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https://quranx.com/Hadith/Bukhari/USC-MSA/Volume-3/Book-39/Hadith-517
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "While a man was riding a cow, it turned towards him and said, 'I have not been created for this purpose (i.e. carrying), I have been created for ploughing." The Prophet (ﷺ) added, "I, Abu Bakr and `Umar believe in the story." The Prophet (ﷺ) went on, "A wolf caught a sheep, and when the shepherd chased it, the wolf said, 'Who will be its guard on the day of wild beasts, when there will be no shepherd for it except me?' "After narrating it, the Prophet (ﷺ) said, "I, Abu Bakr and `Umar too believe it." Abu Salama (a sub-narrator) said, "Abu Bakr and `Umar were not present then."
https://quranx.com/Hadith/Bukhari/USC-MSA/Volume-5/Book-57/Hadith-15
Narrated Abu Huraira: I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) saying, "While a shepherd was amongst his sheep, a wolf attacked them and took away one sheep. When the shepherd chased the wolf, the wolf turned towards him and said, 'Who will be its guard on the day of wild animals when nobody except I will be its shepherd. And while a man was driving a cow with a load on it, it turned towards him and spoke to him saying, 'I have not been created for this purpose, but for ploughing." The people said, "Glorified be Allah." The Prophet said, "But I believe in it and so does Abu Bakr end `Umar."
Muslims are obligated to believe this is all true.
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books-by-gauss · 1 month
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anglocatholicboyo · 5 months
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When reading the Qur'an, the most important thing a Christian should keep in mind is that it is not of God, but only purports to be of God.
"But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed."
The New Testament was written by the closest followers of Jesus, and it affirms his divinity (John 10:30; Matthew 16:16-17) and his crucifixion (Matthew 26-27, Mark 14-15, Luke 22-23, John 12-19).
The Qur'an is attributed to one man, 600 years later, hundreds of miles away from where the events of the Bible took place. I think it is not credible.
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coreofthebible · 8 months
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The Biblical Calendar and Yom Teruah, the Day of Trumpets
Core of the Bible podcast #117 – The Biblical Calendar and Yom Teruah, the Day of Trumpets Lately we have been reviewing some of the bigger key doctrines in the Bible. However, for today and the next several weeks, we will be returning to the biblical calendar as we are, at the recording of these podcasts, about to enter the fall season of the biblical year. But before we jump into the first of…
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amereid1960 · 11 months
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المقاصد الأخلاقية والإجتماعية لضوابط الاستثمار في الاقتصاد الإسلامي - دراسة نظرية
المقاصد الأخلاقية والإجتماعية لضوابط الاستثمار في الاقتصاد الإسلامي – دراسة نظرية المقاصد الأخلاقية والإجتماعية لضوابط الاستثمار في الاقتصاد الإسلامي – دراسة نظرية المؤلف: عصام عمر مندور كلية التجارة جامعة كفر الشيخ المستخلص: هدفت الدراسة الى التعرف على ضوابط الاستثمار الإسلامي بشكل عام وتحديد ما هو أخلاقي منها وما هو غير ذلك، ثم محاولة استنباط المقاصد الاخلاقية والاجتماعية من الضوابط غير…
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alewaanewspaper1960 · 11 months
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المقاصد الأخلاقية والإجتماعية لضوابط الاستثمار في الاقتصاد الإسلامي - دراسة نظرية
المقاصد الأخلاقية والإجتماعية لضوابط الاستثمار في الاقتصاد الإسلامي – دراسة نظرية المقاصد الأخلاقية والإجتماعية لضوابط الاستثمار في الاقتصاد الإسلامي – دراسة نظرية المؤلف: عصام عمر مندور كلية التجارة جامعة كفر الشيخ المستخلص: هدفت الدراسة الى التعرف على ضوابط الاستثمار الإسلامي بشكل عام وتحديد ما هو أخلاقي منها وما هو غير ذلك، ثم محاولة استنباط المقاصد الاخلاقية والاجتماعية من الضوابط غير…
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sins-of-the-sea · 11 months
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//...Do I tag Taoist beliefs under [religion tw]? Honest to God question.
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What do you think about the experiment where pastors asked chatgpt to write a sermon? Is this a good thing, bad thing, or somewhere in between?
Among sermon writers, there is fascination – and unease – over the fast-expanding abilities of artificial-intelligence chatbots. For now, the evolving consensus among clergy is this: Yes, they can write a passably competent sermon. But no, they can’t replicate the passion of actual preaching.
“It lacks a soul – I don’t know how else to say it,” said Hershael York, a pastor in Kentucky who also is dean of the school of theology and a professor of Christian preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Sermons are meant to be the core of a worship service — and often are faith leaders’ best weekly shot at grabbing their congregation’s attention to impart theological and moral guidance.
Lazy pastors might be tempted to use AI for this purpose, York said, “but not the great shepherds, the ones who love preaching, who love their people.”
