mindfulness
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There are experiences that modern science calls hallucinations—moments when the mind sees or hears what others cannot. Psychiatry classifies them as symptoms; neurology measures them in waves and neurotransmitters.But to the one who lives through them, they are not numbers.They are realities that move, speak, accuse, sometimes comfort.They belong to the hidden theatre of the
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1. The Historical Problem: Why Creativity Was Devalued Across intellectual traditions — Islamic, Western, and modern — creativity has often been sidelined compared to science and rationality. Several reasons explain this: a. The Legacy of Rationalism Greek philosophy (Aristotle, Plato) ranked imagination (phantasia) as a lower faculty of the soul, below reason (logos). Aristotle saw
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The Qur’an establishes the link between taqwā, furqān, and renewal: “O you who believe, if you fear Allah, He will grant you a criterion (furqān), remove your misdeeds, and forgive you” (Qur’an 8:29, Sahih International, 1997). The mujaddidūn of Islamic history embodied this principle through their distinct relationships with the Qur’an and Hadith. Each mujaddid’s
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The Epistemic Depths of Ruʾyah and Nazar – Two Modes of Quranic Observation In the rich tapestry of Quranic Arabic, the distinction between ruʾyah (رؤية) and naẓar (نظر) reveals profound insights into the nature of human cognition and spiritual perception. While both terms can be superficially translated as “observation,” they represent fundamentally different epistemic approaches
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Khushu in Islamic prayer (ṣalah) denotes a state of deep attentiveness, humility, and tranquility before Allah. While primarily a spiritual state, emerging evidence from neuroscience, cardiology, and psychology suggests that the embodied practices of prayer—including gaze fixation, heart regulation, and brain oscillations—create synchrony across physiological systems that supports this state. This paper proposes a neuro-spiritual
Unconventional Duha Research Unitary 