Challenging The New Era Of Human Mind's Blunders

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

The Road to Destruction


When Imam Muhammad Ghazzali wrote his famous book - Tahafut al-Falasifa - as a counter attack to the heart of Islamic Philosophy - away from all of his other challenging works - the belief that philosophy can never ever have a fundamental and basic relationship with Islam became strong and then powered with a theory resource that has used the same terminology of philosophers this time.
He has not just answered the doubts provoked by Ibn Sina and Farabi, but simultaneously proved that for challenging a philosophical concept you have to be a philosopher and use their own terminology to be known and to be analyzed by others, even if you cannot believe in those axioms and logic relations between the phenomena in that specific system. This paradox proved itself that one cannot criticize a system without accepting its own metaphysics, regardless of how it may be in the opposite of his own limits and faith.


The danger arises right here! If you study to be a philosopher to challenge their ideas or to deny them, you may never get back to your original state. Because of many theories and confusing ideas in different lines of study you may loose your self-confidence and retire your mind by believing in one of those which you study or even create your own collage of philosophical concepts to rest your mind a bit. It's not over yet! Even if you do not confuse this way, as long as you are in that system you no further can criticize that. You may find paradoxes or you may feel and fill the gaps, it's just enlightening and improving the stability and reliability of the system and not criticizing. The more the system is fundamental to the main branch of sciences – because of its applicability – the hard it will be to challenge.


If the first case happen or if in the second case you know somehow that your rule as a critic is over, you'll have no energy at all to challenge the system; you'll become a part of its history. May be the main reason to invent a new philosophical system - especially an axiomatic theory of concepts - is to rest the mind in its own house of cards.
No more you'll be able to challenge yourself in that system. You have just created your own paradise and as Hilbert mentioned once about Cantor's Set Theory nobody can throw you out of it. You enjoy your peace within your philosophy. The challenge is over. Either your system remains for a thousand years or it fades and disappears as many other systems did in a decade or so, you simply would destruct your own faith and would forget your primary goal. If you try a counter play and decide even to challenge your own system your mind will resist. It will not deal its peace with any possibility to grow. All your planes will turn to scribbled lines and this time you declare war against your inner self. You declare war to defend your faith but your mind resists, it consumes your energy to fight you.
I can compare this horrible possibility to HIV virus infection. Your mind situation can be compared to a low battery laptop that has hanged for a while. If you try to turn it off, it's suicidal and in the best case can lead to madness. If you try to let it be, it'll torture you and at last if you decide to restart it, the batteries will run out!


So I pray to Allah by using the words in Koran:
"On no soul doth Allah Place a burden greater than it can bear. It gets every good that it earns, and it suffers every ill that it earns. (Pray :) "Our Lord! Condemn us not if we forget or fall into error; our Lord! Lay not on us a burden Like that which Thou didst lay on those before us; Our Lord! Lay not on us a burden greater than we have strength to bear. Blot out our sins, and grant us forgiveness. Have mercy on us. Thou art our Protector; Help us against those who stand against faith."
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