Editorial
Asim
How did you come to understand the meaning you
understood from the syntax of words in this sentence?
How do you know there is a city in Japan called Tokyo?
How we come to know what we know and understand the
meanings we derive from the interactive network of things
in and around us is called epistemology. It is the study of
knowledge and the sources we rely on to gain knowledge
and know what we know. It is important because we utilize
this -ology in our traditional sciences to understand how we
come to believe what we believe, think, and feel as Muslims.
Dr. Maulana Mateen Khan has done an impressive job of
simplifying this important topic in our times.
Imam Abu Hanifah, the greatest jurist in Islamic history,
and synonyms in the Qur’an: What is the relation and how
does it solve the hairsplitting debate that confounded earlier
scholars on the matter of whether iman fluctuates or not?
Shaykh Omar Baloch shoots more than two birds with
the same stone in his article Synonyms and the Miracle of
the Qur’an. While explaining how synonyms work in the
Qur’an, he unravels the miraculous nature of Qur’an and
reveals the brilliance of Imam Abu Hanifah in quelling
the judgmentalism of deviated sects of earlier times like
the Kharijite, who executed their harsh judgments against
mainstream Islam with a heavy-handed sword.
How did you come to know that
your father and mother are who
they say they are to you?