A rabbi in New York, Joshua Franklin, recently told his congregation at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons that he was going to deliver a plagiarized sermon – dealing with such issues as trust, vulnerability and forgiveness.
Upon finishing, he asked the worshippers to guess who wrote it. When they appeared stumped, he revealed that the writer was ChatGPT, responding to his request to write a 1,000-word sermon related to that week’s lesson from the Torah.
“Now, you’re clapping — I’m deathly afraid,” Franklin said when several congregants applauded. “I thought truck drivers were going to go long before the rabbi, in terms of losing our positions to artificial intelligence.”
My main question is, what's the difference? I don't mean that in just a snarky way, but legitimately. What is the metaphysical difference between a sermon produced by a human and a sermon produced by ChatGPT? How do you detect "soul" or "not-soul"? How do you measure "soulness"? How do you distinguish between the divine effectiveness of a sermon generated by A.I. from a human-authored one? If we did a blind study - putting together, say, a dozen sermons with a mix of human and A.I. - could the clergy tell the difference?
I previously posted about black Americans leaving Xianity, and one of the examples given by an ex-Xian was:
The last time I went to a church it was a lovely and inspirational sermon until the pastor started disparaging gays for absolutely no reason. Even at my grandfather’s funeral, the pastor there managed to blame gays for the state of the world. Just random unnecessary hate.
What is the metaphysical distinction between a nasty magic spell written by a human and a nice magic spell written by an A.I.? Which one does "god" choose to ignore? Either? Both? How do you tell?
I've said before that if any of the gods was real, it should be obvious which one. its adherents would survive cancer at a higher rate, pass exams at a higher rate, live longer, be more prosperous, more successful, more prone to getting carparks. But that isn't true.
If it's about sincerity, what happens if you give the A.I. sermon to a deacon or more junior cleric who doesn't know where it comes from, and who preaches it sincerely? If it's about intent, then it's not about the content.
There's a few things this reminds me of.
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Firstly, there was the Catholic priest who was baptizing people with one incorrect word.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/us/pastor-invalid-baptisms-resignation/
Father Andres Arango, who performed thousands of baptisms, would say, “We baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” But Olmsted explained the words “We baptize” should have been “I baptize” instead.
“The issue with using ‘We’ is that it is not the community that baptizes a person, rather, it is Christ, and Him alone, who presides at all of the sacraments, and so it is Christ Jesus who baptizes,” Olmsted wrote in a message to parishioners posted last month.
The error also means that because baptism is the first of the sacraments, some people will need to repeat other sacraments, according to the diocese webpage for frequently asked questions. CNN has reached out to the diocese for comment on other sacraments.
But nobody ever noticed. For 20 years, nobody said, "Father, I don't think it worked, I don't have that Jesusey feeling in me." Nobody ever came back to haunt him and tell him off for getting it wrong and condemning them to purgatory.
The magic spell never actually went identifiably wrong. It's not like the budget didn't balance or the app didn't work or the cake didn't rise.
How do you metaphysically distinguish someone who's had the spiritual hotfix applied, and someone who hasn't?
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Secondly, Surah Corona. If you're not aware, Islam insists that the divine origin of the quran is self evident within the quran. That nobody but Allah could write verses like those in the quran, and challenges doubters to do so.
https://quranx.com/10.37-38
And it was not [possible] for this Qur'an to be produced by other than Allah, but [it is] a confirmation of what was before it and a detailed explanation of the [former] Scripture, about which there is no doubt, from the Lord of the worlds.
Or do they say [about the Prophet], "He invented it?" Say, "Then bring forth a surah like it and call upon [for assistance] whomever you can besides Allah, if you should be truthful."
https://quranx.com/11.13-14
Or do they say, "He invented it"? Say, "Then bring ten surahs like it that have been invented and call upon [for assistance] whomever you can besides Allah, if you should be truthful."
And if they do not respond to you - then know that the Qur'an was revealed with the knowledge of Allah and that there is no deity except Him. Then, would you [not] be Muslims?
So, someone did.
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And (some) Muslims completely lost their minds.
Tunisian authorities have arrested a young woman for publishing fake verses of the Quran about the novel coronavirus.
Amna Al-Sharqi will be investigated by the Tunisian public prosecution, El Bashayerreported, for posting a text on her Facebook page entitled "Surah Corona".
Al-Sharqi sparked outrage on social media for the fake verses and even received death threats.
Never mind that the quran literally challenges you to, it seems like the reaction to it telegraphs the success of the project.
More to the point, if we can't metaphysically distinguish A.I. sermons from human-created sermons, if we can't supernaturally distinguish divine surahs from human-authored surahs, why do we trust the "real" ones at all?
Especially given the known unreliable origin of both the bible and the quran.
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We need not stop there, though. In the Grievance Studies scandal, three academics wrote papers that passed through the review process of several journals and were published, some of them even receiving awards. These papers included:
the "dog park" paper which questioned how dog humping in parks reflects rape-condoning attitudes in human clubs.
a paper which argues for non-competitive "fat bodybuilding."
one which recommends chaining white male students to the floor in the classroom.
a paper that argues that astronomy is sexist and needs to include feminist and queer astrology.
a rewrite of Mein Kampf as intersectional feminism.
and a paper which suggests straight men stick things up their butts in order to overcome "transphobia."
