The Jewish-Sufi Mystics of Medieval Egypt

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Let's Talk Religion

Let's Talk Religion

2 жыл бұрын

As part of a three-part collaboration with Esoterica & Seekers of Unity, this episode explores the life, teachings and movement of Abraham Maimonides, the son of the much more famous Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides (d. 1204).
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Sources/Suggested Reading:
Idel, Moshe (1987). "The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia". State University of New York Press
Kraemer, Joel L. (2010). "Maimonides: The Life and World of one of Civilization's Greatest Minds". Doubleday & Co Inc.
Lobel, Diana (2021). "Moses and Abraham Maimonides: Encountering the Divine". Academic Studies Press.
Russ-Fishbane, Elisha (2015). "Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt: A study of Abraham Maimonides and his times". Oxford University Press
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@LetsTalkReligion
@LetsTalkReligion 2 жыл бұрын
Check out the excellent videos by my collaborators! Esoterica: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n5yhls-rl5yziY0.html Seekers of Unity: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bsyghLNystelhJ8.html
@gabrielleangelica1977
@gabrielleangelica1977 2 жыл бұрын
Already subscribed! 👍
@TheEsotericaChannel
@TheEsotericaChannel 2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful working together again, Filip - I'm so blessed to call you both colleague and friend!
@jacovawernett3077
@jacovawernett3077 2 жыл бұрын
Neshama. Malkut. Schlama. 11
@blazingstar9638
@blazingstar9638 2 жыл бұрын
So grateful for you guys! Thank you!
@maiacorbin7879
@maiacorbin7879 2 жыл бұрын
This wholesome content
@ewadsworth
@ewadsworth 2 жыл бұрын
😍
@leighcecil3322
@leighcecil3322 Жыл бұрын
Namista 🙏
@lemonbalm3781
@lemonbalm3781 2 жыл бұрын
thanks so much!! as a descendent of syrian and egyptian jews, this content is verrrrrry much up my alley. really appreciate you highlighting the shared culture between muslims and jews in the arab world.
@abrecfajardo3378
@abrecfajardo3378 2 жыл бұрын
yes this a beautiful form of mysticism, there are non senses like gigul, misunderstanding the scriptures according to christians visions hidden under an Ashkenazi hasidic optic, etc
@jackvenables4981
@jackvenables4981 Жыл бұрын
Same here but we were Venetian Jews who were heavily exposed to the ideas of Alexandrian and Ottoman Jews.
@Jordana1018
@Jordana1018 2 жыл бұрын
I believe Abraham & his teachings, Jews & Arabs are cousins, very related, both Semitic & Semitic based faiths. Also some key followers of Muhammad were Jews. We lived all around each other since time immemorial. It seems that the world has forgotten & believes that Jews all came from Europe and we all eat gefilte fish. The largest population of practicing Muslims is in Indonesia. Even pre Islam middle easterners celebrated some Jewish holidays, both peoples are very religious & both have similarities. Completely rational to think & understand. As a Maghrebi Jew I find it quite beautiful & humbling to see this unity.
@Morgenstern505
@Morgenstern505 2 жыл бұрын
Phillip dropping knowledge like crazy these days
@lionelchan1601
@lionelchan1601 2 жыл бұрын
Peripatetic or direct :)?
@DarthBane959
@DarthBane959 2 жыл бұрын
Fphillip
@SeekersofUnity
@SeekersofUnity 2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful episode Filip. It’s a pleasure to be exploring these great thinkers and moments alongside you. We have much to learn from them. Ramadan Mubarak. Love, Zevi
@jacovawernett3077
@jacovawernett3077 2 жыл бұрын
Malkut. Schlama...
@salamatlawal4229
@salamatlawal4229 2 жыл бұрын
Uninboti nbiin tiboon.👍🏼
@sagaramskp
@sagaramskp 2 жыл бұрын
After this video I'm coming to both of your channels.
@al-islam5669
@al-islam5669 2 жыл бұрын
Ramadan Mubarak bit got me! Hope things are good :)
@mattinaq
@mattinaq 2 жыл бұрын
Incredible output this week and timely given It’s both Ramadan and Passover. Much love!
@noneofurbusiness5223
@noneofurbusiness5223 2 жыл бұрын
. . .and Easter
@brandonfrench9379
@brandonfrench9379 2 жыл бұрын
Would it be possible to explore the early Christian pietists, the Desert Fathers, of the same region? It would be wonderful to see if there was a continuity of practice between the early Christian ascetics to the Sufis to the Jewish-Sufi mystics.
