THE METHODOLOGY OF DREAM INTERPRETATION (TE'VILU-LEHADIS) IN THE LIGHT OF ISLAMIC TRADITION
Being a Qur’anic-Hadith category the interpretations of dreams is also a part of Islamic belief and practice. Dreams are not connected to people but to their meaning and as such they must not be a reason for repulsing people. Generally speaking, all dreams should be positively interpreted. Making up and magnifying dreams is a great sin. Bad dreams ...
By Mensur Valjevac
Kur'ansko-hadiski osvrt na značenje hadisa: „Kome sam ja prijatelj i Alija mu je prijatelj“
The closest meaning of the key word „mawla“, mentioned in the following hadith referring to Hazrat Ali: „If I am a person’s mawla then Ali is also his mawla” is familiarity and closeness. Several interpretations of this hadith (sebebul-vurūd) suggest exactly this meaning, and not the meaning of authority transfer and succession, as taught by the Is...
By Mina Valjevac, Mensur Valjevac
Categories of disclosure of Allah Almighty through the Qur'an
Allah Almighty speaks of three ways of delivering and receiving the Message in 51st verse of the chapter: وَ مَا كَانَ لِبَشَرٍ أَنْ يُكَلِّمَهُ اللهُ إِلاَّ وَحْيًا أَوْ مِنْ وَرَاءِ حِجَابٍ أَوْ يُرْسِلَ رَسُولاً فَيُوحِيَ بِإِذْنِهِ مَا يَشَاءُ إِنَّهُ عَلِيٌّ حَكِيمٌ. “No human being is given a chance to be addressed by Allah in more than o...
By Mensur Valjevac
Natural connection between upbringing and education in islamic tradition
Allah’s revelation through the Qur’an and the Messenger, s.a.w.s., is an inexhaustible sea. In this paper we intended these two sources to be dominant. In His Revelation Book Allah says that Ibrahim s.a.w.s. asked Him: "Our Lord! send amongst them an Messenger of their own, who shall rehearse Thy Signs to them and instruct them in scripture and wis...
By Mensur Valjevac
TESAWWUF AS A METHOD OF SPIRITUAL EDUCATION
Tesawwuf is an authentic Islamic science like fiqh, tafsir, hadith, and similar. Tasawwuf is not mysticism, nor philosophy, but the essence of Islamic spirituality. Gnosis and education are its two main determinants, so it is embedded in the core of the Islamic concept of education. This was confirmed by Gazi-Husrev bey, a founder of high religious...
By Mensur Valjevac, Mina Valjevac
KARBALA – A CRITICAL REVIEW
The peace treaty between hadrat Hasan and hadrat Muawiya brought peace to a new Islamic state. According to it, the authority was supposed to be given to hadrat Hasan after hadrat Muawiya, who could not name the commander of the faithful after himself. However, hadrat Muawiya did not adhere to the treaty, but introduced a hereditary monarchy and na...
By Mina Valjevac, Mensur Valjevac
THE MAZDAIST ROOTS OF HERACLITUS’S PHILOSOPHY
Heraclitus is one of the most influential and most controversial thinkers in the human history. His ideas had an impact on the formation and further development of some of the most important and most specific concepts in philosophy, such as idea, dialectics, logos, eternal return, etc. He exerted a significant influence over all great philosophers ...
By Sedad Dizdarević, Mensur Valjevac
Sayyid Jamalluddin Al-Afghani 1254 1314/1838 1897) A forerunner in the interpretation of the Qur’an in the 14th century according to hijra /20th century
Although Sayyid Jamaluddin al-Afghani (1254 1314/1838 1897) hadn’t written his own tafseer, with his works and association with others he had greatly influenced the mufassirs, whose interpretation of the Qur’an had, in many ways, marked the 14th according to hijra / 20th century. Namely, those mufassir, in the first place, include Shaikh Muhammad A...
By Mensur Valjevac
Traditional sources of the last hour signs in the month of ramadan
One sign of the supernatural mission of the last Messenger of Allah’s (s) is the fact that he informed his Companions about everything that would take place before the Judgment Day, in the veracity of which many Muslims and non-Muslims have been convinced numerous times so far. The Qur’an talks indirectly, and the hadith unambiguously, about the ap...
By Mensur Valjevac
The perfect man (al-insa:n al-ka:mil) in the quranic exegesis, hadith tradition and taṣawwuf
The Qur’anic verses and prophetic traditions confirm the physical, ethical and universal perfection of a man. The highest level of perfection belongs to Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, and to his righteous successors. Every man, according to the Sufi teaching, can potentially become perfect, while the main purpose of a perfect man is to serve ...
By Mensur Valjevac