Debate without understanding, polemic without insight: why are they so much in fashion?
- Because they are so much easier than the arduous but rewarding task of understanding, which would change our lives and our behaviour.
- Because they are spectator sports like boxing. We are there for the thrill of the knockout and the blood on the mat.
- Because we can go back to our lives afterwards and nothing has changed.
- Because they relieve us of the obligation of ‘doing’ something.
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Abdassamad Clarke is from Ulster and was formally educated at Edinburgh University in Mathematics and Physics. He accepted Islam at the hands of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi in 1973, and, at his suggestion, studied Arabic and tajwid and other Islamic sciences in Cairo for a period. In the 80s he was secretary to the imam of the Dublin Mosque, and in the early 90s one of the imams khatib of the Norwich Mosque, and again from 2002-2016.
He has translated, edited and typeset a number of classical texts. He currently resides with his wife in Denmark and occasionally teaches there.
14 May, 2023 0:03
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Dear Hajj,
Is it, a strange psychosis due to the abduntant access to information perhaps.
Beneficial knowledge prevents one from falling ill of this.
Allahu alam
Tosif
Perhaps, but it may be as old as mankind.