Brethren of Purity

23/07/2024

Nihāyat al-Ḥikmah is the second textbook of Islamic philosophy that is taught in Qum. It is a development of the earlier work, Bidāyah. A strong understanding of Nihāya and Bidāya ensures that a student can engage with advanced philosophical works such as Asfār.

22/07/2024

Born in 1929 in Āmul, Ayatullāh Ḥasanzādeh Āmulī took interest in religious disciplines from the very beginning of his life. He describes a mystical vision during his teens — a light of some kind, that guided him to study Islamic philosophy, law and mysticism. As an initiate in the Ṣadrian tradition, he promoted the sysntehsis of all knowledge into one unity; mathematics, science, religion, law, philosophy and more. Due to this, apart from philosophy and mysticism, he worked on many other Islamicate disciplines that have become understudied over time. This includes Islamicate astronomy, mathematics, astrology, occultism and more.

He is most famously known for being an exceptional editor, codicologist, philosopher and mystic. Due to studying under authorities like Ṭabāṭabāʾī and Syed Khumaynī, he was highly educated in the Ṣadrian tradition. He taught Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikm of Ibn ʿArabī and Asfār of Mullā Ṣadrā along with other works to advanced students of philosophy and mysticism. He has a highly celebrated Persian commentary on Fuṣūṣ as well. After living a long life of teaching and spirituality, he passed away on 25th September 2021. He is now buried in his hometown of Āmul, the town of his spiritual master and the mystical great, Syed Ḥaydar Āmulī.

14/07/2022

In this video, Ustadh Hasnain Naqvi explains the philosophical position on the location of God and how location can not be attributed to God.

Video Link: https://youtu.be/QOKRvgFK8DA

14/07/2022

Does God eternally create existence? Or did He create after some period of not creating?

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In this video, we explain the argument for the necessity and the eternity of Divine Action.Please Follow Brethren of Purity:Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse....

30/06/2022

Last week Ismaili academic Dr Khalil Andani defeated YouTube troll The Muslim Metaphysician in a public debate between Athari Creed (Jake) and Islamic Hikmat (Dr. Andani) on Thought Adventure Podcast. We have published a 10 Minute Highlight video summarizing their historic 2-hour debate.

https://youtu.be/sDXOgzhBT-A

This is a highlight video of the debate between Dr. Khalil Andani@Khalil Andani, PhD [Islamic Studies] and Jake - The Muslim Metaphysician Muslim Metaph...

21/05/2022

Latest news: The Muslim Metaphysician after much metaphysical deliberation has publicly declared that “God the Necessary Being has Two Hands!”

So much for the “Logical Problem of the Trinity” - here is the Logical Problem of the Salafi - how can a Necessary Being have hands? Capturing Christianity Thought Adventure Podcast

https://youtu.be/OHIWfxP-aBw

In this video, Jake finally accepts that God has two hands. Wahabis rejoice and his somewhat logical followers are shocked. So much analytic philosophy just ...

09/05/2022

There is a common misconception that Shaykh al-Akbar Ibn Arabi’s vision of Wahdat al-Wujud is pantheism - the view that all things are God. In this short talk Dr. Khalil Andani rebuts this charge and explains Ibn Arabi’s ontology based on proper sources:

https://youtu.be/wnKgxb_TwCE

In this video, Brethren explain the philosophy of Ibn Arabi. Dr. Khalil Andani cites the relevant literature from William C. Chittick and others. Please Foll...

23/04/2022

The Unconditioned Reality argument is by far the best argument for the existence of God as it draws from a rich intellectual foundation of Plato, Plotinus, Proclus, Avicenna, Khusrow and Mulla Sadra. The argument does not use a PSR - which can be questioned by some - but argued for the unconditioned reality solely out of what exist as of now and right now. So it bypasses any potential problem that might be in a cosmological, ontological or modal argument.

The argument, very simple put, is like this:

1) There is Reality.
2) If all realities are real things are conditioned upon another to be real, then reality is conditioned upon another to be real.
3) Reality can not be conditioned upon another since non-real is not real.

Conclusion: All realities are not conditioned and there is an unconditioned reality. (MT, 2,3)

To read more, please visit:

https://ismailignosis.com/2014/03/27/he-who-is-above-all-else-the-strongest-argument-for-the-existence-of-god/amp/

https://youtu.be/Y2SdH_s_9HI

https://sadrianphilosophy.wordpress.com/2019/04/27/invalidating-dawkinss-objection-to-the-uncaused-cause-argument/

21/04/2022

The Metaphysics of Ibn Arabi by Ustadh Hasnain Naqvi

Video link: https://youtu.be/7IbExuJUxto

Ibn Arabi is one of the most influential philosophers in the Islamic philosophical and mystical tradition. In this video, Ustadh Hasnain Naqvi gives an introduction to the metaphysics of Ibn Arabi.

20/04/2022

The first video in the series concerning the Introduction of Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism which explains the argument of contingency by Avicenna.

In this video, Ustadh Hasnain Naqvi explains the contingency argument of Avicenna. The Creed of the Islamic philosophers regarding the Beautiful Names of All...

20/04/2022

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20/04/2022