AhlulBayt News Agency

source : ABNA Exclusive
Monday

15 June 2009

7:30:00 PM
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If we are after Global Discourse we must think Globally

Ayatollah Jawadi Amuli said: “we expect Qom Seminary to hold the conference on ‘transcendental politics on transcendental theosophy’ on the basis of theoretical theosophy”.

In a meeting with the members of the committee of holding this conference, he said, “this conference must not be held on political grounds or on the basis of practical theosophy. This is because if it is held on such grounds, its mission will be limited.” Reported ISKA information Website. He emphasized that the committee must focus on the scientific outcome of the conference as its main objective. Referring to the debt of practical theosophy to theoretical theosophy he said, “Since the burden is mainly on the shoulder of theoretical theosophy therefore concentration has to be made on theoretical theosophy as providing the theoretical grounds for practical theosophy”. “If we do not give” he added, “much importance to the theoretical dimension we will be empty-handed while handling practical theosophy, natural sciences and mathematics”. Referring to the scientific situation at universities, he said that many were of the view that our universities are not Islamic. This is because, according to him, university sciences did not have any link to stable theoretical grounds adding, “except for their pious professors and students these universities do not have any real scientific position. If we want to have a global discourse we must think globally moving towards normal sciences with a religious outlook”. Pointing out that public was guided by elite and elite was guided by those who were particularly elite, he said, “if a scientific work is produced in the seminary, foreigners translate it before the seminary even notices it. This is because the world intellectuals are on the lookout to see seminary intellectual products.” Hujjatulislam Najaf Lakzai, scientific secretary of the conference on transcendental politics in transcended theosophy, gave an account of the measures taken for holding this conference. End Item/ 129