@icysaracen3054
@icysaracen3054 2 жыл бұрын
I love how you are unlocking the mysteries of the Islamic world 🌍
@jacovawernett3077
@jacovawernett3077 2 жыл бұрын
Mysteries of the Islamic world. The world is not a mystery.
@Trysomieflexntjes
@Trysomieflexntjes 2 жыл бұрын
@@jacovawernett3077 what are you trying to do?
@alexandershepard2273
@alexandershepard2273 2 жыл бұрын
Excellent video, I am a doctoral student in Islamic studies and gave a paper at a zoom conference organized by Leiden University this previous summer on this very topic.
@phirion6341
@phirion6341 2 жыл бұрын
Hey, I'm also from Leiden Uni ☺️👋
@garrofwar148
@garrofwar148 2 жыл бұрын
It’s really touching to see how the Religious Studies community(?) has grown so much over the past several years on KZfaq. It’s rich and in-depth, academic yet accessible, and most importantly: kind and honest. Religion for Breakfast, Esoterica, Let’s Talk Religion, and so many others have made my life infinitely richer. God Bless :)
@AjitTheUndefeatable
@AjitTheUndefeatable 9 ай бұрын
SAME!
@lewiakk5844
@lewiakk5844 2 жыл бұрын
I never understood how some rabbis said that prostration isn’t a Jewish concept it’s all over the TaNaCH, Mishnah and both Talmuds.
@iantaylor9586
@iantaylor9586 2 жыл бұрын
My understanding is that prostration bore too much similarity to the services that were performed in the Holy Temple. There are a lot of laws that prohibit performing or appearing to perform these rituals outside of the temple. Even today when we Jews prostrate ourselves on Yom Kippur, it can’t be done directly on a stone floor, to prevent the appearance of recreating the temple service.
@lewiakk5844
@lewiakk5844 2 жыл бұрын
@@iantaylor9586 prostration on stone isn’t allowed because it’s like idolatry not since it’s like the temple service. The law was made when the temple was around.
@StockyDude
@StockyDude 2 жыл бұрын
@@lewiakk5844 If you believe the Torah stories and chronology, the law was made before the temple. It was practiced while the nation of Israel was still wandering the desert before entering the promised land.
@goldengun9970
@goldengun9970 2 жыл бұрын
@علي ياسرJews went to a lot more places after the destruction of the temple than 4 middle eastern countries and some also never left Israel. Also just as promised in the tanach G-d has brought us back with both Israel in 1948 and unifying Jerusalem in 1967
@jmpht854
@jmpht854 2 жыл бұрын
Maybe you've done this already and I've missed it, but a video looking at the overlap between this, Orthodox Christian mysticism - particularly the East Roman Hesychasts with their divine light from Tabor - and the Sufi parallels would be fascinating!
@othmaneantaki4931
@othmaneantaki4931 2 жыл бұрын
The level of intellect you provide in this channel is unparalleled I just want to say thank you please more and more and more
@jackpayne4658
@jackpayne4658 2 жыл бұрын
Abraham's own son Obadyah wrote the fascinating, deeply Sufistic 'Al-Maqala al-Hawdiyya' or 'The Treatise of the Pool'. An English translation was published by Octagon Press in 1981.
@LetsTalkReligion
@LetsTalkReligion 2 жыл бұрын
Yes! Very cool book!
@ThisUnifiedField
@ThisUnifiedField 2 жыл бұрын
You, like Dr. Sledge of Esotericia, are a joy to listen to you! Thank you
@sapir6515
@sapir6515 2 жыл бұрын
Sufism and Judaism share a lot in common as someone who studies Judaism and is interesting in Sufism (especially the kabbalistic part that focuses on the meaning of things in life)...
@hichamal-maghribi4600
@hichamal-maghribi4600 2 жыл бұрын
all sects that claim to be islamic are a product of jews
@greentube1357
@greentube1357 5 ай бұрын
As the Video says it was inspired by Islamic sufism he was just inspired and brought into its community
@charlesrae3793
@charlesrae3793 2 жыл бұрын
Be as cool and contrarian as you like! It's fascinating to explore the not so well-known byways of religious thought. Thanks for introducing us to this Maimonides, unjustly overshadowed by his father.
