Grounded - Part 3: The Battle of Epistomologies | Imran Hussein

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[@Reewnat]

Jazakallah khayr for your and others trying to address and teaching this knowledge, framework, etc. These are things our youth and adults are combatting and some are falling victim too. Just as the Prophet (sallahu alayhi wasalaam) always was knowledgeable of all sciences and knowledges (e.g. military, rhetoric, poetry, political, etc) and encouraged us to seek knowledge from wherever, these are also needed for our current circumstances. Allah knows best.

[@sajid279]

Please discuss Analytical Idealism of Bernardo Kashtrup...using conciousness to know the divine/universal conciousness

[@کٲشر-ذ1ع]

Mashallah ❤️

[@ULTRAYOLET]

When will the next episode be launched?

[@user-8ng1ize]

14:09 the idea that postmodernism is a repackaging of Marxism is absolutely absurd. If the speaker knew even the tiniest bit about postmodernism, he would realize it is absolutely opposed to Marxism- considering it as placed among classical philosophy. Marxism is materialist, it believes in objective truth, and in communism. Postmodernism accepts absolutely none of these things. If you were to compare it to a worldview, it would be best compared with anarchism. I am not religious. But if you are religious, you should oppose Marxism because it is materialist. However, if postmodernism is Marxism, nearly anything else can be Marxism. Maybe the speaker doesn’t understand this, but Marxism originated in the 19th century. It’s far older than postmodernism, and not related to it. Don’t draw ridiculous and spurious connections without at least citing some source. The speaker said some have argued it. I’d love to know which person argued it so I can see what they actually are saying.

[@user-8ng1ize]

Marx did in some sense present his ideas as social science. His ideas did come true: capitalism gave rise to communist revolutions. Regardless, the very fact that as 14:26 notes, he saw his work as science, *absolutely disqualifies* Marxism from being postmodernist, because postmodernism hates calling its own worldview scientific! It also hates worldviews which consider themselves scientific. Postmodernism is a reaction to this sort of worldview, and it actually builds on top of modernism. It’s a reaction to materialism, and to certain forms of idealism, while it’s more friendly to very specific kinds of idealism. In this sense, postmodernism is far more friendly to religious beliefs than Marxism ever could be! The difference is that Marxism is opposed to religion, viewing it as akin to a drug, and thinking it arises from systems of oppression, and that religion-based social orders or political theologies are some of the oldest and most persistent forms of ruling class ideology. Marxists have wrote volumes in this topic. Whereas postmodernists have written against religion, but have also written in favor of it, and would consider the Marxist viewpoint on religion as fundamentally wrong and stemming from an older form of thinking which postmodernism believes it abrogated.

[@user-8ng1ize]

14:56 this is made up. Sorry to say. Marx thought that the middle class would not necessarily ‘dwindle down’, rather, he said that it was a ‘force which bears down upon and feeds upon’ (paraphrasing some of his notes) the working class. There is no reason to think that a middle class is predicted to disappear from Marxism. As I said, Marxism predicts one important thing, which is that capitalism gives rise to working class revolutions, which will try to transition to communism. He actually even wrote this in a letter to Joseph Weydemeyer. He said his fundamental discovery was just that 1. Capitalism is a historically situated thing, 2. It gives rise to communist revolution where the working class takes over 3. When they do, they are going to try to transition to a classless society, and this is the essence of the communist revolution. So what he said was in part predictive: capitalism will give rise to communist revolution. And it was in part descriptive: he said capitalism is historically specific, and he said that communist state aka ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ means transition to a classless society. So, from this we know that there will be working class revolutions which will be communist, that this comes from the historically specific thing which is capitalism, which has contradictions which give rise to those revolutions. With regard to the assertion that the working class shrunk, that is absolutely ridiculous. The speaker must be thinking about in a particular country with specific conditions, in a short period of time? In the world scale, the working class has obviously grown. If he would name his people from whom he got these allegations, then I could check it. Frustrating work.

[@ImranHussein]

Around 15:30 I clearly outline that 'some academics' suggest that postmodernism is Marxism repackaged. You have misconstrued my position.

[@matishakabdullah5874]

The issue here is that there are people "so called and claimed themselves intellectuals" applying "philosophical/kalamiah" rational axioms and arguments to prove and to believe in god existence! This one of the today Ummah problems; the problem of "appealing to false authority" - "false intellectuals"! The truth is that the Islamic aldeen affair, after the Prophet SAW period, should have always being in the true Salafiah hand - Iman Al-Mujaddid!

[@Latifa_Mak]

Is this live?

[@saamady]

No, it's a premiere. It gets uploaded as a live video, which lets people type in the chat and discuss live, but its all pre-recorded.

[@scholarforpeace]

This world is NOT a "godless" world. It is very arrogant and stupid to claim such a claim while preaching about Islam. God is still the Only God of this world.

[@ULTRAYOLET]

The point is people ACT "godless"

[@FieldMarshalRommel23]

I am a Christian native European and we have always been though in our schools of the contribution of Muslims to science etc. particularly the Islamic golden age. You act like we don’t acknowledge this when we call the numbers we use Arabic numerals. Please respond to this.

[@Reewnat]

Thanks for the question. In my experience here in America, the contributions of other non-US/European nations are not referenced or barely get a mention. There may be some schools in particular at the university level that may be better, but overall, advancements are not mentioned, under-mentioned/emphasized in favor of Western ones or worse usurped to say that Europeans invented such and such.

[@zb6391]

In the UK it is barely mentioned at all (from my experience when I was at a school) for kids/teens up to 16 years old.

[@FieldMarshalRommel23]

@ al gebra, al cohol, al gorithym etc. they’re all Arabic words.

[@scholarforpeace]

It would have been better for you to preach Islam rather than to preach atheism and what atheists believe or think. When God says: "You will not be questioned for those who will inhabit hellfire." This should have been reflected upon. Do not preach their ideologies while neglecting your own faith and the actual truth. There is a God and His Name is Allah. Do not say that there isn't or that this world is a godless world. Had it been "godless" as you say, it would have immediately crumbled. But God sustains and maintains it all the time.

[@tkurd8472]

If you can’t say anything positive why make these ridiculous comments? What a bitter and negative person you are.

[@matishakabdullah5874]

Book of philosophy or human kalamiah rational is an epistemology of ignorance (jahiliyah)!

[@sajid279]

When you don't understand you judge... Jahilliya is not able to understand