#innovations

Alaikum as-salam,
If limits of interaction between the two sexes are maintained, such as having different sides/tables of the restaurant such that the young men and young women socialize amongst themselves separately, then there should be no harm.

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In fact, having been serving the community as an Imam, wedding officiant, and counselor for years, I think that, in my personal opinion, there's great benefit in such halal form of companionship, especially in a non Muslim society. Allāh commanded that Muslim men and women be allies amongst each other in enjoining good and prohibiting vice. The reality is that some Muslim men and women often act like rivals, or worst as enemies, with boycotting, side-looking and dismissal.

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It's unhealthy, for neither Muslim young men nor women, to create such illusionary barrier where they absolutely cannot talk or look at each other, or even that literal barrier where they mustn't see each other praying, let alone exchange Salam in the Musalla, while the same people interact abundantly with the opposite sex the minute they step outside the Musalla, in the classrooms, on the street, and online. This pretentious boycott isn't always a faithful celibacy, rather it may be as well a means of the shaytān to let Muslim men and women despise the Musalla - instead of despising the pretentious innovations -, or leading them to fall into fitna with people from outside the folds of Islam altogether. Over the years, I've gotten to know few MSA execs - both sexes - who got into relationships with non Muslims, and ended up marrying a convert, sometimes a pretentious one, ironically.

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Abdullah bin Mas'oud said in this divinely guided statement: "Whoever needs to follow someone's footsteps, let them follow the footsteps of those ˹righteous˺ who died; for the living are still at risk of Fitnah. Those ˹best role models who died˺ are the companions of Muhammad ﷺ; the most compassionate of hearts, deepest of knowledge, and least pretentious of people."

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But who says so ?

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~ if you know how to investigate , you eventually come to a retard , or someone with temporal lobe anomalies . . . or someone who has limited understanding of what they are seeing , and fills in the blank with the lore they have known . . . .

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Who's telling what to whom ?

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There's always an imbecile in the equation .

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The ludicrous 'Roswell case' ~ was crash dummies being used in health & safety ; survival trials for crash scenarios .

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~ anything that is an object and flies , is by definition an ufo , if you're too limited in information (or understanding) in order to identify it.

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~ I once was fascinated , and studied in depth & extensively . I stopped around 15 years ago ~ when over 20 years I blew every case I followed . .

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I don't know where you get the 2014 date from . Likely the year whatever idiot's ramblings you've been listening to , woke up to the phenomena .

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As for military ~ they are the most suggestible group of people there are . . .
Basic training (first 6 weeks) breaks down all sense of individualistic sense of reason one may naturally have .
Those who ARE brighter , and likely involved in 'secret trials' of new innovations ~ know it's far easier to allow the lore & mysteries to run crazy . . .

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Is anybody out there . . . reading this? ~ Can I please stop now cause it's so fukking boring . . . .
it's not even interesting finding the reasons , because they are so damn boringly simple . . .

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~ I mean , 30 years ago , all the freaks were seeing 'flying-Vs' . . . . then the first gulf-war came around . . . and all the stupid bas saw the Stealth Bombers flattening the shit out of Iraq . . .
~ no more flying Vs . . .
~ no more bored 'startled' commercial pilots gasping about the near misses from 'things' that didn't show up on their radar . . .

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~ O-it occurs . . . . your 'new wave' . . . 'since 2014' coincides with the proliferation of BIGGER drones . . . and more of that ilk we've yet to hear about . . .

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~ aw-shit ; the 'flying saucer' epidemic started in the mid 1930's . . . . and 'took-off' again '43-'47 . . .
~ years later it becomes well-known these dates coincide with Brit & Yank military's (30's) flirtation with disc shaped craft & Uncle Addy's quest for the impossible solution to his imminent defeat (circa 1945)

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*just like nothing on earth*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUVqTS16uWY
*waiting for the meninblack*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRSFIhIpumQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az2KIziq_NE

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I am having some trouble understanding your question.

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I am going to try to break your questions down into questions you might be asking and answer these. I hope that in this process I will at least answer some of your questions.

