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Ideas about modern issues from an Islamic perspective. Those posts which were written with the help of GenAI have been spun off into a separate blog as have the posts which contained a semantic field analysis of the Qur'an.

The pinned entries in this blog are longer and articles and unpinned articles are much shorter and the latter may likely be works in progress. The longer articles are followed by a ChatGPT critique to help identify areas for future improvement.

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Ethics

Satan's slipstream or the good in evil

[Originally posted in 2021, updated with a summary and small corrections. Further additions in 2024, with references to Oppenheimer and supporting quotations. Image added 2nd June 2025] Summary Good people can focus on doing good. Bad people who are motivated by the nafs can be told of the harms in engaging in it, but it's likely that they will persist. Sometimes however evil leads to some positive outcomes - good people can benefit from these, while still maintaining the wrongfulness
Haji 2003

Haji 2003 in Ethics

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Ethics

Unintended consequences of veganism

[This blog was first written in 2018 and has been updated] A vegan professor writes https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/07/scientific-self-experiment-vegan-diet-meat-diet The vegan position in a nutshell Raising animals to be eaten is cruel Killing animals prematurely is cruel And there are environmental issues as well My counter-vegan proposition The cruelty arises in terms of how the animals are raised - there can be humane m
Haji 2003

Haji 2003 in Ethics

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