Nuron

Nuron (for normal people)
alt spelling,
Nooron (saudi spelling)

Huh?
Think noor(light-arabic)-photon(idealised light wave/particle)-neuron(brain signal carrier)

Definition
Unit of inspiriation, an element of enlightenment.
Experts are unable to pin down the exact nature of these entities, mighty shame that.
They don't however expect that they are physical, and everyone agrees that they originate from the Almighty's Infinite Mercy.
Unfortunately, this has not stopped some rather sad and misguided people from arguing that Nurons are just social constructs, or prevented the construction of intellectually wastefull particle accelerators and education systems.

Common questions that Muslims ask can be explained by Nuron theory. Nobody can yet tell if its any good.

Q - Why am i so thick?
A - You havent been in reception of any Nurons. Could be a problem with the local geography or your antenna.

Q - Why is Muslim civilisation not having a good time?
A - Generally, we live in ignocracies ( Hussein Alattas, 1974) and hate eachother too much, this inhibits Nuron transmission and exploitation. Personally, we can be quite arrogant and closed minded and too certain about things of which we have no experience.

Q - My Aunty Josie, she's gone bompletely bonkers, babbling on like a woman possessed about a crafty new knitting pattern that undermines the fundamental laws of Physics.
A - She got hit by a Nuron.


See Related
Uloomination
Cultural J
Imanate
Ummatosphere
Salafinesse

Islamic answers to some interesting questions

Question: Can God do everything?
If the answer is YES, then:
Can God cry? Can God sleep? Can God die?? Can God be unjust? Can God throw me out of his domain? To Him belongs everything where will he throw me?...so as we can see there can be thousands of things that God “cannot” do.

If the answer is NO, then God cannot do many things, so He is not all powerful.

Islamic response to such questions/logics:
In the Quran, Allah NEVER says that he can do EVERYTHING. One has to be very careful about it. Allah picked each word of the Quran in such a way so that people cannot play with the words or the verses. So what does Allah say about his abilities?

[2.106] ….. Do you not know that Allah has power over all things?
[3.29] …and Allah has power over all things.
[16.77] … surely Allah has power over all things.

And many more places, “Innallaha ala kulli shay in Kadir”, so notice Allah didn’t say that “Allah can do everything”, he says “Allah has power over all things.” There is a world of a difference between "Allah can do everything" and "Allah has power over everything". In fact Qur’an tells us:

[85.15] Lord of the Arsh, the Glorious,
[85.16] The great doer of what He will.

Whatever Allah “intends” or "wills", he can do but Allah only does godly things. He does not do ungodly things. So questions like “Can Allah sleep?” “Can Allah die” never even comes. Allah does ONLY the things that He intends to do.

Question: Can Allah make such a huge rock that he himself cannot move?

A huge misconception can make this answer hard. If you ask muslims “where is Allah?” It is more likely that they will say “Allah is everywhere”. That is NOT true. The idea of Allah being everywhere is the root idea of paganism. If Allah is everywhere, then he is in the river, in the idol, in the chair, in the table, so we can worship them. The Quran and the sunnah teaches us VERY clearly on this matter. In many places in the Quran we find Allah saying that things will go “up” to him.

[32.5] He regulates the affair FROM the heaven TO the earth; then shall it ASCEND (or go UP) to Him in a day the measure of which is a thousand years of what you count

[70.4] To Him ASCEND (or go UP) the angels and the Spirit in a day the measure of which is fifty thousand years.

…etc

If that was not clear enough, then in one hadith prophet Muhammad (PBUH) asked a slave girl, “Where is Allah?” the girl replied “Above the heavens”. He asked again, “Who am I” The girl replied, “messenger of Allah”. Then the prophet said that the girl has correct Islamic knowledge. So, Allah is NOT everywhere, he is above the heavens somewhere, BUT his knowledge is everywhere, He sees/hears/controls everything. He doesn’t have to come down to this earth to do anything. The bottom line is, Allah is NOT within his creation. So the question of “can Allah move a rock” doesn’t apply to Allah, because he is NOT in his creation. We have to be very careful about it.

Falsafah - an introduction

Falsafah (Arabic falsafa from Greek philosophia) is the pursuit of philosophy in Islam. The Muslim delight in philosophy, especially in the early centuries, resides on the prevalent concept of divine creation; that is, God is the creator of all things, and that knowledge, ilm, leads to a deeper understanding of him and his works. Thus falsafah is, or was, a commitment to wisdom in which every science is necessarily involved, but falsafah, philosophy is predominant because it heads the rest.

When the arabs came into contact with Greek science and philosophy in the ninth century there emerged a new breed of Muslim dedicated to an ideal they called the Falsafah. The aim of the Fayllasufs (philosophers) was to live rationally in accordance with the laws that governed the universe. Since they believed the God of the Greek philosophers to be identical with Allah, they turned first to Greek science and then to Greek philosophy. The Faylasufs came to the conclusion that rationalism represented the most advanced form of religion, and that it had evolved a higher notion of God than what was revealed in the scriptures. They had no intention of abolishing religion, they wanted to purify it. They believed it was their duty to translate the Koran into the more advanced idiom developed through the ages by the best and noblest minds in all cultures. God was not a mystery, he was reason itself . This is not to suggest even for a moment that the concept of a fully rational universe that dominated Greek thought was compatible with the thought of the Muslims. The Faylasufs simply considered that natural law was a manifestation of Allah.

This turn towards Greek philosophy, however, did not mean that the Muslims had adopted the Greek and western idea of a rational universe. Nor were the Faylasuf's attempting to develop a natural theology. The universe was created by Allah out of nothing. Thus Allah is beyond rationality. They were not searching for a reasoned explanation of the world. They were searching for a reasoned explanation of the truth of the Koran.

The world was a rational creation of Allah, and that did not require a rational God. If what He created was rational then reasoning was an avenue to its understanding.