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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.

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Rationality

Information that is easy to understand vs. what is useful

Summary This post is about the reasons why there is so much imperative in the Qur'an on sellers not taking advantage of their customers. The point being elaborated here is that it can be easy for sellers to take advantage of their buyers. The Qur'an uses a specific context (weights and measures) but this notion can be extended to other areas of the transaction. We can lump together all sorts of decisions that we make every day. Amongst other things, these can be decisions about:
Haji 2003

Haji 2003 in Rationality

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Rationality

Give me the evidence and I'll believe

The imperative for proof An often heard comment about Muslim scholars in the past few decades has been that they need to express their thoughts in terms of science and proof. Because the yoofs of today are more 'educated' than their forebears and they have a higher standard of proof against which to measure what they hear from the pulpit. People need proof about the importance of hijab and they want proof about the benefits of circumcision (I thought I should put in the latter for gender eq
Haji 2003

Haji 2003 in Rationality

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