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lk6: Modernism And Postmodern Thought
lk22: Symbole der heiligen Wissenschaft
lk25: Book review: Sufism: The Essentials, Mark J Sedgwick
fn1: M Sedgwicks homepage on RG is problematic
5a: the significance of Tradition
lk13: Some of his most important works
fn14: a healer of humanity
lk4: From The Life Of Prophet Mohammed
fn7: Christianity of the 11th century
fn10: Descartes, 'father of rationalism'
fn13: What Muslims Also Have To Do
lk8: Notes On The New Age Movement
lk17: Descartes limited intelligence to reason
lk23: Protestant Islam by Mohammed Al-Abbasi
fn17: "We make no distinction between any ..."
fn2: The essential content of earlier religions
lk21: Islam and Christianity: Two Religions, One God; Sh. Ahmad Kuftaro
lk19: Al-Tahawî's `Aqîdah
fn3: RG analysed the Spiritists (forerunners of New Age)
lk16: Tolerant Monoteismen
lk8: Notes On The New Age Movement
lk11: Eleven False New Age Principles
fn6: De vill skapa nya religioner eller "icke-religioner".
lk11: Eleven False New Age Principles
lk15: Difference Between Spirit And Soul
lk12: see: Charles Upton; The System Of Antichrist
fn2: Islam - summit of the earlier messages
fn8: Instinctive knowledge of the Supreme Being in each human soul.
fn12: Islamic principles are clearer and based on an authentic sources.
lk3: World-religions have common core principles, bec. they are eternal.
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lk10: Why it matters which religion to follow!
3a: anti-traditional designs
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lk14: Tradition Islamique - Islamic Tradition
lk24: In the Spirit of Tradition, Sidi Nazim Baksh
fn5: human reason cannot alone lead man to Truth.
fn4: Tradition is not customs and usages, or civilisation
fn9: a primeval time when harmony existed
lk6: Postmodernist Mentality
lk1: The reason why Islam was revealed
lk5: Earlier revelations came to certain peoples only{ wa-lladhîna yuminûna bimâ unzila ilayka wa mâ unzila min qablika ... }
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lk18: Items of belief & the fundamentals of faith
"The religious laws (shara'i' ) are all lights, and the law of MuhammadAllah bless him and give him peace -
among these lights is as the sun's light among the lights of the stars:
When the sun comes out, the lights of the stars are no longer seen and their lights are absorbed into the light of the sun ..."
lk2: Ibn `Arabi on the religious lawsWhat quite a few people believe is Islam is instead often 'traditionalism', ie. customs and usages, or civilisation; (a quote by sister E. T.: "too much culture is brought into religion these days.")
Islam is fundamentally and originally Tradition - its timeless, divine message,
this is why the Islamic Tradition defines the Islamic religion, not the other way round.
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fn5. From time to time Allah sent His chosen servants, meaning His prophets and messengers to mankind, because human reason cannot alone lead man to the knowledge of Truth. This knowledge is sacred, metaphysical knowledge which transcends our sense perception or our rational thinking. Therefore it is the duty of everyone to have faith in the fact that God - Allah has really sent them.
Note 65 to sura 22:52; Mohammad K Bernström, 'Koranens budskap':
"Messengers (rasûl, pl. rusul) are mediators of revelations which include new doctrinal systems or new religious forms, whereas the term prophet (nabîy, pl. anbiyâ) refers to the one entrusted with the function of reminding people of the ethical principles which are at the base of an already existing religious system or which are common to all revealed religions."
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fn6. Furthermore there are those who would most of all like to create a new religion as an amalgam of the others. They are using among other aspects 'perennialism' to boil an anti-traditional draught. Others start "non-religions", which however are strictly hierarchical organized with 'god-like' leaders, in their malign quest to attract followers for their invented movements, for which they don't have any authority.
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fn7. Christianity of for example the 11th century is lightyears from today's form of Christianity. They don't even follow their own God-given law. So their pretention of 'loving God' is just not true. On top of this today "many Christians uncritically mix non-Christian values with (allegedly) Biblical values."
