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Episode 03: Removing Harm
Sometimes we are stuck on quantifying our faith and assuming that more is better. This mindset omits the basic fact that Islam is meant to make its practitioners happy. One of the main principles of Islam is that harm is to be removed at every step. This facilitates an easy practice of Islam, rather than a difficult one. This, ultimately, is our goal.
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Understanding the Muslim Mind
If we could take all of Islamic intellectual history, what sort of patterns and principles could we deduce? More importantly, if we found someone who actually knew all this information, what would they look like, think like, talk like, etc.?
What is Usuli Islam?
In The Clock of the Long Now, Stewart Brand argues that religion is one of the most durable institutions of civilization that helps ground us all in timeless values. In his concept of the forces of innovation (rapidly changing) and durability (slow changing) of civilization, religion would definitely be amongst the more slow adapting forces.
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