what he meant maybe we need to discuss
it so you you have to know the terms and
then the proposition now he's making an
argument that's a proposition as a
categorical statement right it's a
declarative statement all men are
created equal
he's not saying maybe all men are
created equal I think all men are
created equal in my opinion all men are
created equal those are different ways
of saying he's saying all men are
created equal categorical declarative
Universal statement we have to know what
those terms are and then we have to know
okay what's his reasoning
what's his reasoning what so now that's
the third level so that is that that's a
science that inshallah you guys are
going to learn before you get out of
here because it's very important you
know one of the things about logic is no
longer taught generally and it's it's
created a lot of havoc because people
can't think any more clearly and and our
tradition is very committed to logic I
mean the Shem CEO was a almost a
universal you know the pseudonym in
North Africa I mean one of the things
about Sheldon Bay yeah that makes him
distinct amongst a lot of scholars I've
seen is he really knows logic really
well so when he when he reasons he's
just it's like knowing chess logics like
knowing chess but you know you don't
just know the rules because everybody we
can all reason and we're humans like
yeah every game you can make an argument
you can make an argument a car give its
all the time but when that's there's a
difference between knowing the rules of
chess and knowing the strategies of
chess right because if you know the
strategies of chess you can end a chess
match in about three or four moves with
somebody who doesn't know the strategies
of chest and and logic is not simply to
win arguments it's it's really a means a
tool to pursue the truth and and that's
why you know that's one of the things he
says that you
should not ever want to read a book
critically just to win an argument with
the author no you should be open to
being convinced Imam Shafi said I never
debated anybody but I hope and prayed
that the truth would manifest on his
tongue so I would have to submit to it
and that's a whole other way of looking
at this thing
but he's assuming that you know
traditionally people study grammar
rhetoric logic they understood
conditional sentences they understood
universals particulars
they understood definitions and fib
Lee's equivocations all these type
things are really important in language
and they're all things they're tools of
learning that you need to acquire and
and the better you get at them the
better you'll be at it reading and the
better you'll be at critical reading
because one of the things about all
these men that one of the things that
they share if you go into any of these
books like imam sowwy you know wrote
this book is a commentary on his ships
book you know he is going to assume that
you understand you know logic I mean
he's just going to assume it and he's
going to assume that you understand
mmm you know al Cathy come on fess up
you know for hone Mandel Harlan repeat
Amanda body ie o'clock level JJ dolly
come first Sara B he al bhaji you know
so now he's defining what's he mean by
al kathira wa ha meter fill JJ the other
hard men who feel bad at Mohammed Farah
dear al owal al-qadir men who feel
better dil de la Roche that was a
mineral je dominar ad hoc Oh baby so
these are all terms that you have to
understand he's talking about jagged of
foodstuff the good of a foodstuff right
and the rowdy is the lower quality al al
Holly IL Cathy ermine who feel better
the majority of it in a country illa the
everybo shade that was up energy yet Oh
Mina rowdy yep yup ah Bobby so you can
also use what's between the two and then
he goes further into the commentary al
qadir here accordion for her
means the same at heart and some say it
means the as fee attack level je de la
it's the heart of the jade only so you
know these are like this is like a
telegraph
I mean he's using you know it's like
it's like texting he's using minimal
language there and that's the way the
later writers are the earlier writers
are much easier to read but they're just
they kept distilling it distilling it
distilling it right because here see in
when he wrote this book this is a
six-volume when he wrote this book it
was assumed that you memorize the text
this is a commentary on a text that's
about 150 pages and he assumed you
memorize the text and then what what the
commentary is is those are for the text
to be memory pegs for the meanings but
this book is a condensation another book
which is called the mood Awana right
which i should be here somewhere
anyway it's the module one is like about
this size so they took the madonna and
took it down to about this size so they
took a book like this and summarized it
to this and then had to write this to
explain it so you're back where you
started but the reason they did that was
because in the old days they actually
memorize this and they couldn't do that
anymore so they started writing these
abridgements to keep the memory you know
to simplify it so even though it was
much smaller it was actually a lot
harder than this but the memory was
easier and so this was just to explain
what you had memorized because people
couldn't memorize that anymore so that's
the way the muslim tradition kind of got
into these summaries and glosses and
glosses on glosses and like that but
they're assuming at this level he's
writing in the two hundred years ago
he's he's assuming that you have
mastered a certain set of sciences he
and he's not writing for some guy that's
got a secondary degree from you know a
high school or even a college degree
now dine chumps or at Damascus
University they can't read these books
you know that you have to study people
you have to study with people who have
studied the books and that's why the
onus and that and he talks about that he
said some books you need a teacher
they're just not going to work without a
teacher he says if it's a great book
generally it should be understandable
it's a lot harder with a teacher without
a teacher but he said you can do it if
you put the work in and that and that's
true but I'll conclude sorry about I
know there's a lot of question but I'll
conclude a bahai Anatole he D one of the
great scholars of Islam he said you
illuminate hombre an adequate about the
akka famine is that I could do me that
that simple people think you know
inexperienced people think that books
will lead the one of intellect to
understanding your vulnerable Moodle and
it could teddy a family it that I could
allow me you'll come to know these
knowledge --is right well may other
Libyan afiyah
how are me BA how year at Oakland
Fushimi well my real Jahoda be under
fear how a my behavior at Oakland Fahim
but the ignoramus doesn't know that in
these books are ambiguities that will
confuse even the most intelligent of
people either um to the Illuma be lady
shaken
balota Anna Surratt or mr. Keamy hotel
to be sorrow more Oh Erica had a Serie A
Burnham into a mahaki me if you try to
learn the this knowledge you know
revelation and the knowledge is that go
with it if you try to learn this without
a teacher you will go astray and affairs
will become so confusing to you that
you'll be more astray than Thomas the
physician and it's referring to a famous
Arabic tradition of Toma
al Hakim he was a man who inherited
books from his father his father was a
physician who died he inherited his
library so he read and learned medicine
through books
and he had a book that said and habita
so that that doäôt woman could lead uh
the black seed is a cure for every
disease but there were two dots the the
Scrivener put two dots instead of one on
had that so it said I'll hire you to
soda the black snake is a cure for every
disease so he went to find a black snake
and they call Black Mamba it's very
poisonous snake and he tried to catch it
and it bit him and he died so they
that's their metaphor for anyway so
behind the Columbia time decay eyeshadow
under you don't hit that that's a little
cooler to we take talking a lot head-on
so I'm gonna do the next one will be
it'll be a continuation on this but I'm
going to go into more detail and and
we'll do some more poems and and also
I'm gonna read with you a speech to
analyze as well alright sorry it's just
a it's very hard obviously to follow
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