See f ex 'The Young Marriage of `Aishah' by A R Squires
at: www.muslim-answers.org
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fn8. "Instinctive
knowledge of the Supreme Being is embedded in each
human soul as an inborn part of human nature. Moreover, all peoples on earth have received divine
messengers at some time in the course of human
history or pre-history. Consequently, God and his
names are part of a universal human legacy. They are
hardly unique to anyone, nor are the Abrahamic religions
the sole residuaries of divine names expressing
the Creator's perfection and glory." p.4
www.nawawi.org
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fn9. "Numerous micro-religions (i.e. primitive
religions) commemorate a primeval time of the 'old religion,' when harmony existed between the Supreme Being and their forebears, an age of pristine happiness which was brought to an end through wrongdoing, estrangement, and alienation." p.5
www.nawawi.org
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fn10. Descartes was the real founder of "rationalism". It meant the limitation and decline of intelligence by denying intellectual intuitionen and by setting reason above everything else.
Almqvist, Kurt; I tjänst hos det Enda, Ur René Guénons verk; 1977
René Guénon expressed it in the following way:
"Modern philosophy originates with Descartes; but, the influence exerted by him ... could never have extended so far had his conceptions not been in agreement with pre-existing tendencies already largely taken for granted by the majority of his contemporaries; the modern outlook saw its own reflection in Cartesianism ...
Moreover ... a movement as conspicuous as Cartesianism ... is not spontaneous, but the product of widely diffused and inconspicuous labours; if a man like Descartes happens to be particularly representative of the modern deviation, if he can be said to incarnate it to some extent and from a certain point of view, nevertheless he is neither the only person nor the first person responsible for it and it would be necessary to look much further back to discover its origins. Similarly, the Renaissance and the Reformation, which are usually regarded as the first great manifestations of the modern spirit, completed rather than provoked the rupture with tradition ..."
p. 55
[Descartes saw the rational] facuty as the highest part of the intelligence, or even regarding it as coinciding with the whole of intelligence; it is this which constitutes "rationalism", of which [he] was the real originator. This limiting of the intelligence moreover was only a first stage; little time was to elapse before reason itself became degraded to the fulfilling of mainly practical functions ...
p. 52
Crisis Of The Modern World; René Guénon / `Abd al-Wâhid Yahya
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fn11. From the Holy Quran:
lk19: God's Oneness as stated for example in the `Aqîdah Al-Tahawi
lk26: On The Transmission And The Guarding Of The Islamic Tradition
or [lk27].
lk1 The reason why Islam was revealed
lk2 Ibn `Arabi on the religious laws
lk3 Common core principles
lk4 From The Life Of Prophet Mohammed
lk5 Earlier Revelations To Certain Peoples Only
lk6 Modernism And Postmodern Thought
lk8 Notes On The New Age Movement
lk9 The wider sense of the word 'Islam'
lk10 Is Being Muslim Necessary?
lk11 Eleven (False) New Age Principles
lk12 Charles Upton; The System Of Antichrist
lk13 Some of René Guénon's works
lk14 Tradition Islamique - Islamic Tradition
lk15 Difference Between Spirit And Soul Or Psyche
lk16 Tolerant Monoteismen
lk17 Descartes limited intelligence to reason
lk18 Items of belief & the fundamentals of faith
lk19 Al-Tahawî's `Aqîdah
lk20 Understanding The Four Madhhabs, footn. 74
lk21 Islam & Christianity: Two Religions, One God; Sh. A Kuftaro
lk22 Symbole der heiligen Wissenschaft
lk23 Protestant Islam by Mohammed Al-Abbasi
lk24 In the Spirit of Tradition, Sidi Nazim Baksh
lk25 Book review: Sufism: The Essentials, Mark J Sedgwick
lk26 On T Transmission And The Guarding Of T Islamic Tradition
lk27 Defending the Transgressed by Censuring the Reckless
against the Killing of Civilians, Sh M Afifi al-Akiti
lk28 Directions from Signposts at *LivingIslam*

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