Episode 6

Part 1 - The Involuntary Journey: Imam al-Haddad's The Lives of Man

In this episode we look at how some of the scholars of our rich, intellectual tradition have conceptualized existence and understood its parts to contain anywhere from one to 100,000 levels of being!

We then read selected parts of Imam al-Haddad's book The Lives of Man, in which the Involuntary Journey is understood to be comprised of five key stages of existence.

Our aim is to further strengthen our foundation of the Involuntary Journey in Surah al-Fatihah and Straight Path worldview, and build upon it with some detail and new levels of understanding.

This is essential knowledge for anyone concerned with developing a sound Quranic worldview and grounding themselves in a universal, holistic Islamic scholarly perspective.

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Left or Right? The Straight Path Please
An overview, analysis and critique of contemporary left and right wing ideologies from the perspective of the Qur’anic Straight Path metaphor and the Islamic scholarly and spiritual tradition. For women listeners only.

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MISK Women

Umm Abdullah is the developer of MISK Women at the Muslim Institute for Sacred Knowledge and is a student of the Islamic Scholarly and Spiritual Tradition. She presents podcasts, Zoom classes and courses focusing on developing English-speaking Muslim womens' textual competence through the engagement of sacred texts and contextual competence through analysis and critique of the modern world from an Islamic perspective.