is enough

When Allah mentioned the people who withhold

He said "A preventer of good, transgressing and sinful"

Notice how accurate the phrase is

In another place he said "Preventer of good, aggressor, and doubter"

Notice how Quran describers’ preventers of good as aggressors

- Despite that he only prevents good - Yes, which is aggression against others

For example, I know you're applying for a job you're qualified for

And when the employer asks me about you

When I want to prevent good from him, I'll claim that Faisal has problems

Trying to spread lies about you, which is an aggression against you

- This is how Quran describes it - For which you are held accountable

Of course, that's why in Al-Qalam chapter in Quran

"So, they set out, while lowering their voices"

The garden owners

"There will surely not enter it today upon you [any] poor person"

Withholding good from others

Then when it was burnt, what did they say?

They said, "O woe to us; indeed, we were transgressors."

Transgressors are who take others’ rights

So, what happens when you withhold good?

Then you transgress against others

Some think it's just a word

Now you find officials specialized in withholding good

Their only job is to become like a stick in a bicycle

Wherever they see working projects, they hinder it

- Because they aren't their own - Without feeling it

Yes, if the project was mine, I'd support it

But if it is another official’s project, it's different

I must hinder it so it stops

But they don't intend to do so rather caused by fear

- There's no sane person - He prevents good

No, many people hinder success if it wasn't theirs

Either it is mine or I'll oppose it

This is far from Allah's saying "And cooperate in righteousness and piety"

On the contrary, if you had a successful project, it's mandatory for me to cooperate with you

If had the ability, I must support you

While those who prevent and withhold good

Eventually become like a stick in a bicycle

Whenever the wheel of good moves, he stops it

As came in the Prophet's Sunnah

That you should be a facilitator and when you are raised upon this idea

Wherever a good project is found, you must contribute to it

And whenever a bad behavior is found, you must contribute to stop it

Like if you were in a gathering that speaks ill about someone

Change the topic then

Change it so you can be a preventer of evil

You prevented an evil and misdeeds from happening

By speaking ill about a friend

Just change the topic without arguing and shut the door

Like when knowing a fault in an idea of a project

That will cause problems, then be a preventer of evil

Advise them on how to solve it and prevent the evil

Always make sure to be supporter of good and preventer of evil

Imagine if our education system evolved around this idea

On the idea of children to become supporters of good and preventers of evil

I'm afraid we could make mistakes...

Only if you were certain by having experience

But I don't mind making mistakes

Even when ask me for something that I have which is needed for your project

When I think of myself as a supporter of good, I'll help you

But if I thought about how I won't gain nothing from your success

Then the equation will differ drastically

That's why you should act according to being supporter of good and preventer of evil

Education should emphasize such concepts with different exercises every year

Until they are firmly instilled in the children

I compare the education model to an example that might sound weird

But I find it the best way to describe the educational model in Quran

When you read the educational verses in Quran

It is almost as if the human being in the Islamic perception

Wasn't born in the middle of an easy road

An easy path like this table

Rather, he is born in the middle of a mountain path

No one is born at the top of the mountain

Nor in the bottom

We are all born in the middle of this mountain path

The Quranic mission and the divine test to humans

Is how to achieve the top

You have two options as "Then He showed him what is wrong and right for him"

You have the ability to ascend or descend to the bottom

It's your choice

Allah shows us that we have two main enemies

Both seek to drop you to the bottom

You'll try and attempt to ascend

But you have two enemies, the devil and the self

The devil has a clear mechanism explained repeatedly in Quran

It begins with "And if there comes to you from Satan an evil suggestion, then seek refuge in Allah."

A suggestion or a thought that occurs to you

You might think it's a minor one

Then he convinces you with it "When Satan made their deeds pleasing to them"

Let's assume you have an inheritance

And your sister is young

You might think that she doesn't know and that you spend on her

Only a suggestion that if you sought refuge to Allah, it will end

And you'll decide to give her Allah, full right

But if you accepted this suggestion, it'll begin to be pleasing to you

I'm the one spending on her, and where would she spend it anyway?

I'm her brother and what's good for me is good for her

And so on until you love this sin

Each sin will be followed by another until you drop to the bottom

It's easy to descend as with any mountain

That's why the Prophet said "Hellfire is surrounded by lusts"

Descending is always favored by man

Some have a wrong perception that if you are doing well then, you're good

This is untrue

Easiness isn't an indicator of good or bad

Easiness might mean you're on the wrong path

The act itself is what matters

I have a divine validity on whether the act is good or bad

While easiness or hardship isn't an indicator as a good path might be hard and vice versa

That's why Allah says "We will ease him toward difficulty"

Some people are eased towards difficulty

Meaning that the wrong path is facilitated to them

Due to the accumulations of mistakes

Allah facilitates the sinful path to him

So, when we say that a person's affairs are facilitated

That doesn't mean he's on a right path

Sometimes this easiness is due to descending

Ascending is hard that's why Quran uses the idea of Jihad many times

Because to strive is to make effort

But what drops you completely in the bottom

A free fall to the bottom not a gradual one

The free fall is polytheism

If you became an idolater, you've free fallen

Which is an expression from Quran "And he who associates with Allah is as though he had fallen from the sky"

Notice the expression "As he had fallen from the sky"

A free fall "snatched by the birds or the wind carried him down into a remote place"

There's no escape or survival from it

Because polytheism is the end of your chance in life unless you've repented to Allah

But whoever falls into polytheism will cause all his good deeds to end

You are no longer in the competition

In order to clarify the concept of polytheism

Some asked about the meaning of polytheism in the last episode

Polytheism is to worship another god with Allah

Ibn Hayyan says it is agreed upon by the majority of interpreters

That polytheism is to worship another god with Allah

What does God mean?

A god is whatever you totally submit to

Total submission to whatever he asks you to do

Whether it opposes Allah or not, you'll submit

This god can be in the shape of an idol

Or a person like when Christians claimed that Eisa is God

It could be your superiors that you submit to

Why did Quran describe the people of the book as polytheists?

Even though they claim to be monotheists

Because "They have taken their scholars and monks as lords besides Allah"

But Christians and Jews don't pray to their scholars and monks

So, the rest of the verse says "Exalted is He above whatever they associate with Him"

Because they sanctified and completely submitted to them

You could submit to anything as some Arabs did to Jinn

When Allah described them as polytheists "Yet they make the Jinns equals with Allah"

So, polytheism is by submitting to another god besides Allah

Regardless, anything you submit to is considered polytheism

But it's important to define the nature of sin in Islam

Regarding the topic of ascending and descending in education

When you read in Al-Baqara chapter

In the page where it says "I am placing a successor on earth."

This page explains the types of human sin

All of our mistakes are among three types

Either a mistake of negligence

Or a mistake of weakness or rebellious

- Negligence, weakness or rebellious - Yes

There is no fourth type

The mistake of negligence is the mistake of angles

When He said "I'm placing a successor on earth"

They said, “Will You place in it someone who will work corruption in it, and shed blood"

What did Allah reply to them with?

He won't explain and justify to them

Rather He said "I know what you don't know"

They made a mistake with this objection

Because if Allah wanted something, we don't get to question it

"He is not questioned about what He does, but they will be questioned"

It's a requirement of worshipping Allah not to question his will

Like why did Allah create us or such

Allah created you and that's everything

Allah isn't your partner for you to question

You aren't partners, you are a worshipper of Allah

Therefore, you must accept Allah's will which is the logic of worship

That's why when the angels questioned Him

Allah warned them here

That's why warning in enough for negligence

So, they said "Exalted are You; we have no knowledge except what You have taught us"

Once they were warned, they knew

The mistake of weakness is Adam's mistake

Adam weakened against Iblis's luring

He was weak, that's why Allah said

"And We had already taken a promise from Adam before, but he forgot; and We found not in him determination"

So, he didn't resist Iblis's temptations

He was weak therefor made a mistake

The biggest problem is in Iblis's mistake

Because he sinned as a result of rebellious

It wasn't weakness or temptation yet he refused and took pride in himself

"He was proud and was one of the disbelievers"

Notice when Iblis refused to bow down

Allah asked him "Were you arrogant, or were you among the haughty?"

I used to ask about the difference between being arrogant or haughty

The arrogant is haughty

No, arrogance is refusal of the order

While being haughty is to refuse the one who orders

Let's assume you work in a ministry for example

You're a district manager and below you is a department manager

The minister decided to seat the department manager before you

If you refuse because he's a department manager while you are a district manager

Here, you weren't haughty

You refused the order but not the minister as he's your boss

But you refuse the order as it is wrong

On what basis should he be before me?

So, you refuse the order not the one who gave it

While when you reject the one who orders

That's why Suliman told the people of Yemen upon inviting them

"Be not haughty with me but come to me in submission"

Meaning that you shouldn't think your superior to me

And that I should order you

Rather you should come and submit to me

So, when He asked Iblis "Were you arrogant or were you among the haughty?"

Iblis wasn't normal and said "I'm better than him"

His problem is with the order as he thought he was better than Adam

"You created me from fire and he from clay" so I'm more knowledgeable than him

Here's the problem, so what did Quran mean by all this?

To show humans that all their mistakes are among those types

Either a mistake of negligence and its solutions is by knowing like what happened with the angels

Or a mistake of weakness and its solutions is by repenting

"Then Adam received from his Lord words, and He accepted his repentance."

Or a mistake of rebellious which is debauchery

Debauchery is a gateway to polytheism

Sadly, many Muslims...

Fall in Iblis's mistake

Adam's mistake is a sin

Allah was accurate in Quran

When He described Iblis, He said "he disobeyed the command of his Lord"

While He described Adam as "Adam disobeyed his Lord and erred"

He disobeyed, not debauched

Because debauchery is a result of rebellious

He sinned out of rebellious

Which is our problem, man usually sins as a result of negligence and desire

For example, they advised me that a certain deal is haram yet the gains are high

After I'd entered and won money, I regretted

This is okay, he could repent to Allah

Or if one drank alcohol then asks for forgiveness

This is a sin out of desire

But some prolong in such state

Claiming that alcohol isn't clearly haram in Quran

Or that there's no clear evidence in Quran

Or questioning why usury isn't haram as he and the bank benefit

So why is it haram?

Notice how we moved from feeling guilt and needing repentance

- To legalizing a sin - He legalized it

This is how man is, after committing a sin he feels ashamed

So, what does he do to stop feeling so?

He goes and legalizes the sin

- Rebellious - Just like Iblis did

He legalized his sin by justifying it

This is the problem, so when a person seeks such logic

Will find himself at the gates of polytheism

By moving from a normal sin to rebellious which is Iblis's sin

So, there's a difference between Adam's sin and Iblis's sin

Adam's sin was because of weakness which is common among humans

That's why Allah mentioned both examples of Adam and Iblis to clarify to us

That Adam's mistake is normal and all humans are prone to it

With an easy solution of repentance

"The repentance accepted by Allah is only for those who do wrong in ignorance"

"And then repent soon after."

