Higher Education for a Higher Purpose

we're living in a time where people associate Boko Haram with Islam we're living at a time when people don't think of Imam al-ghazali or Fabien or Ozzie or all of these great giants of went before us they think of ignorant people and they and many too many people believe that this is Islam and that's why we're here that's what this is about this is about restoring the centrality of knowledge to our religion the centrality of knowledge to our religion education doesn't just educate the intellect know education is a much more dynamic and holistic integrity thing it's an integrative process that helps to integrate the various parts so if an education does not have anything to do with the spirit of the human being if it has nothing to do with the psyche of the human being then it's not according to Mark Van Doren really education this course is to help them map the next four years of their education and to think really deeply about what it is that this whole Zaytuna curriculum does and will do and what they what they will do with it this reading has me on the verge of tears and it was after reading this quote and it ties back to what it was that you had just said in reference to the works that we've been engaged in up until this point they've challenged us you know spiritually they challenged us intellectually they challenged me and was I've never been challenged before but mark van Doorn later on goes to say that the main thing is that there are powers within the person which liberal education and only liberal education can treat for use and you know this might not be much to you guys but in that a lot to me I've never really been able to tap into the side of me that that this course and that this school has allowed me to tap into nada que ver con la hora de genève say Torah total are being like in ha - Miren but I mean about reality - ah fie what a mere Oh Madonna I made me Harvey ah slow and cuddly Cyril lighter Davi hunky he the essence right the this hot the foundation the basis of the divine decree is God's secret within creation this is aa secret you know how is it that I can choose on my own accord but that's in perfect harmony and alignment with a pre-eternal decision God's pre-eternal decision it's a secret it's a lost secret and we cannot were not privy to it we do not have access to that but the mind has limits and this is well beyond the limits of the human intellect you have to do such that with the cutter does that make sense the mind has to make us such that after taking theology 1 and theology two it makes complete sense by comparative religions is the third thing that you take because you get to get theology want the ology to to gain a strong grounding your own beliefs and then taking now taking that and running with it and then studying but Hinduism and Confucianism and Jainism and Taoism and Christianity and Judaism you really realize how similar a lot of them are but how unique your own tradition is I can look at these other traditions I can take whatever wisdom I need but at the same time be strong in my own in my own faith man as an angelic being so let's say manage an angelic being when you would say no it isn't no is it no no it isn't say yes it is well obviously you're not gonna solve that you're not gonna resolve that argument there on the street but you will say that no human being is an angelic creature so what are you doing you're saying absolutely no member of the species man right is an angelic creature so you're separating absolutely separating the predicate angelic creature from the concept man this whole idea of being a better person or a vendor individual or refining our souls it's not just in Islam it's in so many other traditions that came before and I think because like we just don't you don't we're not exposed to it and so I think it's amazing because that's where you get your philosophy classes where your philosophy class comes in that's where your logic class comes in all the Western tradition is so important because it's there it's similar to our tradition I think that's saying a lot is that we don't just reject things that we don't know because you don't know what could be in that that is good for you so many questions I have about certain things you know Western philosophy doesn't have the answers to but if you understand Aleta if you understand the Islamic scholarly tradition of theology and you understand those arguments then all of a sudden some of those questions that were so perplexing before now you have a clear answer and it's not like it's a dogmatic answer it actually makes sense rationally the most important and difficult thing is to continue to preserve the authenticity of your Islamic roots and I would not mean only by that the daily prayers that's very very important of course I do not mean by that only Islamic ethics that's also very very important but I mean by that also to preserve a mental ambience which is Islamic in which the realities of Islam can be breathed if we don't have committed knowledgeable and fearless Muslim youth we don't have Islam we have some perversion of Islam so this is the torchbearer here is a tuna let there rise among you write a group enjoining good and forbidding wrong and let them start here they start here in Zaytuna and then they spread so that's the to me the ultimate benefit of say tuna is that it it is a vehicle for sustaining the life of the human spirit

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Length: 7min 26sec (446 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 26 2015