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In an ideal Christian world would, every book written from a Christian standpoint by a Christian be kept and every other book burned?

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I suppose in a truly ideal Christian world there would only be Christians and every book would be in accord with the Christian faith.

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Will society benefit from this because Christianity is a true religion?

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I would object to this question as if Christianity is true then it is not a true religion but the true religion for there is only one God and hence there can only be one true religion.

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So if one accepts my objection then one can change this question to: Will society benefit from this because Christianity is the true religion? And I would further like to clarify that by "this" is meant that all books would be in accordance with Christian teaching.

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I must answer yes, greatly, for this questions is in effect asking if God is good and God is goodness itself. Will society benefit by all thought being in accordance to his teaching? Beyond our wildest imagination.

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Will this bring about a new age of enlightenment with technological innovations helping mankind?

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I think that one must be clear not to confuse enlightenment with technological innovations. If technological innovations were a measure of enlightenment then this age would be the most enlightened and yet it is clear that this age is denying basic truths. This can be seen by nations allowing abortion a terrible crime against mankind.

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That said let me try to answer the question. If all thought was in accordance with God's commands we would achieve great enlightenment.

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This clarity of thought with regard to the things of God is sure too to lead to great advances in all fields of human thought. The highest achievement of the human mind must be to contemplate and understand the things of God as God is the most noble of all subjects. With this clarity of who God is and what man's relationship to God is, man will be free to explore all that God has made avoiding many dead ends which come from not thinking clearly about God.

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Why would anyone argue that it would not be so?

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It seems to me that if you argue that it would not be so you are in a way arguing that error is in some way good. This is not the case. From error good can be drawn but error remains bad.

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I do hope this answer is of some value. Many prayers and blessings!

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Si ! Bien-sûr que si ! Totalement ! Tu as parfaitement raison et je ne vois rien à ajouter à cela. Nous nous créons des difficultées là où il n'y en n'a pas, chaque fois que nous devons nous débrouiller avec uniquement notre cerveau comme accessoire. Pourquoi ? Car on est tellement habitués à vivre avec la technologie qui nous simplifie tout, qu'on ne sait juste plus vivre sans ! Et c'est vraiment atroce ça ! Franchement faudrait que tout redevienne comme avant... En plus les gens étaient plus heureux à l'époque, et je suis sûre et certaine que c'est en partie par rapport à ça. Car nos ancêtres vivaient pleinement, ils profitaient de tout et se servaient de leur tête et de leurs muscles toute la journée. Alors que nous nous ne sommes plus bons à rien, nous ne sommes même plus capables de réfléchir par nous-mêmes, nous nous renfermons avec la technologie en se coupant du reste du monde et des autres. Et en plus de ça notre putain de technologie sensée être révolutionnaire dans le sens où elle est super, bah elle détruit notre belle et pauvre nature. Alors...

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ce n'est pas une question de besoin.
Il s’agît là de suite purement logique.
Jadis on se balançait des pierres à la gueule, puis on à taillé des cailloux, aujourd'hui, bon, les choses ont suivit leurs cours et on avance, ce n'est pas une question de besoin, mais de fatalité.
En revanche, je suis de ceux qui pensent que la technologie ne prends pas une bonne direction. La science et la technologie ne possèdent aucune morale et n'ont pas vocation à en être imprégné départ leur nature, mais uniquement à établir des faits et des "innovation", elle s’adapte totalement aux mains de l'Homme et n'est rien d'autre qu'une prostitué bien serviable et obéissante. Aujourd'hui, la Technologie à été dévoyée, perdant absolument tout sens commun et ne se focalisant que sur des moyens de profits à court terme. Ce qui entraine forcément une baisse de la grande majorité de la réelle utilité que l'on en à. L’obsolescence programmée, les fausses innovations, les avancées au goutte à goutte . . tout à raison, à force de notre débrouillardise et oui, ça nous assiste, mais si la technologie à bien une utilité majoritaire, c'est aujourd'hui, de débarrasser l'Homme de toutes les tâches ingrates, et même ça, on est pas foutu de faire une transition propre.
Bref, j'aime l'avancement et les idées, mais le problème c'est pas la machine, une fois de plus.