He did it and repented and that's all

But the mistake of rebellious is the problem

For example, when Al-Aqsa flood happened

Many people said that we can't do anything

Every time they say the massacres they feel guilt

In order to get rid of this guilt

They legitimize their despondency

- How so? - By blaming them

Why would they want to free their country?

When Israel is strong and can't be confronted

- They don't want trouble - This causes trouble

If they sat down and did nothing towards it

And accepted the daily killing and torture

They don't mind slow killing but refuse mass murder

As if you'd count those who die every day

Like in the West Bank and how many are killed every day under the Iron Wall operation

A number is killed every day but it's okay

Just don't kill them all at once or I'll be hurt

But it's okay to kill them gradually, this is how some people think

My point is that they'll always justify

Why would they fight? Isreal is a nuclear power

Isreal is backed by the west and as such

According to this, you must allow them to occupy your country

If Isreal tried to occupy your country, you mustn't resist them

As they are stronger and will commit genocide to you as it did in Gaza

- The same logic - That's why you should accept

So, we moved from a sin of weakness to a sin of rebellious

The biggest mistake a Muslim can make is when Iblis moves him from spontaneous sins

To deliberate sin resulted by rebellious

Then you fall into the problem of debauchery

Which will gradually take you to polytheism

If you sin, you must always remember

"Indeed, those who fear Allah, when an impulse touches them from Satan, they remember"

Those who fear Allah when tempted by the devil

No one is infallible in Islam

"And at once they have insight."

Let's return to the example of the mountain

Humans will always repent but once they reach the level of debauchery

They will free fall to the bottom

So, the Quranic education model that our systems should follow

In our current age and within our Islamic world

Should be on how to assist the student

And the young to ascend to the top of the mountain

Reaching the top doesn't mean the end of work

There are conditions to stay at the top

That you must follow as long as you live

We'll talk about the metaphor of the mountaintop

This top is I understand is heaven

- You will... - No, it's the assured self

You'll find peace and tranquility

To facilitate worship

- I thought the top is the last place - This is after death, life has no heaven

I mean that by taking this path, when you die

No, when a person is used to worship

And used to taming Iblis and preventing him

And used to stopping his misdeed-seeking self

After a while, he'll feel comfortable with obedience to Allah

His self got used to it after a period of training

The more you train it, it'll get used to it

The same is in many things like in diets after 2 or 3 weeks

People get used to the new food diet and continue

Everything requires a period of time for the self to get used to it

So, when you are used to obedience, you'll reach peace

Walking in the right way, but this too has conditions

To continue in this state of peace

This is it; you'll always fight until Allah takes your soul

So, education is a continuous process

My point is that teachers in the education process

Must realize that they seek to take the students from the middle to the top

Then they'll find joy in this process as he'll be rewarded too

Abu-Nahar, if we had a school that applies the Quranic educational system

Compared to the current educational system

Because you just said, if only one trait is taught

On how to be thankful

Schools today teach students on how to thank others

And how to appreciate others

But it is totally different that the idea you'd mentioned

So, if we did so and taught children many Quranic concepts

On how fix himself compared to the current concepts

Which also seem good, as when kids go to school

You don't feel like they teach children anything negative

Like how to be a good person or apologize

And to thank others, which are somehow good traits

Compared to Quranic characteristics

How can we imagine a child that has been taught in your model?

He'll be totally different

I appreciate the positive aspects you'd mentioned

But the Quranic education model can't be compared if applied

With any modern model no matter how good it was

Let's assume a child went to a school that truly applies the Quranic model

He will graduate as a person free in his mind

As Islam forbids sanctifying others

When people love, they add great characteristics to them

To glorify them, which the Quran refuses

Quran asks the Islamic mind to follow the evidence all around

"Produce your proof, if you should be truthful"

"Do you have any knowledge that you can produce for us?"

The human mind usually tends to glorify the masses

And to follow the majority

While Quran doesn't care for the majorities

"And if you obey most of those on earth, they will mislead you far away from Allah's Path."

Yes, respect and value the majorities

But don't glorify nor submit to them, rather I follow the evidence

Moreover, Islam frees the human mind from its desires and prejudice

Even your desires, so it frees you from yourself

Allah says "O you who have believed, be persistently standing firm in justice, witnesses for Allah, even if it be against yourselves"

You must admit your wrong deeds even if on yourself

You must admit, as when I argue with you

If I'd discovered that I'm mistaken, I must admit

As I'm free even from myself

Which is objectivity in its finest forms

Even if you didn't know

Even if the mind doesn't know, what does Quran order it to do?

It orders it to stop and "And do not pursue that of which you have no knowledge"

Imagine a child graduation with such mentality that he's free in his mind

Doesn't submit or take anyone for granted

He respects others but only submits to proof

How about such mind? how will it be like?

This is the mental level, but on the psychological level

He's firm, calm and strong-willed in himself

Why? because Allah orders him not fear anyone but Allah

He orders people not to fear except Allah

And not to seek but Allah

People have wealth but I don't cling to it

People have abilities but I don't fear them

In case of a disaster, I don't give up

If I had wealth, I don't seek more and prevent from others

Which is the human psychology nature in Quran

Monotheism gives you courage

While polytheism gives you humiliation

There's an amazing verse that explains this image

Allah says "We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve"

Why? " For what they have associated with Allah"

It is as their polytheism caused terror to be casted upon them

As if polytheism prepares you for fear

- Fragile - Yes

That's why monotheism breeds courage as with Gaza fighters

Where did they find such courage?

This is the courage of monotheism

He realizes that what hit him wouldn't have mistaken him

And what mistaken him wasn't going to hit him

That's why you might find a group of isreali soldiers

With all their technology

While the soldier in Al-Qassam or Saraya Al-Quds

Doesn't have 1% of what they have

But their bravery and stability

Causes them to run with all their technology

We'd seen many scenes like this

So, humans will find peace from within

If we raised children on the Quranic educational perception about the human psychology

He'll grow to be stable and in peace with himself

This is when it comes to arguing with others

Now, they encourage dialogue with others

Quran says "debate with them in the most dignified manner."

Only debate with others in the most dignified manner

So, if you had a good or a better way, use the better one

Because during dialog, conflicts might arise

So, the better you kept your manners, the most likely for you to win

That's why Quran asks us to use what's best

In general, it orders you to only say what's good

For people to only hear good from you

"And speak kindly to all people"

This how such child will only speak kindly to all people

Regarding history and the past

Allah tells us that we aren't responsible for the history’s mistakes

Allah says "That is a nation which has passed on. It will have what it earned, and you will have what you have earned."

"And you will not be asked about what they used to do"

You won't be blamed for the mistakes of history

Muslims aren't responsible for the mistakes of the past

Yet, He still orders them to learn from it

"So, take warning, O people of vision", so we read history in the logic of this duality

We move on from all mistakes but we learn from them

This way we aren't imprisoned in our history

And at the same time, we benefit from it to our future

Regarding sacrifice when interacting with others

Allah orders us to sacrifice

"But give [them] preference over themselves, even though they are in privation"

Students will learn to sacrifice and be selfless

While if he was full of himself and interests

Even when interacting with enemies

"And let not the enmity and hatred of others make you avoid justice."

"Be just: that is nearer to piety"

Students will treat their enemies fairly

He'll admit to a good thing about his enemy

And he'll admit if he had mistaken his enemy

Because Quran orders us to be fair with them

Do you know who this verse was meant for? the disbelievers of Quraish

The worst enemies of Islam

Yet He orders us to be fair with them

If David Hume says

That humans are rare to be fair with their enemies

This is with normal enemies, how about the worst of them?

Quran orders us to be fair with them

Loyal to his partners, doesn't betray or deceive

Because Allah ordered him to fulfill covenants

On the level of protecting people's honor

They don't accept talking ill about others

They don't accept spying, which all protect people's honor

Imagine if a student graduated with such traits?

Regarding spending, they don't spend and show-off

"Eat and drink but waste not by extravagance" and be modest in spending

Regarding the relation with the weak ones in the society

They don't limit their relationships with the wealthy class alone

When you advise some people to find who are poor to donate to them, they don't know anyone poor

How so? what kind of life you live?

You don't have a relation with the weak?

Even though Quran always connects both as a standard

Your relationship with Allah is determined by your relationship with the weak

The weaker it is with the weak, it does the same with Allah

That's why you might find it strange how He mentions orphans

Orphans and poor people are always mentioned

Because no one cares for them

And He wants to constantly connect you to them

Regarding your parents, you must be obedient to them

Allah asked us to "And lower to them the wing of humility"

To show humility before our parents

Regarding the relationship with the partner

In case of separation, He says "And do not forget graciousness between you"

By activating the positive memory in each breakup

In the culture of breakup, like if we were business partners

After breakup, we should "not forget graciousness between you"

We must activate the positive memory between us when we breakup

While people are now used to remembering the bad deeds when breakup

"He did so at this situation..."

Then question the intentions too

For the devil to begin to show me all your bad deeds

But Quran refuses this and urges to activate the positive memory

Remember everything good between us in the moment of breakup

Whether as business partners or marriage or any other type of partnership

Separation has a culture in Islam

Just like agreement has a culture

Both agreement and separation have a philosophy that we must learn

The same also with confrontation or avoidance

My point is that you'll graduate students free in their minds

Stable in themselves, and obedient to their parents

Advising to their society, fair to their enemies

Loyal to their partners, helpful to the weak

Protecting of others honor

What more could you ask for?

Yes, don't compare Quran to others

Like other educational systems that fail to produce students with half such characteristics

Now, students in the schools are a bit too sensitive

- Especially this generation - This is psychological fragility

- They didn't describe it as so yet - This is due the lack of stability established by Quran

For if we applied such teachings to the human

How will he become?

We'll find that Quran which is a written text

Will be embodied for us to see

Even the concept of trust and how not to fear the future

Yes, when you trust in Allah, it's over

Allah will take care of your affairs in the future

That's why if a student embodied such characteristics

He'll turn into a visible Quran that we can see

Because he embodied the Quran teachings

As Aisha said about the Prophet that "His character was the Qur'an"

He embodied the teachings of Quran which gives complete immunity

Which is the difference between the education model of Quran and elsewhere

So, if a child grew up with such traits

He'll have full immunity

We care today about the physical immunity

That's why we use vaccines and other things to protect the health

But where's the psychological immunity?

What's the system that provides it to me?