@user-px7lk8wh9d
@user-px7lk8wh9d 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Filip! This is brilliant, i very much enjoyed your lecture
@trudojo
@trudojo 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for introducing us to Seekers of Unity. I've been searching for something like that channel for a long time.
@fractalshift
@fractalshift 2 жыл бұрын
I watched them all and really like the approach. Excellent explanations from all three of you!
@goindabongo1721
@goindabongo1721 2 жыл бұрын
I cant help but be astonished by your work. Thank you for your effort in educating me.
@InqlabZindabad
@InqlabZindabad 2 жыл бұрын
Excellent presentation as always.
@josef2012
@josef2012 2 жыл бұрын
Appreciate your work,as always 🙏 💗
@Pleasedunkmeintheoceanagain
@Pleasedunkmeintheoceanagain 2 жыл бұрын
Dudes! Seriously so excited to watch this!!!! :) thank you!
@michaelrosenfeld8940
@michaelrosenfeld8940 2 жыл бұрын
It’s clear from the Talmud, and completely without any form of disagreement that the original way Jews prayed included bowing and prostrating in a very SIMILAR way to the way that Muslims do. It is also clear from the Mishnah Torah that R’ Moses Maimonides beloved that Jews should should continue this ancient practice of theirs and it seems that that was the common practice that he grew up with. That form of bowing was not reintroduced by R’ Abraham due to Islamic influence.
@jillybe1873
@jillybe1873 2 жыл бұрын
Also we do this in UK school nativity plays lol
@urbandiscount
@urbandiscount 2 жыл бұрын
Yes. He explains that. Please watch the video
@peterbeater012
@peterbeater012 Жыл бұрын
Please don’t mind her. She’s a woman.
@Ben-jq3ov
@Ben-jq3ov Жыл бұрын
Jews had to stop it because the temple was destroyed
@MohamedEzekiel
@MohamedEzekiel 2 жыл бұрын
The background Music is so soothing. You are a great Musician as well. Thank you for all the knowledge you spread. May god bless you.
@zuhairnathani5326
@zuhairnathani5326 2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant ! Look forward to more on the subject.
@notadane
@notadane 2 жыл бұрын
This channel keeps surprising me. Excellent.
@parvinpeerwani7873
@parvinpeerwani7873 2 жыл бұрын
Excellent video thanks for your effort to enlighten the readers.
@TheAzizalykhan
@TheAzizalykhan 2 жыл бұрын
👍🏼
@hulyaasal7523
@hulyaasal7523 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for your valuable information and professional teaching
@micahttt
@micahttt Ай бұрын
I just read an article regarding this. I'm glad I saw your video about this subject.
@Liesl_Cigarboxguitar
@Liesl_Cigarboxguitar 2 жыл бұрын
This was indeed fascinating! I was gripped throughout the whole video. Thank you very much
@Figue-
@Figue- 2 жыл бұрын
This was really interesting, thank you !
@user-kq8od8ly5d
@user-kq8od8ly5d 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for surprising me always by your magnificent videos
@diego.m1398
@diego.m1398 2 жыл бұрын
I love your content and music so much Filip 🖤 thank you brother
@LetsTalkReligion
@LetsTalkReligion 2 жыл бұрын
That is very kind of you! Thank you!
@CamelCreators
@CamelCreators 2 жыл бұрын
Thank You Sir for Your Valuable and Informative Video strengthen Our Thirst.
@DreamyPonies
@DreamyPonies 2 жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed this one! Thank you ☺️
@kashfiahasanchura5566
@kashfiahasanchura5566 2 жыл бұрын
In love with these detailed videos ♥🌺
@robertschlesinger1342
@robertschlesinger1342 Жыл бұрын
Excellent video. Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.
@Uzair_Of_Babylon465
@Uzair_Of_Babylon465 2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job
@LetsTalkReligion
@LetsTalkReligion 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@robertschlesinger1342
@robertschlesinger1342 2 жыл бұрын
Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.
@ancientwisdom108
@ancientwisdom108 7 ай бұрын
I happened upon your channel just yesterday and have been captivated since. Amazing stuff! Thank you. I was hoping to learn more about you in the about section of your channel but I see no option for that. Blessings from Florida.🙏🌍🕊🕊
@samwill7259
@samwill7259 2 жыл бұрын
Any populations living in close quarters and good order will eventually begin to take ideas from one another, it is one of mankind's many realities.