All the papers were ultimately retracted, but the authors argue that there's no basis for doing this.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00491241211009946
In particular, we agree that our papers did not constitute hoaxes and that our intentions when writing them should not be understood to diminish the worth of their content. We also agree that either “Fat Bodybuilding” and our other theory-only papers should be reinstated or else all papers from which ours are indistinguishable should be retracted as being based upon unsound methodologies. Our papers containing false data should remain retracted, and the retraction notices should be amended to reflect genuine scholarly reasons for their retraction: namely, reasons based on the fraudulence of the alleged empirical data, not on the subjective state of mind of the authors.
The papers followed the theory, made the arguments, many were accepted, and several actually published. The "dog park" paper was honored by the journal for its 25th anniversary.
As Helen Pluckrose said:
We set ourselves to the task of writing grievance studies papers. These were real papers. Some people have misunderstood our project to be one in which we wrote nonsense and showed that journals will publish anything. No. They only publish a very specific kind of nonsense.
The reason we got seven papers accepted is because our papers were indistinguishable from genuine ones. Ones that influence social justice activism, politics and culture today.
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All this involved becoming very familiar with the scholarship and reading an enormous number of books and papers. We are legitimate grievance scholars. Our papers average 30 citations, all of them real, but we still turned out a paper every two weeks by essentially recycling and repurposing the same sets of theories.
This is not scholarship. It wasn't scholarship when we did it to show the problem, and it isn't when it's done absolutely sincerely.
We had to conclude our probe early, but it was not the reviewers of grievance journals who caught us. They did not see our claim to have examined 10,000 dog genitals and analyzed this according to black feminist criminology as a bit fishy.
To this day, all three authors have received requests for the completed versions of the papers that were in revision at the time the probe was revealed, and have received feedback from the scholars they cited, that they agreed with the points made in the probe's papers, and have been told that they understood the material better than anyone else.
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So, the same question could be asked in all these cases. If an A.I. can write a sermon, a priest can say a blessing, a human can write a divine surah, a critic can write an academic paper, when those products conform to the ideology and are indistinguishable from the "real" thing, either they should be all equally valid or all equally invalid.
And brings into question of why we trusted the "real" thing in the first place.
I don't know that the preachers who are discussing the use of ChatGPT have thought about this, and I don't know that anything will come of it, but I think there's some good questions to be asked about what makes their thing legit, and ChatGPT's not legit.
As to whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, I don't see any way that this is a bad thing, to non-believers at least. Unless there's something I'm missing that someone can point out. It could be a good thing if believers start wonder about these matters. It could be more neutral than anything else.
Still, it opens up an opportunity. One need not study theology or complete any of the various religious training camps. Hang up your shingle, log into ChatGPT and start preaching... and collecting.
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conociendoelislam · 1 year
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Part 1: Ibn Taymiyyah - The Doctrine of Jihad Warfare
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karryalane · 2 years
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Please pray for the people of Iran
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cryptotheism · 19 days
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hhhhhhh man the Arabic alchemical writers are fascinating but I feel like I'm getting too in the weeds on them. I really like the symmetry of dedicating a page to each of the Big Five, but it's a book about magic, not alchemy. I can hear my editor telling me to only include alchemical doctrine such that it effected western conceptions of magic.
I also think I'm focusing way too much on the influence of neoplatonism on islamicate esoterica. I think that's a result of my relative ignorance though. I know a ton about neoplatonism but relatively little about Islam, especially 9th century Islam. I need to sit down with an islamist scholar and pick their brain for a few hours.
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theyconverted · 2 years
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Irena Handono was born in Surabaya, July 20, 1954. Critical thoughts on Islam emerged when Irena Handono was in college. Her admiration for Islam reappeared when she studied the Qur'an and got to know Allah SWT closer.
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books-by-gauss · 11 months
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sayruq · 20 days
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The Islamic Republic of Iran may reconsider its nuclear doctrine amid growing Israeli threats to the country's nuclear plants, a senior official in the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Thursday.
"The threat from Israel to Iran's nuclear facilities allows Iran to reconsider and deviate from its declared nuclear doctrine and policy," said Ahmad Haghtalab, according to Tasnim news agency. Reiterating statements made by Iran's top military and political officials, including the Iranian leader Sayyed Ali Khamenei, Haghtalab added that Iran is ready to repel any Israeli aggression on its nuclear facilities and subsequently respond to the attack. Expressing confidence that the Iranian nuclear facilities will be safe and secured, he maintained, "From the very beginning, Iran was ready to counter threats from Israel. Thanks to the use of passive defense plans, as well as the most modern weapons, thanks to the dispersal of nuclear facilities throughout Iran, we are ready to counter any threat from Israel to our nuclear facilities."
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