Quran provides it to us through trusting Allah and what I mentioned previously

When it makes you thankful and humble

We must know what the humble is in Quran too

All such characteristics create my psychological immunity

When I only fear Allah and ask only from him

This creates the psychological immunity

It also gives me mental immunity

By refusing to follow the culture of the herd and as such

And gives me evidence which creates mental immunity

That's how the Quranic model creates a comprehensive immunity

Mental and psychological immunity

But the self is the foundation of all this

What about other subject in school?

A child must learn language, math

Chemistry and others, where do they fall in your model?

Or do we just learn Quran and that's it?

No, I'm talking about the educational aspect not the cognitive one

You must provide all knowledge to them

But I'm discussing the educational aspect

Which is the responsibility of the school too?

Of course, as you spend half of your time there

So, the educational aspect isn't just exclusive to the family

Some say that the family should educate

We are talking about how the school is responsible of two things

The first is knowledge and learning

And I don't need to explain it

As they all compete on it

I'm talking about the other forgotten aspect which is education

Education is sidelined

But I'm talking about what if we applied the Quran educational model, how will we be like?

- So, you want it to be the main thing - The foundation for everything

Because we want a person that's built upon the educational model of Quran

If you succeeded in that, you'll find stability in your community

But, Abu-Nahar, to say that the traditional learning system

Doesn't it provide what we want? what's our duty as parents

And as brothers to give the space of Quran to our children

Which doesn't exist in our education system so, what do we have to do about that?

As a parent, you're responsible for your child before the school is

The Prophet said "All of you are guardians and are responsible for your wards."

Your duty as a parent to embody the Quran educational model

To seek to have the traits we mentioned in yourself

And to learn them one by one

And to get rid of the negative traits mentioned in Quran

In order to ascend from the human model to the belief model

Then, you transfer this model to your children

So, if schools lack the educational aspect

Parents are supposed to handle this role

But the problem today is

That parents are busy with securing livelihood

More than with securing their kids morals

They only care about sending them to the best foreign schools

To take pride that their kids are in such schools

But if you ask them about the education situation of your child

What about the moral situation in the school?

They'll belittle the matter until they grow older

But now he at least knows English and other things

But when the child grows and the father notices his irresponsibility

And how he neglects his parent's rights

And his family and is distant from his siblings

Evolved around himself and his own interests

Then the father will begin to regret and complain this situation

About his children didn't grow up as he expected

Which is normal, for what have you planted?

You won't harvest anything but what you've planted

You can't plant a palm tree then expect it to give apples

If you wanted apples, then plant an apple tree

But you don't plant incorrect education

Then expect good results later on

That's why you should work on education

This is what matters, while it is not so bad if the child grew with less information

- Not so bad? - Yes, he can make up for it anytime in his life

Now using the internet, you can learn about all types of knowledge

But the problem if you grew up lacking education

I always say raise me with less information but not less education

I can make up for the information in any way

To learn what I'd missed

But with less education, this will shake a whole community

So, the essence is education which is now clear

But if we wanted to dismantle the current education system

How to do so in order to practically look into it

In order to find the difference between your model

And the current model, how to do so?

I don't deny the current educational efforts in the schools

There must be huge and immense efforts

But they aren't in the image we hope to see

The error is massive, not small

For me, I see that the main problem in the educational system

Is that it relies on the idea of intelligence

Since the childhood of the students

They just gather information and thinking skills

With all different types of mental skills

Analyzing, understanding, criticism, comparison and others

While the pillar of education in Islam isn't intelligence

Rather it is Rationality

What's the difference between both?

Intelligence is the wide mental capabilities

When you have broad mental abilities like analyzing and as such

If intelligence is the broad abilities...

Then Rationality is how to best use those abilities

Islam doesn't deny intelligence

But it requires rationalism along with it

So, when you find this word in Quran

You'll see how it's tied to good behaviors

"If then you find sound judgement in them, release their property to them"

When an orphan has sound judgment, give him his money

So, the educational system in Islam evolves around rationalism

In order to develop the mental abilities

And the scientific capabilities

At the same time, to develop your awareness of them

Not just to fill you up with information

During all school years as if you are a machine

Then I let you be

Intelligence alone isn't enough

It is just a tool that could be used in good or bad

That's why Quran never praised intelligence

Why? because it is a tool, and Quran doesn't praise tools

Unless when they aim to lead to higher purposes

- Which is rationalism... - Yes, look...

The modern age is about tools not purposes

Such as liberty and science which are tools that became purposes

Intelligence is a tool that became a purpose

But Islam doesn't compliment tools at all

Except if it led to the noble purposes

So, you could be very smart but not rational

You could be smart and reckless too

You could be a genius but reckless

For example, despite your intelligence, you could be racist

Like a very big physics scientist who is racist

Or a great physician that goes to demonstrations to allow children to change their gender

- Doesn't that exist? - Or a zionist too

Or a zionist, or a misogynist too

Intelligence isn't connected to rationalism

This is the problem of our modern educational system

It thinks that intelligence is enough

Therefore, it focuses on intelligence

There is an educational side but the primary focus is on intelligence

The gateway to get into these schools

All focus is on intelligence

That's why they seek to graduate intelligent students

While the Islamic perception aims to graduate ration students

Rationalism doesn't deny intelligence but includes it within a bigger process

In order to use this intelligence well

That's why the educational process must transform

From evolving around intelligence to rationalism

In order for our work to be beneficial

If you notice in Al-Rom chapter in Quran

When it discussed the Byzantine civilization

It mentioned just one verse that tore it open

"They know what is apparent of the worldly life, but they, of the Hereafter, are unaware."

It proved to them that their knowledge isn't beneficial

When science isn't tied to noble purposes, it becomes useless

Islam doesn't praise science because it is science

Rather when it is a responsibility

Why does Quran specify the beneficial science?

Because it is the responsibility, while we consider science to be a status

Today, as an academic, I don't consider my position as a responsibility

That's why you find many academics detached from their society

I even heard an academic official saying that as academics

We aren't supposed to go down to the level of the society

Imagine that...

Even the race of universities to be ranked is to seek status

Universities seek to be ranked more than to benefit the society

Which made science to be a status not a responsibility

I consider science as a status as an academic

To have a superior look down at the society

Which allows me to get social benefits

This is how science became

While science in Quran is different

Science is a responsibility that if you didn't do it right

It'll turn into a curse against you

That's why Quran criticized the scientists of Bani-Israel

Why? because they didn't fulfill their purpose

That's why we must return back to the first square

What's the purpose of science?

Today in the midst of such huge rush towards science

The Quran criticism is now applied to us

When it criticized the Byzantine civilization

It meant that they sought the tool not the purpose

We do the same thing today in the Islamic world

They know "what is apparent of the worldly life" and graduate generations of the same

While "but they, of the Hereafter, are unaware."

We teach them, but for what?

You want a good engineer, but for what?

You want a good physicist, but for what?

All this science can be used badly

When Daesh appeared, they didn't lack knowledge

They had experts from all over the world

And they had technical abilities that sometimes surpassed some Arab armies

And some of the best university graduates joined Daesh

So, the problem wasn't with science

What does it mean to feed me information then leave me ignorant on how to handle them?

Science is a tool, something we don't realize in college

We look at science as a purpose and that we should excel in it

But what's your real role with it?

They could use some apparent reasons

But we don't focus on the purpose of science in our reality

As a primary standard

Even the race of artificial intelligence

People are racing now to reach the best technologies

Which leads me question as when we were talking before the episode

On why are they racing for AI?

What's its reason and what does it aim to?

You also mentioned another thing about rationalism and wisdom

I'd like for you to comment on the second part at first

Yes, Quran said "whoever has been given wisdom has certainly been given much good."

Whoever is given wisdom, not intelligence

It also said "It guides to the right course" not to intelligence

So, Quran always ties Muslims to the purposes

Not to the tools, contrary to the modern civilization that does the opposite

That's why we should always question what we see

We should ask about the purpose of everything

You want liberty? why? in Islam, it is tied to justice which is a noble purpose

Science is tied to spreading good and responsibility

But now, tools have turned into purposes

Money itself, we take pride in the abundance of it

Everything aims to glorify those means

To turn them into purposes

The first problem is the problem of intelligence

The problem of depending on inelegance not rationalism

Which is a result of different perceptions

What's Islam's perception towards humans?

It sees him as a person that wants to do good

That's why rationalism should be his first step

- Towards this greater goal? - Yes

While in the modern perception

Humans aim to maximize their interests

That's why intelligence is the standard

For the economic standard

When the perceptions changed, the pillars changed

The prioritizes intelligence to make humans into economic beings

While Islam prioritizes rationalism to make righteous humans

So, when the perceptions changed, all foundations changed

You can see it for yourself without telling you

Look at the schools

Do they depend on intelligence or on rationalism?

Is the idea of rationalism existent for the educational decision makers?

I don't think so, but we hope that there's a good movement

We began to notice after people started feeling the problem

You feel like there's a movement, right?

Yes, I don't deny how some officials began complaining from the current situation

And the current crisis in the educational system

And there are considerable efforts

In Qatar, a new educational transformation happened several months ago

Which people are optimistic about

And I notice some change in some countries too

But we are still trying to find a way

We still haven't found an educational system of authenticity

While this rush towards science and riches

Must stop a little so we can see the purpose of it

But the world works according to this economic pattern

You must cooperate with others

Is the world your standards or do you have one of your own?

- I have an authentic one - Yes, follow it and leave the world

The world might be headed towards a disaster

Throughout history, many lifecycles led humanity to disasters

That's why Europeans aren't our standard nor the Japanese or the Chinese

Develop your standard according to your own culture and value system

Then you won't be responsible of what others do

You just have to give advice if they were wrong

And benefit if they were correct

But not the other standard

We do this because the French did it

Or as the Germans did

We can't deny the role of western scientific and research development

I didn't say that we shouldn't benefit from them but don't make them your standard

I'm always accused of opposing the west

I oppose how we made the west our reference

I want us to use the western ideas as tools

Meaning, we take them if they were beneficial and leave them if they weren't

But today, we import the western ideology as a reference to us

They might claim to be benefiting from it

But they are turning it into a reference

For example, when you bring democracy in

Democracy is a western idea

You might find it okay to accept democracy

But if you wanted to change a certain thing about it

Like if I had a better idea than the separation of authorities

No, no, you can't do that as it is not used

Democracies don't do that

You said that it was a tool, so let's develop it?

No, the house of freedom or entities monitoring democracy indexes

Say that this isn't democracy, which makes the west our reference

After we just wanted to benefit from them

I don't mind the idea of importing

But I oppose its concept

On what logic do we import western ideas?

Even the universities today, what is their reference?

Why universities exist?

Let's modify the university system

It takes 4 years, but what if we made it 1 year?