@joshuafriedman6829
@joshuafriedman6829 9 ай бұрын
I seriously feel like I'm learning a historical shiur. Very very very well done, omG
@dustinzozaya4144
@dustinzozaya4144 2 жыл бұрын
Amazing! Thank you!!
@BcClarity
@BcClarity 2 жыл бұрын
3 hard working humans in 3 nations seeking to bring a deeper Understanding to our Soul's Evolvement. This is Sophia embodied. Thank you all. Justin, Zevi. and Fillip/
@hakim_alrooh
@hakim_alrooh 2 жыл бұрын
Tack så mycket
@LetsTalkReligion
@LetsTalkReligion 2 жыл бұрын
Glad att du gillar den :)
@hakim_alrooh
@hakim_alrooh 2 жыл бұрын
Jag följer dig och mycket stolt. Är mycket intresserad av ämnet.
@bernardcornellisvanmeijere4375
@bernardcornellisvanmeijere4375 2 жыл бұрын
Great video man!
@LetsTalkReligion
@LetsTalkReligion 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@bernardcornellisvanmeijere4375
@bernardcornellisvanmeijere4375 2 жыл бұрын
@@LetsTalkReligion should you find yourself in Israel let me and the community know, I live in Safed and I would love to show you around the place!
@starcapture3040
@starcapture3040 2 жыл бұрын
Free palestine! Free Safed!
@michaelb2132
@michaelb2132 2 жыл бұрын
Abraham Maimonides book "How to serve God" is basically an instruction manual for achieving prophecy through perfection of the virtues.
@baronesselsavonfreytag-lor1134
@baronesselsavonfreytag-lor1134 2 жыл бұрын
Finally got to finish watching. Eid Mubarak 🙏❤️🤗
@justinbirkholz7814
@justinbirkholz7814 2 жыл бұрын
What an interesting episode! As important and prolific as Moses Maimonides was I still find Abraham's life and work more interesting. After watching this I am convinced that I need to look into him further.
@positivepolitics1
@positivepolitics1 2 жыл бұрын
Really fascinating! Thanks!
@lukemillerhowes3284
@lukemillerhowes3284 2 жыл бұрын
Sufi mystics remind me of the Catholic monks in Britain that live far away from the population and practice strict regimes and fasts they baptised many pagans using similar methods to the sufis. Interesting similarities
@LetsTalkReligion
@LetsTalkReligion 2 жыл бұрын
There are some paralells, definitely!
@dustinzozaya4144
@dustinzozaya4144 2 жыл бұрын
This episode has thrown me into a rabbit hole
@OscarDiaz-mx8ik
@OscarDiaz-mx8ik 2 жыл бұрын
This makes me wonder If there have been Christian Sufi mystics, so excited to watch this episode rn
@johanna-hypatiacybeleia2465
@johanna-hypatiacybeleia2465 2 жыл бұрын
Francis of Assisi, Ramón Llull, and San Juan de la Cruz, according to some
@abedmarachli7345
@abedmarachli7345 2 жыл бұрын
Sufi is an Arabic word that means serenity of the heart from other than God. This knowledge has no end. In the end, you know yourself and who you are. You are a drop in a sea that has no coast, forming what is called God. You are he and he is you. God and how he appears in infinite forms, and unlike Christianity, God does not limit God to mercy and love, they have 99 attributes of God that include all appearances in the theater of existence, and here you become a Muslim, i.e. surrender to what comes from thoughts and actions, so if you try to steal, you will steal God, and if you try to lie, you will lie to God, Most of their sciences are etiquette, then etiquette, then etiquette in dealing with God, And they say, whoever abused literature was expelled from the door and returned to the policy of the animals. Practically the idea that you live only you and God and then with time is called the shrine of confusion and then you end and only him remains,I advise you to read this book to get to know the idea of Islamic mysticism, as its idea is that a group of birds decide to search for those who created them and call them the simmerga and destroy the whole world and face difficulties and hunters and die many of them and then in the end realize that they themselves are the simmerga, and there are many wisdoms about the art of literature and dealing with God . www.goodreads.com/ar/book/show/35187179-the-conference-of-the-birds
@gracie99999
@gracie99999 2 жыл бұрын
fundamental requirement would be a belief in God [obviously if communist it wouldn’t work..basically due to no belief]..but there have been and presently are people of all or a combination of faiths practicing from what I understand.. look into Idries SHAHs work if you want
@Ahmed-ef3bg
@Ahmed-ef3bg 2 жыл бұрын
Islamic and Jewish definition of God and monotheism is closer hence adapts easier.
