tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9808370.post4942710972190775948..comments2024-02-12T06:21:54.290-06:00Comments on my personal Qur'an: 4:115husseinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422817645073536753noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9808370.post-2518154941947110102009-03-28T18:51:00.000-05:002009-03-28T18:51:00.000-05:00In Sha Allah we will. I always enjoy your points ...In Sha Allah we will. I always enjoy your points brother.<BR/><BR/>Husseinhusseinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08422817645073536753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9808370.post-52962397878915964972009-03-28T16:52:00.000-05:002009-03-28T16:52:00.000-05:00Thanks a lot Hussein. Your reply is very helpful.W...Thanks a lot Hussein. Your reply is very helpful.<BR/><BR/>What you have said about “We may never learn the mechanisms of the self, but it exists and we use it all the time,” is very true and meaningful. <BR/><BR/>Insha Allah we will have oportunity to correspond about this more in the future.A. Muhammad Ma`rufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11377946396127123926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9808370.post-11739909089330908862009-03-28T12:46:00.000-05:002009-03-28T12:46:00.000-05:00Thank you brother for your deep and thoughtful poi...Thank you brother for your deep and thoughtful points.<BR/><BR/>The aspects about honesty that you shared about oneself are important and true. We may never learn the mechanisms of the self, but it exists and we use it all the time.<BR/><BR/>Another aspect of that honesty is how we deal with commands or statements (from the Qur'an and elsewhere) that challenge us or challenge what we accept as truth. The honesty with oneself suggests that we consider three possibilites:<BR/><BR/>1- Either we misunderstood what is actually being told to us.<BR/><BR/>2- Or that we need to reinvestigate what we accept as truth whether it is really truth or not.<BR/><BR/>3- the mix of the above two.<BR/><BR/>So, when a statement of the Qur'an goes against "the norm of the time or of the self", one needs to restudy to see if he or she misunderstood that statement or some aspect of it. The other thing is that he or she will also need to reconsider "the norm of the time or self" is it based on truth? or mere bias that was adopted as truth?<BR/><BR/>Related to Jahannam, you are probably right that it may not necessarily point to water at the bottom of the well, but it can be present. If we dig too deep in the earth's crust, we will reach great heat at the bottom. However, the other name Hell points to fire, ANNAR= the fire. There are also some hadeeths that point that Hell has areas of extreme cold. <BR/><BR/>I hope this helps and take care brother.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Husseinhusseinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08422817645073536753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9808370.post-89653777136695193232009-03-28T06:39:00.000-05:002009-03-28T06:39:00.000-05:00Salaam `aleikum brother Hussein.1. I like your Per...Salaam `aleikum brother Hussein.<BR/><BR/>1. I like your Personal Note about being “honest with ourselves once we discover the right path”, very much. The right path I may have found may not be a complete right path that applies to everyone else. But to me and my situation, it seems right, after many experiments with trying to apply it. I can also see that it is an improvement over other paths that others and I have followed previously.<BR/><BR/>I have no right to try to impose it on others, but I should try to make the theory and practice of it better. However, all such work has to be grounded in a logically and philosophically sound hypothesis about the nature of the human self. <BR/><BR/>Trying to be honest with ourselves involves two kinds of study. One is about the nature of honesty. The other is about the nature of the human self. These are both difficult subjects to study. And the Qur`an alone does not have the answer to all modern questions about them. However, it is a very good, and sometimes necessary guide.<BR/><BR/>Regarding another issue: In the concrete image explanation for “Jahannama” you have said that it refers to a female (principle, entity?) and that it indicates something like a well. I assume that by a well we mean a hole that is made on a surface, like a crater. It can be just a dark crater, i.e. we don’t know what is inside it.<BR/><BR/>In other explanations, I have read and heard about Hell being a hole like a pit. I.e. it does not carry the water bearing connotations of the word “well”. It is also said that it is an area full of blazing fires. Is the fire imagery not a necessary part of the meaning of jahannama?<BR/><BR/>Thank you very muchA. Muhammad Ma`rufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11377946396127123926noreply@blogger.com