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A Night with the Qur’an I remember a night when illness left me restless, my thoughts clouded, my body heavy. I lay on the floor, headphones pressed against my ears, letting the Qur’an’s recitation wash over me. Verse after verse, rhythm after rhythm — until slowly, the fog lifted. My breathing steadied. My heart softened.
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From Lived Suffering to Juristic Categories Islamic law is not abstract speculation. From its earliest centuries, fiqh grew by watching how people actually lived, suffered, and acted. Jurists observed how human minds worked, how illnesses disrupted capacity, and how treatments affected dignity, then classified these realities into the framework of taklīf (legal responsibility). The majnūn
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Conclusion & Call to Action The discourse on junūn in classical fiqh was never meant to be a rigid fossil of the past. It was a living attempt by jurists to grapple with the limits of human reason, to discern when Allah’s mercy suspends obligation, and when accountability remains. Their categories of junūn dāʾim, junūn
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In the modern age, the study of the mind has been absorbed almost entirely into the domain of neuroscience. To the psychiatrist, psychologist, or neuroscientist, human reason is a product of the brain: networks of neurons, chemical transmitters, and electrical circuits. The mind, in this view, is reducible to matter. Thought is an illusion produced
Unconventional Duha Research Unitary 