@ilmnaut8032
@ilmnaut8032 2 жыл бұрын
Meister Echkhart was pretty much a Sufi and rejected Trinity as the highest principle.
@heathermichellealexis4064
@heathermichellealexis4064 Жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed this video (topic) thank you for sharing this.
@philipvalentini3112
@philipvalentini3112 2 жыл бұрын
Great lesson!
@dd615
@dd615 2 жыл бұрын
Kabbala Gnostic Sufi state is One. Turn Ecstatic. Bring out the Spring of Wisdom from Heart to the Tongue.
@bryxhem8531
@bryxhem8531 2 жыл бұрын
Fascinating, the same or very similar light and sound meditation was practiced by all of this religious groups in the past. It is all about to get the inner experience and it has nothing to do with outer rites and rituals. Today it is called Surat Shabad Yoga. Filip, it would be a great topic to compare all these mystical movements and find what is common in them. You will find most of them practiced the inner sound and light meditation. People used to get initiation by their Master, Sheik, so they can get the inner Gnosis, or Baptism.
@lordwolfgangjosephuskaiser6778
@lordwolfgangjosephuskaiser6778 2 жыл бұрын
Great Video thank you very much. Ibn Abi Usaibias Encyclopedia, Ibn al Quftis (Ibn al Koptis) Encyclopedia about the Wise Men/ Hukama/ Philosophers, Abi Suleiman al Sijistanis Sewan al Hikma/ the Vessel of Wisdom are three of the most important and interesting encyclopedias about medieval biographies in general and especially about the biographies of Philosophers and Scientists.
@iantaylor9586
@iantaylor9586 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for another outstanding work. One thing I wasn’t quite clear on: what made Abraham’s Sufi-Judaism non-kabbalistic? Was it the fact that it didn’t use any of the standard kabbalistic terminology in describing its world-view?
@LetsTalkReligion
@LetsTalkReligion 2 жыл бұрын
It has no connection to the tradition(s) of Kabbalah (their theoretical ideas, terminology etc), which developed primarily in Spain and southern France during the 13th century. That includes both the Zoharic Kabbalah and the Prophetic Kabbalah of Abraham Abulafia. The Pietists based their ideas and expressed them in entirely different ways.
@raphaelreichmannrolim25
@raphaelreichmannrolim25 2 жыл бұрын
Abulafia*
@ITSME-xx3oo
@ITSME-xx3oo 2 жыл бұрын
@@LetsTalkReligion isnt the kabbalah old babylonian technology
@LetsTalkReligion
@LetsTalkReligion 2 жыл бұрын
@@ITSME-xx3oo No that sounds like one of the popular myths about Kabbalah. Kabbalah is very much an intellectual movement based in 12-13th century Judaism, specifically in Iberia and France.
@Xaviergonzalez85
@Xaviergonzalez85 Жыл бұрын
@@LetsTalkReligion Iberia is Portugal
@stonegrit
@stonegrit 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the wise insight into these religion's. Normally KZfaq videos divide these religion's & that courses trouble for these three faith's (divide & rule)
@amitaiuriarte9392
@amitaiuriarte9392 Жыл бұрын
Another fascinating video. Thank you for sharing your scholarship. Have you ever considered a video on G. I. Gurdjieff and what has come out of his writings and practices?
@joannkuhr997
@joannkuhr997 2 жыл бұрын
Very interesting. Thanks.
@richardbaroff4911
@richardbaroff4911 2 жыл бұрын
A really wonderful video of a relatively little known philosopher, the son of the titanic intellectual figure of Moses Maimonides.
@ientrancedi
@ientrancedi 2 жыл бұрын
I had no idea
@sereensisk9626
@sereensisk9626 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@mahaq30medicin
@mahaq30medicin 2 жыл бұрын
Salam Shalom 🤲🤲🌙 Muslim Jewish I was surprised to see that our Jewish brother of same family of Abraham wear head caps as a sign of respecting prophets🤲🤲🤲💕 love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩 France 🇫🇷
@goldengun9970
@goldengun9970 2 жыл бұрын
We do not wear head coverings to respect prophets. To remind us that there is a G-d above us
@ZachVanHarrisJR
@ZachVanHarrisJR 2 жыл бұрын
*”thank you for creating this content and sharing it” ✌🏾❤️🙏🏾✡️ - MELL DUNEY 616*
@laylaali5977
@laylaali5977 2 жыл бұрын
Incredible I have never heard of this movement.