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"One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction. "
[Ex Machina]

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The sincere Muslim who is following the Quran will not find in the Quran any prohibition whatsoever of music or singing. God is very specific and His commands are very clear regarding any prohibition given in the Quran. God never prohibited music or singing in the Quran.
and since we're on it. These prohibitions are innovations made up by some of the scholars and their followers who do not shy from refusing to follow the clear commands in the Quran and instead follow man made laws and books of Hadith and Sunna that contradict the Quran, contradict simple common sense and insult the message of the prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.). Do you even know how many hadiths contradict Quran?

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"God does not forget," 19:64. He did not forget to prohibit Music or singing and waited for someone else to do it.

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"Say: Should I seek a judge other than Allah, when He is the One Who has revealed this Book (The Qur'an) with FULL DETAILS? Those whom We gave the Book, before you, know very well that it is revealed to you from your Rabb with the Truth; therefore, you should not be of those who have doubts." 6:114

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Alors déjà Oukhty je parlais de Hassan Iquioussen je disais qu'il parle très mal des savants etc... " tfouuuuu " .
Oui oui j'assume entièrement ce que j'ai dis , certes c'est un être humain mais cet homme reste un poison pour la Ummah , quand on voit ses conférence et qu'on entends tout ce qui dit , comment il invente des sourate , il attribue des paroles aux savants de la sunna alors qu'ils n'ont jamais dis ce que lui dit d'eux , SubhaanaLlah , il parle mal des savants de la sunnah et des adeptes de la sunnah , il n'a aucune notion de respect et n'a aucune honte ! Après tout ce que cet homme dit et cet Homme fait je suis très surprise qu'il y en ai qui le défende encore juste parce que c'est un être humain mais sachez que mon " tfouuuu " c'est rien du tout par rapport à toutes ces innovations et ces mauvaises paroles qu'il a sortie , car lorsqu'il commence a parler a mentir , a insulter t'a juste une envie de lui cracher dessus tellement il dégoûte mais bon voila j'assume avoir prononcer ces paroles mais mon " tfouuu " il ne gêne pas tant que je ne l'ai pas réellement cracher dessus et ça ne risque pas d'arriver. Ensuite que je me repente de ma parole ça ne se fait pas sur Ask c'est entre moi et Allah donc personne ne le saura Khayr In shaa Allah

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C'est une question que je me pose souvent, et pas seulement pour l'homosexualité.
Doit-on exposer publiquement les intimités individuelles ? Doit-on célébrer des deuils nationaux, des gaypride, des 14 juillet ?
J'aime beaucoup participer à ces célébrations joyeuses mais je me demande si nous ne devrions pas adopter la pudeur et la sincérité de nos émotions, pour les vivre pleinement en chacun de nous ?
Ne devrions nous pas plutôt célébrer publiquement la culture, les solidarités et les innovations scientifiques et sociales (entre autres choses) ?

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Je pense que nous devrions célébrer le collectif et garder intimement pour nous nos sexualités, nos religions, nos régimes alimentaires. Si jusque là la gaypride était un combat pour la reconnaissance des droits LGBT+, ces droits sont aujourd'hui acquis, et faire perdurer cet évènement est un non sens ... Ou sinon, organisons "asexpride", l'"hétéropride", la "pansexpride", la "zoophilopride" (ah bah si vous nous tannez avec le non spécisme, va falloir accepter la zoophilie les gens hein !), etc ... créons une sorte de laïcité sexuelle : la sexuaïcité (bon, il va falloir travailler sur le nom) !

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According tothe Mufti of Mecca Ahmad ibn Zayni Dahlan, in his book al-Sira al-nabawiyya wa al-athar al-muhammadiyya, page 51: “To celebrate the Mawlid and to remember the Prophet is accepted by all the Ulama of the Muslims.” Most of the following quotations are taken from that work.

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Imam Subki said, “When we were celebrating the Prophet’s birthday, a great uns (familiarity) comes to our heart, and we feel something special.”