Or 1.5 intensive years in a different way?

Or 6 years, which is more?

They'll oppose any change in the system

Every idea about the system is rejected

Until the west changes it, then we do the same

We discussed this in the first episode

The problem is that they manipulate us

They claim to bring just the mechanism of the western ideas

But gradually, they turn into a reference to us

And when any Arab official tries to change

He will find vicious resistance from the traditional entities

Because such academic institutions turn into hard templates

That prevent any outer movements

We'll return to this idea to explore it more

About our problem and why we feel lost

Are we weak?

Do we lack ideas?

We'll return back to this

But I'd like to finish dismantling the current educational system

Whether it was imported or not, but the one we follow

We discussed how if evolved around intelligence not rationalism

This is the first problem we discussed

Which caused the separation of education and learning

Which is used in a narrative

Maybe not all European countries do it

But some of them like France

That education is a private matter while learning is a general matter

The country's job isn't to educate people

Rather to teach them

Some Arab and Islamic countries were influenced by and separated both

Because we are only responsible of teaching and thus separated them

But this is dangerous

When you say that education is the individual’s responsibility

This means that only the family should educate

Which leads us to realize that each family is capable of providing correct education

Which isn't true, as many families are incapable of providing correct education

And many families are the source of trouble to their children

The parents might have many wrong perceptions

Where the children learn many negative perceptions

Therefore, the role of the school is to educate them

So, when we say that education is a private matter that only concerns the families

This leads us to thinking that all families can provide correct education to their children

Which isn't correct in reality

Also, by separation education from learning

It means that the state doesn't have an educational perception about the good citizen

Countries always repeat how they want good citizens

But the term "righteous" is a cultural and educational concept

Righteous according to what standard?

Faisal has a standard to what's righteous and Naif does too

And others do too, so...

What values does the European have?

What values make him righteous?

So, if a state isolated itself from education

It is as if they admit to not having a standard on how a citizen should be righteous

Which is a very big problem

The righteous citizen is who follows the law

Or doesn't break it, this might be the concept of a good citizen

When he follows the laws of the country

But not everything about the law

Law governs the apparent behavior

But what about the ethics?

For example...

Your perception of a good citizen is whom sacrifices to his country

But the law doesn't require sacrifice

The law addresses the rights and duties, nothing more

Therefore, in order to instill good education

And how to make people beneficial to their society

This is a totally different educational system

The country must have an educational vision on how citizens should be

Otherwise, the state admits to not having such vision

The danger in feeding students as if they were machines

Feeding them with information without righteous education

Then, science will be used in different ways as we'd discussed

Which reminds us of the Prophet's hadith that "The best of you are those who learn the Qur'an and teach it to others"

When some hear this hadith

They question it

As other things might be more important

Like medicine, engineering and others

Is it true that Quran is the best science? yes, it is

Because it provides you with divine guidance

Which is more important than science

Because science without awareness turns into a dangerous weapon

A very dangerous one that might turn against humans

Wasn't the person who invented the atomic bomb intelligent?

Yes, wasn't who invented all illegal weapons intelligent?

Yes, but he exterminated humans with them

How many were killed using such weapons?

Millions of people were killed

That's why the question is, what's more important? science or awareness?

Awareness is, but where do we get it from? not from science

Science has nothing to do with awareness

Science gives you information

But awareness is how to handle this information

Here comes the role of Quran that guides humans on how to handle their psychological and mental abilities

- In their lives - Critical thinking

- Doesn't it increase awareness? - No, it improves your abilities

But what are you criticizing for?

So, when I criticize...

It is good to improve my critical abilities

What then? as criticizing has purposes and aims

This is also linked to the idea of awareness too

Okay, so, to have intelligence as a foundation

And the separation of education and learning

But to be honest, if I wanted to get my child into school

With all respect to all teachers

But I don't trust them to educate my children

I think in the Quranic system

There's a shortage even in teachers

They might have problems that they'll transfer to our children

And I'm protective of my children as many parents are

That don't consider schools to be a place for education

No, I don't believe in such generalization

Some school put great efforts on education

And some are exceptional in the education aspect

Schools differ, as some have very little contribution to education

And some contribute greatly

It differs, especially with the private schools

Each one has its own educational method

But the lack of Quranic education

This is a general widespread case

If found, it is in rare examples

That's why you can only find few such exceptional schools

- Correct - Yes, not the original state

That's why it is required of our countries to make it into the original state

Quranic education is the original state

So, we have separation, intelligence prioritization

The separation between education and learning

Also, you mentioned the difference between teaching and practicing

- I'd like for you to define both - I say that education

Is in essence a matter of practicing than it is of teaching

Meaning that you don't learn education in classrooms

It is a matter of practice learning

That's why you can find education more in the playground than in the classroom

When you play football with children

You'll find all the educational problems

Which is the biggest place of educational correction

When kids play football, even the adults too

But try with the children

You'll find the selfish ones

Those who attempt to always keep the ball

Even if they will lose the ball, they only care about keeping it

Even if the other team scores

I prefer to waste the chance rather than another scores

You'll also find the self-sufficient

Those who celebrate alone when scoring

Ignoring who helped him to score

You'll find lying

When the ball goes out of the line, he'd swear that it didn't

When it has gone out

But he has this trait

You'll also find the reckless

Once the other team scores a goal

He spreads negativity in his team

You don't know how to play, it is my mistake to have joined you

Until his whole team is frustrated

While they are still in the middle of the match

- Don't you see such examples? - I play a lot of football

I always say that the team's personality appears when losing not winning

We might accept mistakes when we are winning

But if we were losing, the same situation leads to a different outcome

Like when someone gets angry for not being passed to

As you'd said, I think one person could affect the whole team

Yes, losing is a great chance to practice correct education

When losing, frustration and hopelessness spread

Blaming and ill thinking begin

It is a chance, that's why I say that education begins in the playground

Education should happen in the practical situations

While learning happens inside classrooms

That's why we should separate both processes

Education must in essence happen through practice

While learning happens through its different methods

That's why Quran trained us, it didn't give us theoretical knowledge

Quran ordered us to be piety but didn't stop there

It gave us an annual training course

"Decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you" why?

"That you may become righteous"

Why does the month of Ramadan come every year?

Some say in order to feel the poor or other reasons

Those are correct but as secondary reasons so, what's the reason Quran mentioned?

"That you may become righteous" what's being righteous?

Being righteous is to commit to Allah and others

If you committed to Allah and others, you're righteous

Even to other people, as Allah says

"The ones with whom you made a treaty but then they break their pledge every time, and they do not fear Allah."

Or don't commit to agreements

That's why Allah's fear is mentioned along with treaties

"So as long as they are upright toward you, be upright toward them. Indeed, Allah loves the righteous"

So, the purpose from fasting Ramadan is to get used to being righteous

Didn't Allah want you to commit to his guidance so you could be a successor on earth?

But committing is hard for the human self

That's why it is an annual training course

Where you are forbidden from your most loved things

And you will commit to that for a whole month

And if you stopped what you love for a month

You could stop other things too

All the sins you claim to fail to abandon

When you fast, you stop even drinking water

- True - For a whole month

So, if you wanted to commit

This is a training course to learn to commit for a whole month

Which gives us an educational aspect

That fearing Allah alone isn't enough

Rather He gave us an annual training course

In order to train on how to be righteous

Even in many other verses like...

"Then when Talut set out with the army, he said: "Verily! Allah will try you by a river."

"So, whoever drinks thereof, he is not of me,"

"And whoever tastes it not, he is of me,"

"Except him who takes (thereof) in the hollow of his hand."

This is a trial, a training

Why they can't drink but one handful?

It is a trial and a training

Allah gives us signs in Quran on the important of training to achieve education

Then, Talut won in the battle

Here you should ask yourself

When schools teach children about the importance of honesty

And being humble and thankful

What exercises have they provided for them?

What are the daily training practices?

Training on educational ethics should be a daily routine

- So, they are instilled - They must be put through different situations

In the playground and other places

Or through demonstrative short clips

They must see the value of being thankful every day through different ways

- Honesty too - In different ways

In situations without knowing they're demonstrations

But by driving them to certain situations form which they learn

And people are innovative in creating different training methods for the students

Which are educational methods to instill such characteristics

I'm trying to understand it a bit more

To transfer it from theoretical learning

To practicing and learning

So, education can't be taught in a theoretical manner

Rather by practice, while schools usually teach but not train

On different ethics

- This is true - Are there other problems in the current educational system?

There's the problem of not considering the psychological side as a gateway to knowledge

We treat humans as a mind only

Where they accept information by learning about it

Which isn't correct

Quran tells us that it is not true

Rather by providing the mental and sensory knowledge

Despite that you might not accept the facts

Allah says "We had assigned them the (faculties of) hearing (ears), seeing (eyes), and hearts"

"But their hearing (ears), seeing (eyes), and their hearts availed them nothing "

Despite having the mental and sensory knowledge

Yet they weren't beneficial, why?

"Since they used to deny the Ayat of Allah"

Which is a psychological problem

If the self didn't accept the knowledge sources, they fail

They don't work, look...

Mind has a barrier which is the self

Each information you get

If it didn't convince the self, it mostly won't enter the mind

That's why when you hate someone, you don't accept their facts

- Even if they were correct - We don't accept them

Why? because yourself hates them

That's why Allah orders us to argue with what's best

Because if you manipulated the other's self

What will happen? he won't accept the facts

If you offended him with your words, it's over

That's why if a person responded to you badly

This will provoke you

And you'll provoke him and it'll turn to a competition of provocation

Then no one will benefit anything

The truth will be lost, but we argue to find the truth

And to find the truth, we must flatter the self

Because if it got angry, it shuts down the mind

And it won't accept any knowledge

You must satisfy the self so the mind can accept

You must win the self over

As to what Allah said to the Prophet

"And had you been severe and harsh-hearted, they would have broken away from about you"

All despite being a Prophet with the absolute truth

He still warns him that they'll abandon you if you were severe and harsh-hearted

Who will abandon him? the best people after the Prophet

Those are the best of the Ummah

Despite that He warned him from being severe and harsh

Despite that the Prophet has the absolute truth

Being harsh will cause people to abandon him

While he has the absolute truth, how about us then?

