At what point do you stop asking questions and think that man’s understanding of the world is limited to the limits of human reason, by far imcomparable to Allah’s reason.
And is it likely to cause you to seek easy answers to questions that you’re afraid of because they niggle at some part of your faith?
For me, this is a philosophical question, not necessarily a religious one.
The murder of rationality is committed at the hands of unknowns.
Why must we be constrained to adopt blind faith? And if we adopt blind faith, why is one better than the other?
isnt conversion then just whatever happens to be spiritually appealing at that point based on your life experiences? You seek to evade the hollowness of western materialism, you embrace Islam. You seek to escape from rigidly enforced bounds in your home you rebel against it and become apostate. Just mentioning the stereotypes here.
In both cases, it could be argued that neither represents the true spirit of that faith, creed, social system, what-have-you. On an objective level, both demand a certain level of ‘i dont know but what the hey’, and its irrelevant to ask which has more of it IMO.
Personally, I think that its very important to remember Allah no matter how may questions we have from a philosophical point of view.Its true that we can only understand based on what we have experienced, or know so far in our lives.But I dont believe that we shouldnt question the world, just because we're afraid it might affect our faith in a negative manner.One has to learn about it, and having a lot of faith to start with is the key.Only then is it alright to dig deep, because no matter what we question, we always have that ultimate faith inside of us.Going beyond the limit would be when people start to question Allah and his word, not to understand --- but to contradict Him.
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Personally, I think that its very important to remember Allah no matter how may questions we have from a philosophical point of view.Its true that we can only understand based on what we have experienced, or know so far in our lives.But I dont believe that we shouldnt question the world, just because we're afraid it might affect our faith in a negative manner.One has to learn about it, and having a lot of faith to start with is the key.Only then is it alright to dig deep, because no matter what we question, we always have that ultimate faith inside of us.Going beyond the limit would be when people start to *question Allah and his word, not to understand --- but to contradict Him.
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Very well said, but let me go a step further: once a certain field has been explored using certain techniques/methods etc.......are we allowed -in a later stage- to come back to this field and start quesitoning it again. A few reasons: the results you obtained previously start niggling at you and you want a more thorough understanding than you already have.....or you have other/better methods/techniques that have been developed and you want to use them in this field. Is it allowed to come back to such a field...or is questioning this field for ever closed cuz it has been already done years ago?
Man is limited to the knowledge he carries but knowledge itself it not limited.
Using ration we can still reach the conclusion that there is a Creator and His name is Allah and that the Prophet Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.
Many people are using 'faith' as a hiding place or a place of refuge when the questions become too tough and instead of exerting ourselves we say it is beyond our understanding.
We know we are limited in our thinking and more precisely that our thinking is limited to the three: Man, Life and the Universe but we do not know what this limit is. A hundred years ago who would have thought that we would reach the moon.