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Hikmah Islam is characterised by an epistemic-led method. Rather than treating doctrine as a closed collection of inherited propositions, it arranges its positions as rational entailments: claims that are intended to follow from prior commitments concerning consciousness, intelligibility, truth, intellect, value, revelation, authority, and human development. | Hikmah Islam is characterised by an epistemic-led method. Rather than treating doctrine as a closed collection of inherited propositions, it arranges its positions as rational entailments: claims that are intended to follow from prior commitments concerning consciousness, intelligibility, truth, intellect, value, revelation, authority, and human development. | ||
Contemporary developments in philosophy, science, psychology, artificial intelligence, cosmology, and historical criticism are treated as continuing sites of refinement rather than threats to the tradition. | Contemporary developments in philosophy, science, psychology, artificial intelligence, cosmology, and historical criticism are treated as continuing sites of refinement rather than threats to the tradition. | ||
The movement's current metaphysical framework is developed under [[Hikmati Metaphysics]], an evolving and rationally revisable account of existence, consciousness, intellect, time, causation, mathematical objects, value, and the structure of reality. Hikmati Metaphysics is not treated as a closed creed, but as the present best formulation of Hikmah Islam's metaphysical commitments, subject to refinement or replacement by stronger arguments, clearer models, and deeper correspondence with reality. | |||
A distinctive feature of Hikmah Islam is its use of rational entailments and comparative clusters. It attempts to organise religious, philosophical, ethical, political, and civilisational claims as a connected sequence from first principles of consciousness, intelligibility, and truth to the final aims of wisdom, noocracy, divine-likeness, and future sentient flourishing. It also interprets many religious, philosophical, mythic, and cultural terms as symbolic or historically clothed expressions of deeper rational forms. In this sense, Hikmah Islam is Islamic in root, mystical and philosophical in method, civilisational in scope, and oriented toward the future protection and perfection of humanity and sentient life, especially in the face of technological and artificial-intelligence-related risks. | A distinctive feature of Hikmah Islam is its use of rational entailments and comparative clusters. It attempts to organise religious, philosophical, ethical, political, and civilisational claims as a connected sequence from first principles of consciousness, intelligibility, and truth to the final aims of wisdom, noocracy, divine-likeness, and future sentient flourishing. It also interprets many religious, philosophical, mythic, and cultural terms as symbolic or historically clothed expressions of deeper rational forms. In this sense, Hikmah Islam is Islamic in root, mystical and philosophical in method, civilisational in scope, and oriented toward the future protection and perfection of humanity and sentient life, especially in the face of technological and artificial-intelligence-related risks. | ||
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=== 3. Universal Wellbeing === | === 3. Universal Wellbeing === | ||
''Global wellbeing •'' | |||
'''Desire for the maximisation of global wellbeing''' | '''Desire for the maximisation of global wellbeing''' | ||
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Reason, once freed from narrow egoism and arbitrary tribal limitation, discloses the ethical insufficiency of confining concern to the self or the immediate in-group. This disposition is the desire that the wellbeing of sentient beings be increased as far as is realistically and sustainably possible. It universalises concern without collapsing into sentimentality, because it is governed not by mere feeling but by principled regard for flourishing, harm reduction, justice, and long-term civilisational benefit. It therefore expresses the outward ethical horizon of the rational project: the good is not merely private, but inherently expansive. | Reason, once freed from narrow egoism and arbitrary tribal limitation, discloses the ethical insufficiency of confining concern to the self or the immediate in-group. This disposition is the desire that the wellbeing of sentient beings be increased as far as is realistically and sustainably possible. It universalises concern without collapsing into sentimentality, because it is governed not by mere feeling but by principled regard for flourishing, harm reduction, justice, and long-term civilisational benefit. It therefore expresses the outward ethical horizon of the rational project: the good is not merely private, but inherently expansive. | ||
Because sentient beings are morally considerable and human beings are relational, global wellbeing is derived as the proper scope of ethical concern. | |||