@myspiritway
@myspiritway 2 жыл бұрын
Wow man you got you hair done ✔️ love it
@Keter-royalerestorations
@Keter-royalerestorations 2 жыл бұрын
very good class
@tzvi7989
@tzvi7989 Жыл бұрын
it's quite clear that Abraham was trying to revive Essene minhagim and practices which may be similar to sufism because the two movements were quite similar in terms of practice and ideology in both religions
@dovygoodguy1296
@dovygoodguy1296 2 жыл бұрын
There was an additional concern that people would neglect the main occupation of Talmudic and Torah study as opposed to pietism.
@scotzer
@scotzer 2 жыл бұрын
I love that you describe Zevi and Justin as "normy" and yourself as "cool and contrarian" in your respective presentations of of Maimonides senior and junior.
@elidrissii
@elidrissii 2 жыл бұрын
Can you link their channels? I can't do a KZfaq search with just those terms, and I don't know these people, but I like these types of channels.
@scotzer
@scotzer 2 жыл бұрын
@@elidrissii kzfaq.info. That one is for Justin.
@scotzer
@scotzer 2 жыл бұрын
@@elidrissii kzfaq.info. This is for Zevi.
@elidrissii
@elidrissii 2 жыл бұрын
@@scotzer Thanks mate.
@scotzer
@scotzer 2 жыл бұрын
@@elidrissii Glad to oblige.
@matejcihak8171
@matejcihak8171 2 жыл бұрын
Perfect!
@786AbdulSalamKhan
@786AbdulSalamKhan 2 жыл бұрын
Could you do a video on Nasir al Din Tusi? Especially on his doctrines of the hereafter, paradise & hell?
@nowhereman6019
@nowhereman6019 2 жыл бұрын
"Normy" -Filip Holm of Let's Talk Religion
@Visible-soul
@Visible-soul 2 жыл бұрын
I honestly just want peace among the ahlul kitab, fairness , understanding a mutual communion! No more hate! No more fear to pray in places of worship, no one is placed higher or lower in fair treatment.
@davidlissowski5030
@davidlissowski5030 2 жыл бұрын
'In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion' (Rumi).. Find and follow the mystic path of your religion.. The beginning of the mystic path is law (Jew) - wilderness (follow Jesus) - pilgrimage to Mecca (Muslim) - asceticism (Buddhish), until you reach love.. Where all is one.
@jamiegrieve5875
@jamiegrieve5875 2 жыл бұрын
Gosh how wonderful is your analogy or explanation. It goes from the religious binding law to the spiritual freedom of love and life..
@zoolakes17
@zoolakes17 2 жыл бұрын
I love love, divine love of Allah. But I doubt Rumi actually said this. Just seems like another one of Nicholson's falsified translations.
@davidlissowski5030
@davidlissowski5030 2 жыл бұрын
@@zoolakes17 Every religion has an underlying esoteric path to Allah (God, Jehovah, Nirvana).. For the Muslim: 1st step is mystic journey (of understanding) to Mecca (led by law).. 2nd step is to leave Mecca (law) behind and journey to Medina (led by love).. 3rd step is to leave Medina (love) behind and journey to the furthest mosque Al Aqsa Jerusalem (heaven).. 'For those who have ears to hear'.
@user-yp7ke4et7o
@user-yp7ke4et7o 2 жыл бұрын
@@davidlissowski5030 except buddhism has no concept of god. Don't mix falsehood with truth just because it looks attractive.
@c.a.t.732
@c.a.t.732 2 жыл бұрын
The Buddha taught a Middle Way between asceticism and self-indulgence. And Nirvana is not the same as Allah.
@zakariakaleem3271
@zakariakaleem3271 2 жыл бұрын
Have you ever thought of doing a video on the Shia/Sufi practices of Punjab, (cause there are some really absurd and unique practices here, especially in the past) for e.g the men of my father's tribe up until the 1960's refused to cut their hair and beards, cause they falsely believed the propeth never cut his hair
@subhanhasan990tsikfm
@subhanhasan990tsikfm 2 жыл бұрын
influence of sikhism?
