If Allah so wills, the next podcast on The Foreword channel will cover the nature of reality, and it will be a follow up of this podcast:
It will also be an elaboration of this discussion as well as this post.
And with Allah alone is every success.
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Man's Creation and the Theory of Evolution
UPDATE: The podcast is now available:
Related:
Man's Creation and the Theory of Evolution
UPDATE: The podcast is now available:
Assamualikum
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can you give a brief explanation of iran's political system.If they got better foothold or result than us Sunnis in establishing governance.
I don't have the knowledge so I dommwant to mis judge the situation.
Wa alaykum Assalaam,
ReplyDeleteI would highly recommend that you listen to the series '13 Centuries of Islamic History':
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheReasons4Faith/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=5
The earlier episodes will illustrate how governance is established in Islam, who the authorities are and so forth. If my memory serves me correctly, Iran is mentioned in Week 13. The Iranian 'wilayat al-faqeeh' system is stolen from Sunni Islam.
There's also an article on this blog called 'Authority in Islam'.
As for Iranian Shi'ites "getting a better" foothold, it is the very nature of cults, because they are minorities, to be rather compact and organised. That's the first point. Secondly, the theory of a governing system is quite not the same as its practice. The Sunni model works; it fails when people fail, i.e. corruption and greed enter people's hearts and things fall apart. It worked under the Khulafa Rashidun, it worked under Umar ibn Abdul Aziz, it worked under Salahuddin al-Ayubi, and there are several other examples. Imam Muhammad Saeed Ramadan al-Bouti discusses this in his book The Approach to Human Civilisation in the Qur'an, the translation of which will be published shortly insha'Allah. You can see this article in the meantime:
http://mahdinnm.blogspot.com/2017/09/civilisation-preliminary-discussion.html
As a third and final point, and Allah knows best, I think we will learn over the coming years about who really runs and controls Iran, and who really put that regime into power.
And with Allah alone is every success.