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Imam Shawkani in his book al-Badr at-tali`, said, “It is permissible to celebrate the Prophet’s birthday.” He mentioned that Mullah `Ali Qari held the same opinion in a book entitled al-Mawrid ar-Rawi fi al-Mawlid al-Nabawi, written specifically to support the celebration of the Prophet’s birthday.

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Imam Abu Shama, the sheikh of Imam Nawawi, said in his book on innovations entitled: al-Ba`ith `ala inkar al-bida` wa al-hawadith:

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The best innovation in our day is the remembrance of the Prophet’s birthday. On that day, people give much donations, make much worship, show much love to the Prophet, and give much thanks to Allah Almighty for sending them His messenger to keep them on the Sunna and Shari`a of Islam.

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Imam Sakhawi said, “The Mawlid was begun three centuries after the Prophet, and all Muslim nations celebrated it, and all `ulama accepted it, by worshipping Allah alone, by giving donations and by reading the Prophet’s Sira.”

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Hafiz Ibn Hajar al-Haytami said , “As Jews celebrated the day of `Ashura by fasting to thank Allah, we also have to celebrate the day of Mawlid,” and he quoted the aforementioned hadith, “When the Prophet came to Madina…” Ibn Hajar continues, “One gives thanks to Allah for the favor that He gave on a particular day either through a great good, or through the averting of a disaster. That day is celebrated every year thereafter. Thanksgiving entails various forms of worship like prostration, fast, charity, and recitation of Qur’an, and what greater good is there than the advent of that Prophet, the Prophet of Mercy, on the day of Mawlid?”

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Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 597) wrote a booklet of poems and sira to be read at mawlid celebrations. It is entitled Mawlid al-`arus and begins with the words: al-hamdu lillah al-ladhi abraza min ghurrati `arusi al-hadrati subhan mustanira: “Praise be to Allah Who has manifested from the radiance of the bridegroom of His presence a light-giving daybreak…”

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To Celebrate Mawlid Is Mandub (Recommended)
Imam Suyuti in his book Husn al-maqsid fi `amal al-mawlid, p. 54 and 62, says: “The reason for gathering for tarawih prayers is Sunna and qurba (to seek nearness to Allah)… and similarly we say that the reason for gathering to celebrate mawlid is mandub (recommended) and qurba (an act of drawing near).. and the intention to celebrate mawlid is mustahsana (excellent) without a doubt.”

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Assalamualaikum wr wb!

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The things which contradicts with Islam and is an imitation with kuffar then such thing is Haraam, Bid'aah (Innovation).

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Firstly, There no such clear evidence that Prophet Pbuh was born on 12th of Rabbi-ul-Awwal.

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Secondly, What Biddah actually mean is “According to sharee’ah, the definition is ‘Worshipping Allaah in ways that Allaah has not prescribed.’ If you wish you may say, ‘Worshipping Allaah in ways that are not those of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) or his rightly guided successors (al-khulafaa’ al-raashidoon).’

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With regard to ordinary matters of habit and custom such as Fridge, Car etc, these are not called bid’ah (innovation) in Islam, even though they may be described as such in linguistic terms. But they are not innovations in the religious sense, and these are not the things that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was warning us against.

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Now Regarding Mawlid, Prophet himself (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) did not do this or command anyone to do it, either during his lifetime or after his death. Indeed, he told them not to exaggerate about him as the Christians had exaggerated about Jesus (upon whom be peace). He said: “Do not exaggerate about me as the Christians exaggerated about the son of Maryam. I am only a slave, so say, ‘The slave of Allaah and His Messenger.’” (Bukhari)

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Moreover, we know that the Sahaabah (may Allaah be pleased with them) were the people who loved the Prophet most. Was it reported that Abu Bakr, who was the closest of people to him and the one who loved him the most, celebrated the birthday of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)? Was it reported that ‘Umar, who ruled for twelve years, or ‘Uthmaan, did this? Was it reported that ‘Ali, his relative and foster son, did this? Was it reported that any of the Sahaabah did this? No, by Allaah! Is it because they were not aware of its importance, or did they not truly love the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)? No one would say such a thing except one who has gone astray and is leading others astray.

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I hope you understood my dear Brother/Sister.

