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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

Surfacing Satan

[originally posted on December 29, 2024, AI generated summary added on 1st June 2025, AI generated image added 2nd June 2025] Summary The essay argues that conventional gain-loss calculations, suited to trade or war, overlook intangible consequences that ultimately shape reality. In the current Middle-East upheaval, material metrics—casualties, territory, political control—obscure a parallel, spiritual ledger. Crisis strips away rhetorical masks, exposing genuine beliefs and motives: a
Haji 2003

Haji 2003 in Ethics

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Ethics

Could vs. should

Jurassic Park Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park says "You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you never bothered to ask if you should." Are changing attitudes towards transgenderism a function of technology? Would it be a fair assessment of human history to say that whenever we have developed the capability to do something we have, and whether or not we should has not really stopped us? The current debates around transgenderism reflect this, I think. It's more than a c
Haji 2003

Haji 2003 in Ethics

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