We only have opinions that could be right or wrong

Despite that, we argue them harshly

Some justify this behavior for being protective of the religion

But if you really were protective of the religion, you'd have followed it

The religion didn't ask us to argue harshly

Rather by what's best

Why? because Allah created us and knows best

And knows our ways

He advised us to first win over the self

Notice how if someone had spoken well with you

You'll accept his ideas

Because flattering the self will open up the mind to you

And once you provoke the self, it'll shut down the mind to you

It is a very clear matter

But we don't prepare student's selves to accept the facts

Even if they contradicted the mind

For example, when I hear a person with bad attitude

I might close the video and not listen to him

But I must get myself used to that not everyone has good attitude

Not everyone can deliver ideas in a good manner

Not everyone accounts for the human self

That's why you must attempt to separate

As a receiver of information

But not a sender

When I send out my ideas, I care about how to deliver them

And to express them in the best way

But when I receive ideas

I must be aware that not everyone delivers their ideas in the best way

Therefore, I must urge myself to be patient and tolerant

To ignore the method and accept the facts

Even if that was hard for the human self as I'd said

If the Prophet would have been abandoned by his people if he was harsh

How about normal people?

That's why we need to stabilize the human self

To accustom the human self to accept the facts

Because if the self was straightened, the mind will too

Notice in Musa's mother's verse

Allah says "And the heart of Moses' mother became empty"

"She was about to disclose [the matter concerning] him"

"Had We not bound fast her heart"

He assured her heart and her mind followed

She almost lost her mind due to the absence of Musa

She almost disclosed what happened to him

But he assured her heart so her mind properly worked

That's why the fearful can't think

Like those anxious people who whenever hear bad news

Will begin thinking about bad outcomes and complicate the matter even more

The first thing is to have psychological stiffness

By doing so, you'll think properly

That's why Allah said

"O you who have believed, when you encounter a company [from the enemy forces], stand firm"

Without firmness, you won't think straight

Like in Gaza when they were promised hellfire if they didn't release the hostage by Saturday

Open all hellfire as you want

What do you think we are? we are firm

Right? at the end, they were forced to allow caravans and aid as the resistance demanded

This is being firm, but if they hastily responded, they'd have demanded more

That's why psychological firmness is the first requirement

That's why it's important to raise student on how to be firm

So, their minds don't distort

And not to be carried away with any good or bad news

As either could cause humans to be reckless

Is it different than being kindhearted?

If a person is kindhearted

His affairs will be facilitated even among people

He'll win people over and win their selves before their minds

Which is important as you might see some people

That are kindhearted and easily liked

But where do we get this firmness from?

Which is another topic, being firm

Does it come through...

Moving from a human to a believer?

When you practice your role?

Or what's the gateway to firmness?

Is it the belief?

The matter requires practice and giving in

To give in for whatever the fate brings you

The good I received wasn't going to mistake me

And the bad wasn't either

You must trust this

Trust that Allah is your trustee and guide in this life

Then you should fear or worry

Knowing that whatever evil that happens is a test from Allah

The same also what the good too

Tests aren't just the bad things but the good ones too

"When his Lord tries him and [thus] is generous to him and favors him"

Yes, it is both in good or bad

Some say Allah doesn't test them

For they are healthy and in a good financial status

With sound mind and attractive looks

But those graces are tests too

"To test me whether I will be grateful or ungrateful"

When Suliman was graced

Then saw the throne setting next to him

"And when [Solomon] saw it placed before him"

he said, "This is from the favor of my Lord to test me whether I will be grateful or ungrateful"

This a grace but a test too

That's why if you keep in mind that life is a test

Your aim is to succeed through patience

And gratefulness towards graces

By this role, you'll be graced with firmness

As what else could happen?

Everything is written

Therefore, don't fear or worry or seek these things

So, in order to finish this topic

Again, have we forgotten anything regarding the problems of current education?

Before moving on to the next topic

The problems of education are many, Faisal

If we'd talk about the modern problems, as I compare to Quran

I compare to the Quranic educational model

To see the gaps between it and our educational reality

This doesn't end if we opened it up

A thing that just occurred to me

In the matter of separating ethics from perceptions

It's a general problem but also exists in education

Quran doesn't separate between ethics and perceptions

It doesn't introduce ethics separated from their existential perception

Nor from the conditions that follow them

As in, why should a person be honest?

Or to be just?

Or to be kindhearted?

There are existential perceptions justifying them

For example...

Allah says "and spend out of that in which He has made you successors."

Notice how He first clarified the perception to you

He urged you to spend

But not from your money

This isn't your money, it is Allah's

You are a successor of it

Then what happens when you correct my perception?

Practice becomes facilitated to me

As when I give you 100,000 Riyals as a gift

But then ask you to give 10,000 of them away to the poor

It's normal, because I'm the one who gave you the 100,000

It'll be easy for you to give 10,000 away

But if the 100,000 were yours

You earned it from your salary or business or anything else

Then I asked you to give 10,000 away

It'll be so hard for you to do

That's why Allah said "spend out of that in which He has made you successors"

A reminder that this money isn't yours

Which is true, if Allah gave me this money

It'll be easy for you to give it away

- So, it links it... - With a higher perception

In order to facilitate doing good, as they'd be hard without perceptions

How to convince a person to be honest?

You must urge him using higher perceptions

It is true that he might listen and become honest

Or truthful

But when you link it to existential perceptions, it becomes more established

Not just perceptions, but with limits too

The ethics limits of legal obligation

Like when He required us to do charity because we're successors

In another verse, He said "O ye who believe! cancel not your charity by reminders of your generosity or by injury"

Which is a limit to do charity without bestowing or hurting

Bestowing is obvious, when you mention everywhere

That you'd given away 100,000 to Faisal

Or anyone else

- Or to remind him every time you see him - It's clear

But hurting is by hurting his feelings

To hurt his feelings

Some people when helping you with a certain sum

After a while, they ask you for other things

Because you now owe him

And he has a favor on you

Like asking you to hire his cousin

In a certain position

Or that he wants something or his brother

He begins to ask you for things to embarrass you

Or to give you the money in an offending way

That's why Quran focused on the feelings of the needy at the end of Al-Baqara chapter

Don't miss with them by filming them

Like those who film themselves giving poor people charity while they don't want that

If they agree to it, it's okay

But if they don't or accepted just for the money

This is offending and hurting them

This way your charity will be invalid

Why? because it turned into hurting

The aim of charity is to remove hurt not to add it

That's why Quran is very accurate in this

Regarding their feelings

I ask all listeners to read Al-Baqara chapter after this verse

To see how the verses care for the psychology of the poor

We must consider their psychology

And to respect them and their feelings

In order not to ruin the aim of the charity

As it aims to help and aid

Not to add psychological pain to you through such things

That's why when Islam proposes its rulings

They are linked to existential perceptions

And moral limits

Do we present ethics in the same manner in the education system?

Regarding their existential perceptions and moral limits?

We need to establish such thing

True, I thought how we don't link them

Even if such link doesn't exist

Can a person commit, but...

Sometimes there is linking but in a different way

Like if a person is honest but went through hardships, without existential perceptions

- He will abandon it - Yes, as he will think...

That he will win more by not being honest

After all, you'll never eradicate corruption from earth

By applying the Quranic education

Corruption must still be found on earth

Otherwise, why does Iblis exist? if Allah wanted earth to be free from evil

He'd have ended Iblis at once

But He kept him and evil to test humanity

But we should reduce corruption to the lowest level

To reduce it as far as possible

As much as the human limit is

That's why when saying Islamic political regime

People assume it'll be angelic and free from mistakes

No, there must be mistakes, otherwise we won't be humans

Only when the rulers are angels, then there won't be mistakes

But since we are humans, we'll carry out Islamic financial experiments that are prone to mistakes

Islamic political experiments that are prone to mistakes

Or Islamic educational experiments too

This happens and we accept that, but...

The best thing about the Islamic system is that it corrects itself

If strayed away, Quran has auto correction

It brings us to the best path

Now, the west strayed away regarding liberty

We all see this, but what is their auto correction method?

They don't have any

Because they don't have a higher reference

While Quran auto corrects us

Like if we went through a racist path

What will we do to Allah's verse "the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you."

Which is a clear auto correction

The more we stray away, definite scriptures will bring us back

Which they lack without a correct and sound higher reference

That's nice, I'd like to end this topic now

No, don't, I have one final point to wrap up with

Which is the idea of the compass

I always repeat this idea

That the greatest thing a man needs in his life is what he lacks in the education system

For during all the years of education until the PhD

Or the Bachelor’s degree

This whole system doesn't provide me with a compass to my life

How to manage this life and when to confront or not?

How to argue or avoid?

How to criticize or ignore?

How to end my relationship with others?

And how to establish new ones?

How to treat my friends?

Such topics that matter to all humans

If ignored, they might cause depression and misery to you

The things that control your psychology until you die

Are the things we don't learn in schools

Schools feed you with information

But they don't provide a life compass

Through which you manage your life

Which is the best thing about the Quranic education system

It provides you with a compass that you can use to run your whole life

Which is a very clear compass

I can mention 20 examples of it

Regarding the embodiment of the Quranic compass

An example...

Previously, I used to argue with everyone

I used to argue with any one

But when reverting to Quran

It tells you that you shouldn't argue with everyone

Because people are of two types

One that loves truth and one that hates it

Some hate the embodiment truth as it is a responsibility

And the responsibility requires work

And work has a cost

While humans hate cost and prefer rest

So, they don't want the truth so they don't have to bear its consequences

So, you shouldn't argue with those as they don't want the truth

While arguing was only advised to deliver truths

But if the other doesn't want it, why will we argue then?

Which is clarified in the beginning of Al-Baqara chapter

Allah says "Indeed, those who disbelieve - it is all the same for them whether you warn them or do not warn them - they will not believe"

Then why call them back to Allah?

If there's no hope for them?

No, He meant the denying type

Those who disbelieve means who deny

Those have no hope, so leave them

But later on, you find other verses

That address all people who seek the truth

The ones that strayed away and lost the truth

We can argue with those "And if ye are in doubt as to what We have revealed to Our servant, then produce a Sura like thereunto"

Which is a dialogue with those who want they truth but don't know it

But those with negative attitude towards the truth as they don't want it

Don't argue with them

Which relieved me

I must first recognize the motives of the person

If he shows signs that he doesn't want the truth

Like those who personify the matters

Like when they adore and a certain public figure

They won't argue with you in logic

Because they completely support this figure

Then leave them be and don't argue your ideas with

Because their standard isn't the proof but this person

Since this person said it, then it must be true

The same also in political views too

When they support a certain country that never lies

Or never makes mistakes

Whoever is evolved around things or people, not the evidence

Are useless to argue with

That's why Allah ordered us to ignore them

So, do that

One thing that the Quranic compass is beneficial for

Which helped me personally, is the idea of when to confront or not

When to confront and when to back down

We used to think that we should always confront evil

But Quran tells us that evil has two types

Evil that dies when confronted

And evil that dies when ignored

Some evil dies when confronted

While some evil flourishes when confronted

Let me give you an example

Remember Salman Rushdi in the early 80's?