@zakariakaleem3271
@zakariakaleem3271 2 жыл бұрын
@@subhanhasan990tsikfm quite the other eay around, Sikhism was likely influenced by Islam, Hindusim and native pubjabi customs and practices
@fanouth06
@fanouth06 2 жыл бұрын
Yogis are not cutting there hairs for spiritual and energetical reasons. The sikhs tell the same and also say they don't want to alter God's creations that is their body. Interesting !
@zakariakaleem3271
@zakariakaleem3271 2 жыл бұрын
@@fanouth06 again, northern Jatts used to not cut their hair as part of their tribal customs, even after converting to Islam we kept these traditions but re-contextualized thorough the framework of Islam
@zakariakaleem3271
@zakariakaleem3271 2 жыл бұрын
@RC Well not all Jats, but my paternal tribe didn't use to cut their hair and beards
@waynestewart3232
@waynestewart3232 2 жыл бұрын
"The faithful cannot be kept within the veil."
@shauniebnaturalista6672
@shauniebnaturalista6672 2 жыл бұрын
At this point I don't know whether Justin sent me to Philip or vice versa. I just keep going back and forth.
@tawan20082008
@tawan20082008 2 жыл бұрын
thanks
@ElectricalMonk3558
@ElectricalMonk3558 2 жыл бұрын
Please do a video about rumi.
@matthewmcneany
@matthewmcneany 2 жыл бұрын
The intro reminds me very much of xkcd 2501 wherein geochemicsts attempt to accout for how little a lay person is familiar with their field of expertese and fail to do so sufficently.
@vjagpal
@vjagpal 2 жыл бұрын
All of this sounds like prequel of Sikhism.
@sagaramskp
@sagaramskp 2 жыл бұрын
Yes. Sikhism is synergism of Islam and Hinduism. Guru Nanak had visited middle East and even Mecca during his spiritual journey
@user-yp7ke4et7o
@user-yp7ke4et7o 2 жыл бұрын
Sikhism took bits from many religions (specially islam and hinduism) and turned itself as a new religion.
@Darisiabgal7573
@Darisiabgal7573 2 жыл бұрын
"the soul will percieve a grandeur which will dazzle . . . . . " Seek and you will find, find and you will marvel, marvel and you will rest. One of the various versions of the most attested saying of Yeshua of Nazara.
@skiesboi
@skiesboi 2 жыл бұрын
This is fascinating, thanks for presenting this, as you said, understudied bit of history. I just want to make one note, ides, in Miamonides, means "the son of" so Moshe was Moshe Miamonides because his father was Miamon. It does make sense to call Avraham "Miamonides" because he was Miamon's grandson. In Hebrew Moshe is Moshe Ben Miamon, and Avraham is Avraham Ben Moshe
@urbandiscount
@urbandiscount 2 жыл бұрын
They're all called "Maimuni"
@tzvi7989
@tzvi7989 Жыл бұрын
yeah but when you have an ancestor with a prominent surname/moniker you're gonna wanna keep it even if your actual hebrew name would be Avraham ben Moshe
@milascave2
@milascave2 2 жыл бұрын
Moses Maimonedes also was very influential on Christian and Islamic theology.
