Truly an underrated scholar. I was fortunate enough to get ahold of some of his works.

He has this one book on kalām and philosophy that goes in depth on the topic of the human intellect. The book was published in 1995, before kalām was revived by the more famous contemporaries.

“WE CAN’T [insert basic agreed upon Islamic ruling] BECAUSE IT BECOMES AN OBSTACLE FOR DAʿWAH IN THE WEST!”

The western “Daʿwah”:

“However, Tashkoprüzade (d. 962 AH / 1554 CE) pointed out the necessity of distinction, with regards to the objective, between ʿilm al-kalām and falsafa. The mutakallim, he relies on what has come in the religion in terms of beliefs, then seeks rational proofs to support them. The philosopher seeks with his mind [first], and sees what he has reached in terms of evidences without looking at what has come in the religion. The mutakallim believes then proves, and the philosopher proves then believes."

— al-Insān wal-ʿAql, Pg: 75

How’s your throat, Charlie?

#CharlieSquirt 😵🩸

“It may be observed by one who studies epistemological philosophy among Western philosophers in general that they did not depart from two paths in their inquiry into knowledge: the Platonic rationalist path and the Epicurean empiricist path. Whatever they added—here and there—amounted to no more than explanation and clarification, or limited attempts to fill the gaps they had noticed in Greek philosophy. Yet, they failed—just as their predecessors had failed before them—to present a comprehensive conception regarding the mind, its method of thinking, and the acquisition of human knowledge—from its beginning, through its course, and to its end.”

— al-Insān wal-ʿAql, Pg. 107

There are these widespread distortions that claim that one is only a kāfir if they:

1) Hear all about Islām in detail and THEN outright reject it.

2) Reject Islām after KNOWING that it is true.

Both of these positions are kufr.

الجامع لاحكام القران (تفسير القرطبي) ، ٥/٧٦ ، ط. الرسالة العالمية

Someone sent this in a WhatsApp group-chat… 😂