When he published the book "Devilish verses"?

I had a professor that was a colleague of his in London at that time

When he published this book, no one noticed him

Nor heard anything

People ignored him

As he is an unknown writer that no one knows

Until Al-Khumaini released a Fatwa that justifies killing him

Then he became the talk of the world and was hosted in all international stages

And won international prizes and became widespread in the world

He gave him free advertisement

Which falls into aiding evil and aggression

As you'd contributed to his fame

You contributed in the spread of this evil with wrong confrontation

So, he became known and famous, why?

While if you had ignored him, it'd have been over

Notice what the zionists did with Al-Masiri

Al-Masiri, may he rest in peace

- Abdulwahab Al-Masiri - Abdulwahab Al-Masiri

One of the finest Islamic minds in our time

In 2000, he published his encyclopedia

About Jews and zionism

Seeking their reaction to it

What will they say about him?

Will they write books and articles and hold conferences?

They didn't do anything

They totally ignored him

So much that Al-Masiri called it the conspiracy of silence

They ignore it so the project dies

Because if they confronted it

People will be eager to read it

What is it? what did he say? what are his ideas?

They will be interested in the book

Yet they ignored it

Which angered Al-Masiri greatly

But they had applied what we are advising

Confrontation doesn't apply to everything

We don't confront for the sake of it as a show of strength

Like with trivial people in the media platforms

Hosting such people might cause his triviality to spread

And sometimes, ignoring such people or ideas...

I'm trying to practically understand it even for my work

Those celebrities who depend on triviality

And those who depend on spreading bad things

Why do they become popular?

Because of our attention to them

If we didn't pay attention and ignored them

They won't be able to continue

- They might reduce too - Our attention is their fuel

Our attention is their fuel

Like a car, no matter how luxurious it is, it won't work without fuel

You must add fuel for it to work

The fuel of those is attention, without it they don't work

That's why they seek to attract your attention

So, what does he do? when he doesn't have anything positive to give to people

Then he begins doing bad deeds and making money out of anything

Out of his money or even his family

Just to get some attention

But when you talk about him to warn from him

By doing so, you promote him

He wants such attention

The matter goes back to people's evaluation in essence

Because if the evil was too widespread, we must confront it

But minor evil can end by ignoring it

That's why we must understand the philosophy of confrontation in Quran

Because it determines when you confront or ignore

In many times, you might face fake battles

Which you guarantee winning, yet you ignore them

Sometimes you have a main goal in your life

But anyone with a main goal in life and succeed in doing so

They find enemies that open up side battles

But if you'd confront each one of them

Even if you guarantee winning, it will consume your energy

It'll consume the energy you should spend on your main goal

Overtime, the side battles will become your main goal that you'd forgotten

- By being busy... - I saw that with my own eyes

I saw people who began major projects in their lives

But when confronting with their enemies

It led them to forget their main goal

Dedicating their lives to side battles

Until the age of 60 or 70 when they realize their mistakes

That's why if you don't understand the philosophy of confrontation in Quran, you'll get so tired

Nothing is easier than side battles

And nothing is more attractive than the desire to win side battles

When believe that I can win this person

Like when an official has an enemy

You can win him, but it'll take your energy

You should think about his value compared to your main project?

Then ignore him, and if his mistake didn't lead to general damage in the society

Then ignore him, especially if his damage only affected me as Naif

If he wronged me and I got the chance of revenge, I'll ignore

But if his mistake affects the public affairs

I'll face him then as this will lead to the benefit of the public

But if it was a private matter and a desire for revenge, then no

I'll ignore because if I were to take revenge from everyone, when will I be over then?

The devil also always tempts you that you're capable

And humans like to see revenge in others

If you'd offended me, I'd like to see how you will be like after...

And how to respond to you

But people should be strict about this

Because the desire of revenge is lethal

While the compass of Quran guides us to such things

As in schools, you don't discuss such topics

They're far from such things that we need in our lives

As you might burn away your whole life

And waste your only chance in life because of such mistakes

Which isn't taught in our current education system

So, we should teach kids when to confront or ignore

Because many will wrong them, should they confront all of them? no

You must know when to confront or ignore

To learn such things

Another thing that the Quranic compass guides to

Is the idea of when and how to criticize

We like criticism, it isn't a bad thing

It's important but it has its own time

Criticism is a virtue which has its own time

A virtue in the wrong time isn't a virtue

- Like how fasting is good, right? - Yes

- But fasting the day of Eid? - Not allowed

It's not allowed and wrong

Fasting is a virtue, but when it is not in its time...

It became wrong

Reading Quran, is it a virtue or not?

It is, but if read during Sujood, it isn't the time

Or during Rukoo', it isn't the right time

Criticism is the same, it's an important virtue to fix the human path

But in the wrong time it becomes negative

Such thing we learn like in the battle of the Flood

Some people used to criticize during the battle

What is the benefit by doing so?

What do you want from the fighters if they'd heard you criticizing them?

To put down their weapons? after the battle has begun?

If your criticism is that the Flood battle shouldn't have happened

You can say it after it had ended but not during the battle

We only have two options now

Either we put down the weapons and allow isreal to occupy Gaza

And displaces all of its people

Or to resist hoping to break the isreali military establishment

Let's try the second option

And we have seen how the fighters for 1.5 years

Managed to cripple the isreali military from ending Gaza

As a fighter from Gaza whether in Al-Qassam or Saraya Al-Quds

When I hear someone criticizing our battle

And how the beginning was wrong and how we should have waited

Or else wise...

I'll doubt the legitimacy of my actions

Then, I'll lose motive to resist

Then I'll put down my weapon

Allowing isreal to occupy Gaza

Which is a free defeat

That's why it is wrong to criticize during the battle

What did Allah say? "O you who have believed, when you encounter a company, stand firm"

During confrontation, nothing to be said by to stand firmly

As "Indeed, Allah loves those who fight in His cause in a row as though they are a structure joined firmly."

During the battle, standing firm is the priority

You could criticize before the battle

Many criticisms were said about the resistance in Gaza before the Flood

Many articles were written even by Islamists

And after the Flood, we must open its files too

Why so and so? even the negotiation’s phase too

Despite that we didn't provide anything for them so we can question them

But at least if that benefits them

So, criticism before and after is okay and is required

But during the battle, why criticize?

By doing so you contribute in damaging the will to resist for the fighters

You damage their motive to fight and resist

Which will lead to a free defeat

That's why we blamed who criticized during the battle

During the battle, no voice is louder than fighting

And keeping the lines until it is over, they we could talk

That's why Quran talked about each battle after it was over

After the battle of Badr was over, it discussed it

The same with the battles of Uhod and Hunain

Criticism is needed after each event

In order to learn and not repeat the mistakes

But to open the files during the battle

It is similar to aiding the enemy against our brothers

That's why Quran provides you with a compass

To know when to criticize, that's the importance of the Quranic compass

Which is what we lack in schools

When and how to criticize or confront

Even the idea of giving up

Previously, you give up if you lose hope

When there's no support, even with the Flood

What can we do then?

I see massacres happening everyday

So much that some muted anything related to Gaza

Claiming that they can't do anything about it

- Yes, some do that - I have nothing to do about it

But when reading Quran, you find that giving up isn't an option in Quran

- Not an option? - Not an option

- What about tactical withdrawal? - To give up everything isn't allowed

When Muslims in Makkah were under siege in She'b Abi-Talib

It was a tight siege that they had to eat earth's grass

You can't find a single verse that excuses the hardships and allows surrender

For a year or two until better regional or international circumstances occur

Or until a breakthrough happens or a suitable environment

Not a single verse that allows surrender

Because there's no hope

You work as much as you can "So have Taqwa of Allah as much as you can"

"On no soul doth Allah Place a burden greater than it can bear"

Work within the limits of your work

I might not be able to help with weapons or money

But I can help them with technology

I can lead media campaigns in the west

To damage the zionist narrative, so work on that

- By donating - Or I can make movies

About the atrocities of the zionist regime and promote them in the west

I can support the families of fighters

Those who fight and resist in the battlefield

They have families, right?

Some families might live outside of Gaza too

I must support and check on them

So, everyone can contribute

We might just deceive ourselves

To get rid of feeling guilt

That's why some decide to stop watching the news

Thinking that it is a smart move

By not watching the news, I'm now safe

But this is wrong according to Islam

When you have the Quranic compass

It'll tell you that there is no surrender

If you can't do level one, move to level two

And so on until you find what you can do

There are many levels of contribution

It is not that you can fight in Gaza or do nothing

There are many levels in between

- Duaa' is the weakest of faith - Yes

You must contribute at any level in everything

Even now when discussing the educational model

All establishments could ignore us

But we work in any field, as this podcast now is part of my work

Or in any other field, as some people create animation films

I sometimes see some educational content

Some people create short clips

Just do your work

But the idea of either having all means available

Like I want or I won't work, this doesn't exist in Quran

That's why it explains the hardships the Prophets went through

And the righteous people, yet they all kept working

Which is what we should have been brought up to in our childhood

Children must know there's no losing hope

- You must work in any means - As long as Allah is there

- Nothing stops you - Your job in life is to work

Giving up isn't even an option

That's why this should be part of the educational process

Let me give you another example of the Quranic compass

Despite that their endless examples regarding it

I hope to have a university subject called the Quranic compass

Where a number of professors would meet

To revolutionize the knowledge needed by humans

Or by students in order to manage their lives according to the Quranic compass

Let me give another example about the Quranic compass

Despite that there are endless examples

Like the cancel culture which is rooted within people nowadays

Once a person makes a mistake, he's cancelled

I discussed it many times before but...

In Quran, it doesn't believe in this concept

At all

People end the person's life if he made a mistake

While Quran tells us that humans begin after a mistake

If he repented to Allah

When did Adam's life begin? after the mistake

After he wronged and repented, a new life began for him

Quran tells us that repenting starts a new life

And a new chance, but people don't do that now

If you tell them that a person is good

They will respond "but he did so and so"

But he stopped doing so...

No, he still did it previously though

Even if he wrote one wrong tweet, they'll cancel him forever

Just one tweet despite a lifelong of good things?

They will remove all his good deeds because of one mistake

While Allah does the opposite

If you repent, Allah removes all of your sins

And they still dig out this mistake for you

- Which is part of this culture - They chase you to destroy you

But you shouldn't care about them

Don't give in to their attempts

People tried to destroy even the prophets

As when Pharaoh tried to destroy Musa

"And you did your deed, which you did. And you are one of the ingrates."

When he killed the Egyptian man

What did Musa reply to him? he said "I did it then, when I was in error."

Meaning that I made a mistake and Allah will forgive me, what do you have to do with it?

What did the people of Saleh say?