@haideraliibnakhlaq8823
@haideraliibnakhlaq8823 2 жыл бұрын
No, Islamic Theology heavily influenced the works of maimonides ( musa bin maymoon)
@kausamsalam8543
@kausamsalam8543 2 ай бұрын
Islamic culture and theology influenced Maimonides. The scholar also spoke Arabic fluently. Maimonides shifted from the traditional Old Testament points of view, and became closer in philosophical terms to Islamic ideals of virtue and justice. It is essential to give credit where credit is due--this aspect of history is quite puzzling, where cultural appropriations become commonplace. Those who want power before anything else tend to sway the good aspects of human civilization in their own favor until the original ideals become gray and irrelevant. Maimonides himself chose to practice his good ethics and newer understanding of the older Jewish traditions in the diplomatic Court of Saladin rather than the more bigoted court of Richard the Lion Hearted -the physician chose to collaborate with Muslims so that his own Faith practices would not be degraded or made to seem strange. Islamic Spain actually allowed snd promoted the equal opportunity of intellectual growth for all Faiths. It was the origin of Islam, the Quran, (still is), that talks about the Almighty (we call Allah), as the Great Unifier of humanity. There is no Biblical verse that unites all races as Quran does, as uncomfortable as this is for many extremists of other religions. Sura 5:49-51, “To thee (Muslims), We sent the Scripture in truth, confirming the Scripture that came before it, and guarding it in safety: so judge between them by what Allah hath revealed, and follow not their Vain Desires, (such as Spanish Inquisition), diverging from the Truth that has come to thee. /To EACH among you have We (Allah), prescribed a Law and an OPEN WAY. /If Allah hath so willed, He would have made you a single People, but His PLAN is to TEST you in what He hath given you, (Holy Quran): so STRIVE (jihad towards good works) as in a Race (not to think you are superior), in ALL VIRTUES. The GOAL of you all is to Allah; it is the Truth of the matters in which you dispute.” This means that one’s virtues should not become a braggadocio or a placard for one’s character which all the Sufis knew from Saadi to Hafiz to Rumi to Iqbal and hundreds and hundreds more. Bihar also has many Sufi thinkers who wrote about Allah and their relationship with their Creator as far back as the 10th and 11th centuries. In Sufism, one becomes tainted if one harms anyone, for all are creatures of Allah/Divine Source. (Even animals are to be had in due proportion for hunting for entertainment is forbidden in Islam. Sura 5:35, “We ordained for the Children of Israel that if ANYONE slew a person -unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land -it would be as if he slew the whole People: and if ANYONE SAVED a Life, it would be as if he Saved the Life of the Whole People. Then, although there came to them Our Apostles with Clear Signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit EXCESSES in the land” (such as genocide). Note the distinction between Quran and Fellow Scriptures -all religions can no longer be lumped together: Sura 5:48, “We ordained for them: Life for life, eye for eye, nose for nose, ear for ear, tooth for tooth, and wounds equal for equal.” (Traditional way of thinking for most people). BUT IF ANYONE forgoes (gives up), the retaliation by Way of Charity, it is an atonement for himself. And if ANYONE fail to judge by the Light of what Allah hath revealed, they are no better than wrongdoers./And in their footsteps, We sent Jesus (Isa), son of Mary/Maryam, confirming the Law that had come before him:” These guidance and nurturing verses, particularly , remind one to not become brutish or cold or arrogant as warring people. They also inspire one to enter happily service-rendering professions such as doctors, nurses, teachers, and social workers-and in Islamic culture, a scientist -(many Muslim scientists in 9th, 10th, and 11th centuries propelled new peace-loving movements that helped the European Renaissance flourish-has parallels to a dervish or a Sufi thinker who can heal people from themselves, for Allah teaches that “He will not change the condition of a People, until they Strive to change themselves.” Extremist Muslims of today think that Sufis are just some liberal, poetic group, but they are not: they can be strict followers of Quran and Sunnah while being harmonious with all people of varied walks of life.
@markusdag7863
@markusdag7863 2 жыл бұрын
May I ask you what confession do you have? And if you have one do you practicise?
@kashmirfacts9517
@kashmirfacts9517 2 жыл бұрын
Can you please make a video on Wahdat-al-Shuhud of Sheikh Ahmad Sirhindi.
@EliAbramzon
@EliAbramzon 2 жыл бұрын
In his Mishne Torah Maimonides writes that prayer is to include prostration and sitting in rows facing the ark of the Torah. Both practices were abandoned by Sephardic communities. Maybe it happed just because of the similarity to Moslem forms of prayer.
@saadabbas8976
@saadabbas8976 2 жыл бұрын
The Samaritans (Cutheans) By Yosef Eisen
@kirillzapple
@kirillzapple Жыл бұрын
REAPENT ! All you heathen, I was sent by Let's Talk Religion 😅👍 Sorry brotha I am not going to traide your channel for jewish Esoterica or for New Age type of deal with Seekers of Unity. Thou shalt not sway to the left nor to the right from thou middle ground! Thank you brother, when I can I will support your channel. You are doing hella of a great job! 👍
@kalsevol4335
@kalsevol4335 2 жыл бұрын
Can you please make a video about the bektashi order?
@shaunpaulwallace
@shaunpaulwallace 2 жыл бұрын
🙏👨‍🌾 Blessings to all.
@rljpdx
@rljpdx 2 жыл бұрын
oh my god, you do sing "aware"... ;) i suppose it could be a recording error lol fascinating it is...
@CptEtgar
@CptEtgar 2 жыл бұрын
i've read somewhere that Aleister Crowley said on his death bed "i'm perplexed"... what's the story behind the Thelma religion ? is there a video about it?
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