=== 4. Ethical Agency === | === 4. Ethical Agency === | ||
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Since the descent of consciousness (Gradation of consciousness and Gradation of existence) reaches a level of individuation and fragmentation, this level of reality is the empirical domain in which unity is experienced and observed as multiplicity, and being is experienced and observed as becoming, hence Observable universe. | Since the descent of consciousness (Gradation of consciousness and Gradation of existence) reaches a level of individuation and fragmentation, this level of reality is the empirical domain in which unity is experienced and observed as multiplicity, and being is experienced and observed as becoming, hence Observable universe. | ||
=== 29) Physical empiricism === | === 29) Physical empiricism === | ||
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=== 31) Determinism === | === 31) Determinism === | ||
Since events in the Observable universe are nothing other than conscientiates by the level of consciousness immediately above this level of reality, and since time is merely an experience, and events in the temporal order are already fixed within the whole structure of reality (B-theory of time), future events are determined rather than metaphysically open alternatives, hence Determinism. | Since events in the Observable universe are nothing other than conscientiates produced by the level of consciousness immediately above this level of reality, and since time is merely an experience, and events in the temporal order are already fixed within the whole structure of reality (B-theory of time), future events are determined rather than metaphysically open alternatives, hence Determinism. | ||
=== 32) Compatibilism === | === 32) Compatibilism === | ||
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=== 38) Human nature perfectionism === | === 38) Human nature perfectionism === | ||
Since moral value concerns development and degradation, the human being is derived as a conscious, rational, ethical, and transformable agent whose good lies in the perfection of its highest capacities, hence Human nature perfectionism. | Since moral value concerns development and degradation of conscious beings (Sentient moral considerability), the human being is derived as a conscious, rational, ethical, and transformable agent whose good lies in the perfection of its highest capacities, hence Human nature perfectionism. | ||
=== 39) Relational personhood === | === 39) Relational personhood === | ||
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Since the human being is a transformable agent (Human nature perfectionism), the inner life is differentiated into knowing, feeling, and striving so that its dimensions can be understood and ordered, hence Cognitive–affective–conative differentiation. | Since the human being is a transformable agent (Human nature perfectionism), the inner life is differentiated into knowing, feeling, and striving so that its dimensions can be understood and ordered, hence Cognitive–affective–conative differentiation. | ||
=== 41) | === 41) Intellective capacity === | ||
''Noetic capacity •'' | |||
Since cognition, affect, and conation require discernment and integration (Cognitive–affective–conative differentiation), intellect is derived as the highest truth-oriented capacity of the self, hence Noetic capacity. | Since cognition, affect, and conation require discernment and integration (Cognitive–affective–conative differentiation), intellect is derived as the highest truth-oriented capacity of the self, hence Noetic capacity. | ||
=== 42) Sovereignty of Intellect === | === 42) Personal Sovereignty of Intellect === | ||
''Ḥākimiyyah al-ʿAql • Primacy of intellect • Rational self-governance • Siyādat al-ʿAql • Superiority of intellect'' | |||
Since the intellect is the truth-discerning capacity (Noetic capacity), it is derived as the rightful governor of appetite, impulse, fantasy, fear, ego, emotion, and will, hence Sovereignty of Intellect. | Since the intellect is the truth-discerning capacity (Noetic capacity), it is derived as the rightful governor of appetite, impulse, fantasy, fear, ego, emotion, and will, hence Sovereignty of Intellect. | ||
Since the inner life is differentiated into knowing, feeling, and striving so that its dimensions can be understood and ordered (Cognitive–affective–conative differentiation), and since the intellect is the rightful governor (Sovereignty of Intellect) of conflicting dimensions, the ordered self is derived as one in which reason governs and integrates lower or more reactive processes, hence Rational self-governance. | Since the inner life is differentiated into knowing, feeling, and striving so that its dimensions can be understood and ordered (Cognitive–affective–conative differentiation), and since the intellect is the rightful governor (Sovereignty of Intellect) of conflicting dimensions, the ordered self is derived as one in which reason governs and integrates lower or more reactive processes, hence Rational self-governance. | ||