"O Salih, you were among us a man of promise before this"

You were important to us before bringing your message

What did Saleh reply to them with? "You would not increase me except in loss"

I'll only lose more by following you

So, don't listen to them as they can do nothing to you

Keep this fact before your eyes

No matter how hard the people tried to break you

As long as Allah had risen you, you won't fall

No matter how they try to raise you, if Allah had fallen you, you won't rise

Allah is the one who raises and drops

So, keep Allah before you

If you work according to the divine standard, don't listen to the people

No matter how bad you've wronged

No matter how much you've sinned

Make sure that at the moment you repent to Allah

All those people will have no power over you

As whom will I be confronting at the end?

The people or Allah?

Allah, so it is over

We present an episode a week, but we always say

That one episode can precede 160 or 170 other episodes

One episode might lead the people to negatively judge the whole program too

To cancel the program because of a mistake

- So be careful - Yes, that's true

But a mistake doesn't mean the end

Exactly, which encourages me

That we can...

- How many episodes have you published? - Almost 160

Okay, if in the 161st episode...

Not my episode, but the next one

If a mistake happened at that episode

What will happen? will you lose all of your good deeds?

Will all of this knowledge go in vain?

Will you lose all the good you'd provided?

If you'd kept Allah by your side, you'll be fine

Because Allah has everything kept

And nothing goes to waste

But for people's standards...

They change their minds everyday

People have no fixed standards

According to their mood

Show them respect and appreciation

But don't glorify them

Some people worship the crowds

Don't do that, yet still respect and appreciate them and their views

But they aren't your standard

Like if they asked you to bring a trivial person so you bring him

Or to follow what they want

Rather, find what benefits the people

Don't be like a trader

Traders show what the people like not what benefits them

This item isn't beneficial but people like it, so I sell it

Right? this is the logic of traders

While the intellectual and reformers don't have the same logic

I'll bring the idea that benefits people even if they didn't like it

I am not a trader to show you what you want

I'll bring you what benefits you, according to my Quranic compass and standard

Which brings us back to the Quranic compass

The standard is what benefits people

If they liked it, it's good, if not, you must insist

The prophet’s call wasn't liked by the people

That's why some prophets come alone in the judgment day

But because they didn't like it, it doesn't mean it's wrong

That's why we should fix our compass to fit with the Quranic compass

What other ideas regarding the Quranic compass?

I liked the idea of the Quranic compass

Are there more ideas regarding it?

As it is a good topic that we can go in depth with

I will try to remember now

I had written many ideas about how the Quranic compass

Really did save me

It saves you because it gives you a clear path

Okay, now I remember

The illusion of neutrality

I published a tweet several days ago

About the hero Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu-Safiya

Who stood with our people in Gaza for 1.5 years

Now he suffers all kinds of torture in the israeli prisons

I wrote a tweet about how we should support him

An academic friend from France sent me

That I'm not an activist, but an academic

And academics shouldn't intervene in such cases

Only activists or journalists should take these cases

As an academic, it isn't your job

What did he want to do? he wanted to give me a different compass

He wanted to guide me in a certain way

He wanted to create me a false status

As an academic, I shouldn't discuss the matters of my Ummah

As an academic, you're above your society's matters

But we have the Quranic compass

Allah orders you to stand with what's right

That's it

You don't set my standards for me

I have a divine compass

Even if the whole world agrees on a different compass

That opposes the Quranic compass, I won't submit to it

"You are the best community that ever emerged for humanity: you advocate what is moral, and forbid what is immoral"

But to tell me that as an academic I should stay in my office

Just aiming to publish research in magazines

Like the classified magazines as Q1 or Q2...

This isn't my purpose in life

I publish what benefits people

I'll stand with what's right if it needed me to

As much as I can

I'll do that wherever I can

If I don't support the people of Gaza because I'm an academic

Then let all academic life go to hell

After all, I must support the right as my purpose in life is to set justice

Allah gave me this mission

And everyone else is the same

"We sent down with them the Scripture and the balance that the people may maintain [their affairs] in justice"

How do you create another job for me?

It is a long story, but I mean if you have a Quranic compass

This illusion won't trick you

This illusion of neutrality, because you can't stand in between what's right and wrong

There's no middle area between them

If you don't support right, you support wrong

If you don't support justice, you support injustice

There's no middle area

That's why the American philosopher Ayn Rand in the 1950's

Has a very nice saying

She says that neutrality is a temporary stage

Afterwards, you will gradually get used to the vice

So, if you said that you have nothing to do with what's right or wrong

Overtime, in order to satisfy your conscience

You'll gradually accept the vice

You'll get used to it

So, neutrality is closer to the bad than the good?

You can't be neutral between right and wrong

If this area existed

It would have been easier

But you must stand with the right

Even if only by your heart if you couldn't speak

But to decide to be neutral towards the matters of your society

And that I only care about publishing research

This is a different story

So, if our compass is Quran, we'll aim to spread justice

Justice in universities, education

In communities, and in countries

And for individuals and families

It's a comprehensive concept for me as a successor on earth

I might not be able to do everything but I'll do what I can

I'll help with what I can

What do people fear standing with what's right?

Each has his own situation, I can't ask all people to do the same

Some have great psychological energy

That's why Allah says "Allah burdens not a person beyond his scope"

Some have psychological firmness

They could resist evil and ignore criticism

While I saw people that became sick because someone criticized them

Some people can't stand this, so keep in another field

According to your abilities, status and firmness

Some have better social status than others

Then his responsibilities will be more

When the fundamentalists spoke about the responsibilities scope

They discussed the mind and other conditions

But we must also widen such idea

Like how the Muslim's responsibility differs according to his social, political, financial and psychological conditions

According to your condition, if you had power, your duties are larger

If you don't have power and a minority

You'll have less responsibilities, according to your energy

According to your abilities

You can't treat everyone the same

You must divide people according to their conditions

As "Allah burdens not a person beyond his scope"

Find your psychological, mental, financial scope

Or socially and politically, even the countries

Their responsibilities aren't the same

A big country isn't like a small one

A threatened country isn't like a safe one

A country surrounded by regional threats

Is different than a country without threats

A rich country isn't like a poor one

A country with many challenges and minorities

Isn't like a unified country

Without internal threats

Each country or individual has a different condition

There's no generalization, but all must work as much as they could

This is the general fixed rule

So, I understand through what you said

That no one is excused today

All must work according to his available space

And the energy he can dedicate for what's right

- Right, professor? - According to the Quranic compass

Allah ordered us to do so in his Quran

So, I don't determine when to work or not

Or when to abandon a ruling or not

Quran clarified this matter

So, if we continue with the Quranic compass

Each human will work according to their abilities

This is how the Quranic compass is general to all life's fields

I mentioned many examples and I could mention even more

One other thing too is the idea of cooperation with the enemies

I used to get it mixed up

Sometimes you are enemies with some people or movements

Or countries

Yet you will sometimes work with them

What to do if you cross benefits with them?

For example, in the world cup

We were against the left

Regarding homosexuality and others

But when the Flood happened, we stood with the left against the right

While we stood with the right during the world cup

So, we turned around

And when the Syrian regime fell

The left stood against us

Because it opposed this idea

And many leftists supported Al-Asad

Then we stood against them, notice how we changed

We change according to each matter, and I don't mind that

I don't find myself contradicting

Because I stand with them as long as they support the what's right

When they abandoned it, I oppose them

Allah says "Cooperate with one another in goodness and righteousness"

Not with the good and righteous people

The other side should necessarily be good or righteous

In order to cooperate with him, as long as the mission itself is righteous

As long as it doesn't lead to bigger damage

Like legitimizing it

No, we work together on this matter

Because you're right about it

If you stray away in another matter, I'll oppose you

For example, I oppose Russia in Libya

But I support Russia in Sudan

Against Hamidti, for example

And I oppose Russia in Syria

And I oppose China about the Uygur's matter

But I can benefit from the Chinese lobbies in Europe in favor of the Palestinian cause

It's all about the different files, I might oppose in the third file but support you in the fifth file

Because here, you are with the right while here you support the evil

So, I support you on what's right and oppose you on what's wrong

This way, my compass is clear regarding treating others

While people make definite judgments

I'm against Russia in one topic then I must oppose it in everything

Even if I could benefit from Russia in another field

But no, I won't cooperate with Russia

Because I oppose it in the file number two

This has nothing to do with logic or religion

If I opposed you once, I'll burn you always

Or if I oppose the left in about the ethics

But I work with them regarding the Palestinian cause

Why ignore their efforts? rather I should benefit from them

I agree with the right regarding ethics

But oppose them regarding zionism

It's okay

Just don't legitimize them through your support

They know that you support them here because they are on the right side

As not only Muslims stand what what's right

The whole humanity support justice even if they aren't Muslims

Therefore, I support everyone who supports justice in this case

- For being a Muslim - But if they support what's wrong, I oppose them

This compass should be clear for you

Regarding cooperation with the enemies when you correspond

And this won't conflict with your religious conscience

Be at peace with it because Allah made it clear regarding this

Also, check out the matter of investing in others

In the past, you might have tried to work with everyone

But when reading Abas chapter

You'll find out that people aren't the same

People are of two types

A barren land

That doesn't produce or can be farmed

And a fertile land that produces

"When We send down upon its rain, it quivers and grows."

What does Abasa chapter say? "He frowned and turned away"

"Because there came to him the blind man" who is Ibn-Maktum

"But what would make you perceive, that perhaps he might be purified"

Didn't the Prophet turn away from him?

He might seem to him to be nothing in the society

But he might change and left the Islamic idea

So, focus with those who produce and seek goodness

"As for he who thinks himself without need, to him you give attention."

"And not upon you [is any blame] if he will not be purified."

You have nothing to do with him if he refused to purify and accept the truth

Who feels to you if he is self-sufficient and full

And doesn't accept anything more

Some think they're complete and full

Don't waste your time with barren lands

Work with the fertile lands

Some people like the truth

They like to produce and do good and are everywhere

Great young people everywhere

Dedicate your time to them

While another type of people

Their job is to hinder others and spread negativity

Through envy, jealousy and putting obstacles

Stay away from those

Don't waste your time that they might work and produce

Don't waste your time with this type as Allah advised

Don't try with them, let them be

Work with the productive people

Some people waste time with the unproductive

Rather than those who produce

They spend years trying to make them productive

While turning away from those who are ready to produce

When I read Abasa chapter, I understood it

So, I began focusing and monitoring everyone around me

I work only with those who produce

And only with those who show results

While I turn away from those who don't as life isn't long enough

So, I choose the people who want to do good

Who support what's good upon recognizing it

I will dedicate my time with this type

And I don't waste my time with the other type

I learned this from Abasa chapter

So, Quran always gives us guidance

Imagine that you spend 16 years in education

Since primary school until graduation

Then you graduate without a clear compass in your life

Isn't that unfair?