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And Allah knows best

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May Allah swt guide us all.

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The first thing I can say is to really acknowledge that this is a real problem. You would be amazed that so many people in this world are saying that climate change is a myth. Donald Trump said in his twitter: "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive." Climate change is very real. Don't be ignorant, the scientific proof is all around you.

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You can start to minimize your individual carbon footprint, which is the amount of carbon dioxide and other carbon compound emitted due to consumption of fossil fuels, by using energy-efficient appliances, using less bottled water, driving a low-carbon vehicle, etc.

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However, in the bigger scale, as someone aspiring to run a business or a company someday, you have to be acquainted with the term 'corporate sustainability'.

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One of the biggest ethical dilemma for companies is to choose whether to maximize shareholder value and to minimize environmental damage. Well, with corporate sustainability, it's a win-win situation. Corporate sustainability is basically a business approach that creates long-term shareholder value by creating 'green' strategy that embraces opportunities and managing risks deriving from economic, environmental and social developments. So these strategies incorporate elements such as efficient resource management, waste stewardship, innovations towards efficient-energy use, etc.

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So with all these measures, companies can reduce energy and waste expenses, reduce operational risks, reduce material expenses, and so on. Sustainable business practices can also attract business talent and generate tax breaks.

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Many companies today have incorporated this really well, like PepsiCo, Ford Motors, Nike, Starbucks. You can imagine, if more and more company executives realize that we need to really do this, not even just big companies, we could really minimize our damage to the environment, and contributing less and less to global warming. Because honestly, companies and factories are largely responsible for most of our man-made global warming emissions (you can read this article for reference: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/20/90-companies-man-made-global-warming-emissions-climate-change).

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As an individual, you can start small, but at the same time it's important to aspire to do big things in the future to try to alleviate this very real problem that we have in the world.
Hope this helps :)

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Technology is not the problem, it's a symptom. These explanations for this or that social pathology don't go deep enough - you need to go all the way to the source, or you're just mopping up water from a broken faucet.

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This question seems to be mostly talking about the internet, when it refers to "connecting technologies." Lots of folks have a huge boner for online communication, online communities, & I understand that. There's lots of good things these innovations afford us.

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Ultimately tho, they are developed by, for, & take place w/in, post-industrial capitalism. Thus they're largely intended to be useful for post-industrial capitalism, as is every other aspect of our lives. If it doesn't mesh w/ the ideological values & material needs of late capitalism, it doesn't happen. Straight up. Every interaction enabled by communications technology takes place at the sufferance of capitalist interests.

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Internet technology should connect ppl. That's what it's for. If it's doing that but also at the same time making us DISconnected, that doesn't make sense. It's very difficult for a single thing to have an effect, & at the same time have the opposite effect.

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Capitalism is disconnecting us, & our communication technology enables a simulation of that lost connection. It's efficient, far-reaching, & accessible. It's also a toxic shit-show, but that doesn't matter, so long as it works. It's also an alienating, sub-real version of actual interpersonal relations & community-building, but that doesn't matter either. So long as we sign up for 24 mth contracts & turn up to work, so long as we don't mind if all public spaces are ceded to the needs of capitalism, it doesn't matter.

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It's a trade-off, & like every trade-off made by workers w/ the bourgeoisie, on sum it does not work in our favour. EVERY interaction you have w/ capitalism, as a worker, is exploitative. I've explained this before, but if this is new to you or still isn't clear, check out this link for a brief, entry-level primer: http://libcom.org/library/capitalism-introduction

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The internet, & the devices we use to access it, have changed the way we work & live. It is a capitalist technology, developed in capitalist nations, for use by those nations. The adaptations made to suit it, therefore, ARE adapted in the interests of capitalism. EVERY adaptation not explicitly generated BY the power of workers is going to be designed to exploit workers. That's...fucking SCIENCE. Unless you think God, or pure random chance, is what generates social change, these are your options for explaining why changes unfold the way they do.

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Internet technologies that "bring us closer together" only do so if it means they can, in other ways, isolate us further, because an isolated working class is an obedient working class. Connected, but alone - precisely how they like us.

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