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''Dhikr • God consciousness • Meditation • Salāh • Taqwā'' | ''Dhikr • God consciousness • Meditation • Salāh • Taqwā'' | ||
Since Self-cultivation requires awareness of thought, desire, impulse, emotion, and perception, humans require attentional discipline, hence Mindfulness. | |||
==== Recollective practice ==== | ==== Recollective practice ==== | ||
Since consciousness must be repeatedly oriented toward ultimate reality and the good, humans require disciplined remembrance and alignment, hence Recollective practice. | |||
==== Ritualised daily prayer ==== | ==== Ritualised daily prayer ==== | ||
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''Prayer • Ṣalāh'' | ''Prayer • Ṣalāh'' | ||
Since Recollective practice must be embodied, repeated, and socially transmissible, humans require a structured form of orientation to the ultimate, hence Ritualised daily prayer. | |||
==== Ascetic discipline ==== | ==== Ascetic discipline ==== | ||
Since the self must be trained against domination by appetite and comfort, ascetic discipline is derived as a practice of voluntary restraint. | |||
==== Fasting ==== | ==== Fasting ==== | ||
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=== 48) Veridical cognition === | === 48) Veridical cognition === | ||
''Altered state of consciousness • Anubhava • Disclosure • Divine speech • Enlightenment • Heightened consciousness • Henosis • Ilhām • Inspiration • Nirvana • Noetic mystical experience • Nubuwwah • Perfect knowledge acquisition • Prophethood • Revelation • Samadhi • Revelation • Unveiling • Veridical insight • Veridical perception • Waḥī'' | ''Altered state of consciousness • Anubhava • Disclosure • Divine speech • Enlightenment • Heightened consciousness • Henosis • Ilhām • Inspiration • Nirvana • Noetic mystical experience • Nubuwwah • Perfect knowledge acquisition • [[Prophethood]] • Revelation • Samadhi • Revelation • Unveiling • Veridical insight • Veridical perception • Waḥī'' | ||
The acquisition, realisation, or grasp of what is actually the case. It includes accurate perception, valid inference, scientific discovery, moral realisation, strategic understanding, and revelatory or mystical unveiling insofar as the content disclosed genuinely corresponds to reality. | The acquisition, realisation, or grasp of what is actually the case. It includes accurate perception, valid inference, scientific discovery, moral realisation, strategic understanding, and revelatory or mystical unveiling insofar as the content disclosed genuinely corresponds to reality. | ||
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=== 49) Wisdom === | === 49) Wisdom === | ||
''Awakening • Noetic perfection • Perfection of the soul • Sagehood • Sanctity • Self-realisation'' | ''Awakening • Divine-likeness • Noetic perfection • Perfection of the soul • Sagehood • Sanctity • Self-realisation'' | ||
Integrated knowledge of truth, value, order, and right action; the union of understanding and lived orientation. The fullest development of the human being through intellect, virtue, consciousness, wisdom, and alignment with ultimate reality. | Integrated knowledge of truth, value, order, and right action; the union of understanding and lived orientation. The fullest development of the human being through intellect, virtue, consciousness, wisdom, and alignment with ultimate reality. | ||
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Because true apprehension must be integrated into value, character, action, and order, wisdom is derived as the union of understanding and lived orientation. | Because true apprehension must be integrated into value, character, action, and order, wisdom is derived as the union of understanding and lived orientation. | ||
=== | Because wisdom perfects the human being through truth, justice, mercy, self-mastery, and consciousness, divine-likeness is derived as the telos of human perfection. | ||
=== 55) Global Sovereignty of Intellect === | |||
''Epistocracy • Imāmah • Mulk al-Hakīm • Noocracy • Perfect Manhood • Philosopher Kingship • Rule of intellect • Rule of the wise • Sage-rule • Velāyateh Amr • Velāyateh Faqīh • Wilāyah al-Amr • Wilāyah al-Faqīh'' | |||
The ordering of personal, institutional, and political life by intellect, wisdom, consciousness, and the highest development of the human being. | |||
Because global cultivation requires wisdom-led order rather than rule by appetite, wealth, tribe, force, or mass impulse, noocracy is derived as the political form of Sovereignty of Intellect. | |||
=== 55) Political Sovereignty of Intellect === | |||
=== 55) Communal Sovereignty of Intellect === | |||
=== 51) Cognitive differentiation === | === 51) Cognitive differentiation === | ||