So, even the people who have some negative characteristics

You avoid dealing with them, as I understand

I don't mean all negative traits

I mean those who don't produce

Who feels like they're self-sufficient and full

Those who don't want to work

Don't waste your time there

But the people with usual negative traits

On the contrary, according to the Quranic compass

The first was about investing your time and effort

- With the productive people - Yes, regarding investing...

- Yes - And the second thing...

Regarding people with negative traits which is all of us

The traits that don't hinder him from production

Like if a person is angry or stingy

Or always comes late

Such negative traits don't oppose my idea

Which happens when a person feels self-sufficient

Which you should turn away from

But the Quranic compass guides us on how to treat people with negative traits

As Allah says "We have made some of you [people] as trial for others - will you have patience?"

Allah trails us with each other

You have negative traits

Your family has negative traits

Your colleagues have negative traits

Your friends too, everyone does

Allah put them in us to test us with each other

He said it "We have made some of you [people] as trial for others - will you have patience?"

Will you be patient towards each other?

What does patience mean?

Being patient doesn't mean accepting the negative traits

But to seek to improve them

The idea that we should get rid of who annoys us isn't correct

If my friend has negative traits, I'll be patient in helping him get rid of them

And he'll do the same with my negative traits

- So that we could integrate - But "turn away from what harms you"?

This is only if you lose hope with him

But if a person is always late, so I abandon him

Or for being stingy or else

Not all negative traits require you to abandon the people

Where is the role of reform then?

Whom will you reform if you turn away from everyone with negative traits?

So, you must work to fix others

You must attempt to fix your family, partner, friends

Collogues, business partners

You'll find negative traits which is a test from Allah

Now, when I see a negative trait in a friend, I know it is a test

Allah wants to see how I interact with such negative traits

Do I work patiently to fix them?

Or should I abandon them because of this?

If we all abandon him, who will fix him?

If you all abandoned me for a negative trait, who will fix me?

So, it isn't a correct logic to turn away from everyone with negative traits

No, we must be patient with each other as the Quran commands

"We have made some of you [people] as trial for others - will you have patience?"

We think as gulf countries that we don't lack anything

We have all financial resources

We have openness to the world

Like Qatar, Emirates, Kuwait and even Saudi too

There's openness to the world but at the same time

We lack having a project

That we might notice in the education field

But I feel like we miss an essence

Could it be this project you're talking about?

At least regarding the identity?

Currently, the identity discussion is strong in Kuwait

Also, Qatar in the world cup established the identity

So, we do have the Arab and Khaligi identity

But we haven't established it in our management of projects

What scares me in the gulf model

That I feel like there's an attempt to recreating the economic human

For humans in the Gulf to be guided by the economical aspect

You feel like everything aims to satisfy the materialistic values

Everything is about the material alone

As if modernity is exclusive to the wealth in the investment funds

Or about increasing the income per capita or about the area of skyscrapers

Or the tourist attractions and elsewise

But this is not modernity

These are signs of wealth, not modernity

And I think the officials in the Gulf

They evolve around such points

They talk about this every day in absence of the human

To develop the authenticity of the human itself

They don't begin with the human rather from materialistic standpoints

As if they were modernity which isn't true

They are indicators of wealth, not modernity

That's why we aren't developed in understanding modernity

If we thought that modernity is just in the material aspect, then this is wrong

It's dangerous as it creates the man of plunder

Who only acts according to plunder and wealth

He loves his country as long as he can plunder

He supports it as long as he can plunder

From which he plunders and benefits

But once he feels like there's a cost, he'll abandon it

By teaching me such materialistic values

Where I'm filled with such values, what do you think I'll become?

I'll become like this

When you ignore my social and cultural aspects

You wipe away my authenticity and historic roots

With the excuse of caring about economy fields

By this, you wipe away my authenticity

You don't focus on feeding me as a human

The attractive aspect in the Gulf is the social model

As when a foreign friend visits you

He doesn't get impressed by the skyscrapers

Nor by the tourist attractions

Nor by our nature

He might have seen better elsewhere

But he gets impressed when you take him to a gathering

Where he sees your friends

And your nephews

And your cousins

Who are they? why are they gathered?

Is it a wedding? no, it is just a daily gathering

They get impressed by how many gather

The social connection and solidarity

The strong social relations among the individuals

This is what the world lacks today

The world doesn't lack wealthy countries

It lacks authentic countries

With authenticity and depth

Where you feel your existence as humans belong to authenticity

They don't belong to the extravagant state that the world is driven to

What scares me about the Gulf is such transcendentalism towards economic man

And the attempts to establishing it

If we believe in the logic of establish materialism

I don't need to know the unknown to see our future

We could go to Japan and see how the establishment of materialism

Affected the Japanese society

The Japanese used the material aspect to establish the human

Look at the results now

A real state of misery in Japan

Their suicide rates exceed 20,000 cases annually

Imagine that last year, 520 children committed suicide

Where else do children commit suicide?

500 children suicided by throwing themselves in front of trains

I was puzzled about that when I visited Japan

But they'd throw themselves in front of trains to end their lives

The strange thing that I saw only in Japan

It might exist in other countries but I saw it only in Japan

There's a department of Tokyo's municipality

This department is dedicated for those who die alone without anyone noticing

Imagine that old people die in their homes

Without anyone noticing until their smell appears

Then the neighbors notice and complain

So, there's a department in the municipality that visits the elderly every month or week

To check up on them, which is a big phenomenon

Tens of thousands die alone

That's why there's a price now for properties based on death incidents

If the person died there for less than a week, the price goes down by 20%

While if the person dies there for a month or less

The price might go down by up to 50%

Because the body would decay and produce a smell

But if the person is dead for months without anyone noticing, which happens

The price goes down by 80% and the property might not get sold

Imagine that people die alone without anyone noticing for months

While here if elderly got a fever

All the relatives know about him

And they call him to wish him well-being

Everyone comes in solidarity

I dare you to find a person alone in the hospital

They don't leave you during a passing illness

Imagine dying for a month without anyone noticing

Is this the culture we'd like to achieve?

Ask the Japanese about how they got there

The materialistic tendency and considering humans as machines

To only encourage financial and economic gains

And the development of economy and increasing income

And the increase of the whole economy

After all, I'm just a human

I have a social life before anything else

I want to feel stability

I want to feel happiness

I don't want to commit suicide if I failed in my job

I have relatives that support me

And help me

Every time I face a challenge; I have who support me

If you want to create a human model that attracts the whole world

I must first work on the psychological aspect

The psychological education should be the basis

And the social and cultural education

So that everyone can see the difference

To see that this human didn't submit to modernity

Not to materialistic gains

Not evolved around himself and interests

A person who values himself and his community

And his family and values, this is the attractive model

If you want to compete in wealth, everyone is doing the same too

Like how the Norwegian sovereign fund is much bigger than ours

But look how depressed Norwegians are

And the depression rates in Sweden

The Swedes come to the Gulf or Egypt

In order to escape depression

The current indicators measure how modern a country is

According to its economic situation

But in the modern countries...

I don't feel safe when visiting them, honestly

I just came back from London a while ago

I saw all the robberies happening there

While London is considered a modern place

Compared to the Gulf countries

No one can say the Gulf is more advanced than London

Or than Britain to be specific

Except when seeing the amount of crime there today

A massive amount

So, I always ask this question

Are modern countries measured by their population and safety

By the peace you feel upon arriving there?

Or by the skyscrapers and technology it has?

- What do you think? - We now have skyscrapers and technology

The governmental service performance in the Gulf

Sometimes is better than some European countries

Now, you can finish your paperwork in the Gulf much faster than France or Britain

- This is true - The digital service in the gulf...

Is so advanced

But this isn't the question as the word modernity is dangerous

Because it is reduced to the material aspect

When you say Europeans are more advanced

Advanced in what?

Show me exactly, as they are worse than Africa in some aspects

In the industry

This is a certain materialistic aspect

Turkey is better than half of Europe in the military industry

Why don't we consider Turkey as developed?

For example...

But, look...

The Europeans excel in one main thing

Which is the sovereignty of law

Which is the most important thing

When a country has sovereignty of law

You'll be assured that you'll have your rights

But if the law itself is bad, this is another problem

But at least there's sovereignty of law

You can work and form a majority

Overtime in order to fix the law

But the problem if the law wasn't sovereign

Which is an intuitive idea in Islam

The Prophet said "If Fatima had stolen, I'd have cut her hands"

Is there any better sovereignty of law? which is found in the basics of Islam

But we've lost it now

But if you ask me about the best thing in the west

It is their sovereignty of law

This is the best thing about them

For me, when we discuss the standard for modernity or regression

I think the Omani people are more advanced than the French

- How so? - Try to live in France and Oman

I see a huge difference

In France, racism is found unjustified

Even if you hadn't done anything

Sometimes they get angry if you don't speak French

What about the cultural diversity and respect of others?

Must I speak your language so you don't get mad with me?

Go to Oman, it's a strange thing

Even with Asian nationals that people usually don't treat well

You find the upmost respect

The best way to treating others

A kind and friendly nation

A nation with very high values

Why do we look at the French people as modern?

Because in our mentality

We consider Europeans as more advanced no matter what others did

No matter what you do, even if you were richer than France

- France will stay better - But this is recent, professor

Yes, Ferguson says...

If you asked the Europeans 500 years ago if they think they'll be more advanced than other, they'd have laughed at you

They didn't think they'll be so

Which is hard to imagine today

Now we began progressing

In the Gulf populations

A great progress occurred despite the gaps

That we should work on fixing

But in many fields, the Gulf is highly advanced

This isn't my opinion but many of foreign professors we have

They seek to permanently stay in the Gulf

Because they find better advantages here

Safety is the most one

The thing foreigners mostly appreciate is safety

The safety of their daughters, siblings...

They don't find a problem here

The second is the social relations where occasions happen on a daily basis

Where we go to different occasions

So, you feel like you belong to the society

Especially with the openness

That allows others to benefit from this in the Gulf

Especially that the Gulf is an international society

As in Qatar for example

More than 80% are non-Qataris

Foreigners that came from everywhere

Some people find that to be negative

- How the Qataris are less - Yes, many do that

On the contrary, I find it to be an advantage

When you seek out experiences from all over the world

I have a complete diverse international community in Qatar

Including thousands of professors from all over the world

You can find professors in any field from any country

We tired you out, Abu-Nahar

You are welcome

- Thank you - May Allah bless you

For accepting the invitation

We'll publish this episode in Ramadan

So that people could benefit

- Thank you - You are welcome

Thanks, Muniera

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