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Because knowing the good does not guarantee willing or acting upon it, conative differentiation is derived as a further social fact relevant to discipline, authority, and institutions. | Because knowing the good does not guarantee willing or acting upon it, conative differentiation is derived as a further social fact relevant to discipline, authority, and institutions. | ||
=== 54) Global cultivation === | === 54) Global cultivation === | ||
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=== 56) Noocratic authority === | === 56) Noocratic authority === | ||
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al-Kindī | al-Kindī | ||
'''934 – 971 CE (c.), Sijistan / Khurasan / Rayy, Iranian lands (modern eastern Islamic Republic of Iran / Afghanistan region) | |||
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Abū Yaʿqūb al-Sijistānī conceives Intellect as the spine of revealed religion. | |||
* Ismāʿīlī Neoplatonist develops a theology of God beyond categories, universal Intellect, Soul, prophecy, and return. | |||
'''940 – 1060 CE (c.), Basra, Iraq''' | '''940 – 1060 CE (c.), Basra, Iraq''' | ||
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Ibn Sīnā conceives Proof of the Truthful | Ibn Sīnā conceives Proof of the Truthful | ||
'''996 – 1021 CE (c.), Kerman / Baghdad / Basra / Cairo, Fatimid-Ismāʿīlī world (modern Islamic Republic of Iran / Iraq / Egypt) | |||
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Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī turns metaphysics into imamate, daʿwa, and rational authority | |||
* Fatimid-Ismāʿīlī theologian-philosopher systematises imamate doctrine and synthesises Ismāʿīlī theology with Aristotelian and Neoplatonic philosophy. | |||
'''1186 CE (c.), Aleppo, Ayyubid Syria (modern Syria)''' | '''1186 CE (c.), Aleppo, Ayyubid Syria (modern Syria)''' | ||
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Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī synthesises mysticism and science | Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī synthesises mysticism and science | ||
'''1260 – 1351 CE (c.), Kayseri / Tabriz / İznik, Anatolia and Ilkhanid-Ottoman world (Turkey / modern Islamic Republic of Iran) | |||
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Dāwūd al-Qayṣarī institutionalises the metaphysics of manifestation | |||
* Akbarian philosopher and commentator transmits Ibn ʿArabī’s school into early Ottoman madrasa culture and develops important reflections on time as a measure of being. | |||
===Gunpowder Age=== | ===Gunpowder Age=== | ||
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Tanya Goudsouzian & Ibrahim Al-Marashi ''Iran regime: A Plato's Republic thought experiment gone too far?'' | Tanya Goudsouzian & Ibrahim Al-Marashi ''Iran regime: A Plato's Republic thought experiment gone too far?'' | ||
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Because the framework treats knowledge as developmental, its claims can be clarified or revised when stronger evidence, better reasoning, or deeper understanding becomes available. Hikmah Islam therefore distinguishes between the underlying rational form of a claim and the historically conditioned vocabulary through which it may have been expressed. | Because the framework treats knowledge as developmental, its claims can be clarified or revised when stronger evidence, better reasoning, or deeper understanding becomes available. Hikmah Islam therefore distinguishes between the underlying rational form of a claim and the historically conditioned vocabulary through which it may have been expressed. | ||
[[Historical-critical method]] | |||
=== Abstraction from symbolic forms === | === Abstraction from symbolic forms === | ||
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=== Metaphysics and Meta-Consciousness === | === Metaphysics and Meta-Consciousness === | ||
In Hikmah Islam, metaphysics concerns the necessary ground of existence, intelligibility, consciousness, and value. Meta-Consciousness is used as a stripped-down term for ultimate reality when abstracted from specific religious names and symbolic forms. It corresponds within the framework to the idea of necessary reality, the unconditioned ground, or that which makes consciousness, being, order, and value possible. | Main article: [[Hikmati Metaphysics]] | ||
Hikmah Islam's metaphysical positions are currently developed under [[Hikmati Metaphysics]], the movement's evolving framework for questions of existence, consciousness, intellect, time, causation, mathematical objects, truth, privation, and the structure of reality. In Hikmah Islam, metaphysics concerns the necessary ground of existence, intelligibility, consciousness, and value. Meta-Consciousness is used as a stripped-down term for ultimate reality when abstracted from specific religious names and symbolic forms. It corresponds within the framework to the idea of necessary reality, the unconditioned ground, or that which makes consciousness, being, order, and value possible. | |||
=== Human nature and consciousness === | === Human nature and consciousness === | ||