Aspects of the Days of Ignorance Workbook
Aspects of the Days of Ignorance Workbook

Author: Shaykh al-Islam Muhammad Ibn Abdil-Wahhaab

Publisher:

Published: 2019-11-22

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781708514037

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This is the official workbook of the 1441 (2019) Winter Seminar at the Germantown Masjid in Philadelphia. This workbook can now be used to study the recorded lessons from that monumental seminar. The recordings are freely available on the Germantown Masjid''s SoundCloud page: https://soundcloud.com/germantown-masjid/sets/winter-seminar-2019 THE BOOK Masaa''il al-Jaahiliyyah is a unique and powerfully insightful work warning against the worst traits of the days of ignorance, authored by one of the most knowledgeable and authoritative scholars of the past few centuries, Shaykh al-Islam Muhammad ibn ''Abdil-Wahhaab at-Tameemee (may Allah have Mercy on him). Shaykh Saalih ibn ''Abdil-''Azeez Aal ash-Shaykh (may Allah preserve him) said, "These are tremendous points which, no doubt, we are in need of in every time, and especially in this time. Reviewing them and reminding the people about them is a necessity." THE WORKBOOK In this workbook, you will find the original Arabic text of the book, Masaa''il al-Jaahiliyyah, paired with its translation, with ample space to take notes for each point. Appendices in the back provide a chain of transmission for the text, the complete, uninterrupted text of the English translation, and the fully voweled Arabic text of the book as well. THE NEW CHALLENGE You will also find a total of 12 quizzes to challenge your understanding and memorization of this important text. Five daily quizzes with multiple choice questions have been prepared to check your understanding of the lessons of each of the five days of the seminar. A 25-question mastery test awaits you once you have studied the entire book and reviewed the five quizzes. For more advanced students who choose to memorize the Arabic text along with its study, five more daily quizzes and another comprehensive test are also included. The following are some of the topics as cited in the Table of Contents: ASPECT 1: CALLING UPON SAINTS FOR THEIR INTERCESSION ASPECT 2: SPLITTING INTO RELIGIOUS FACTIONS ASPECT 3: DISREGARDING AND OPPOSING THE AUTHORITIES ASPECT 4: TAQLEED: A SHARED PRINCIPLE OF ALL DISBELIEVERS ASPECT 5: THE MAJORITY VOTE: BEING DELUDED BY NUMBERS ASPECT 6: USING THE WAYS OF THE ANCESTORS AS PROOFS ASPECT 7: USING THE RICH AND POWERFUL AS PROOFS ASPECT 8: REJECTING THE TRUTH BECAUSE THE WEAK FOLLOW IT ASPECT 9: TAKING EVIL SCHOLARS AS ROLE MODELS ASPECT 10: CLAIMS ABOUT THE FOLLOWERS OF TRUTH ASPECT 11: USING FALSE ANALOGIES AS PROOFS ASPECT 12: REJECTING SOUND ANALOGIES ASPECT 13: FANATICISM TOWARDS THE SCHOLARS AND RIGHTEOUS ASPECT 14: MISGUIDED NEGATIONS AND AFFIRMATIONS ASPECT 15: PRETENDING NOT TO UNDERSTAND THE TRUTH ASPECT 16: TRADING IN REVELATION FOR BOOKS OF MAGIC ASPECT 17: ATTRIBUTING THEIR OWN FALSEHOOD TO THE PROPHETS ASPECT 18: FALSE AND CONTRADICTORY CLAIMS ASPECT 19: REVILING THE RIGHTEOUS BECAUSE OF THEIR FOLLOWERS ASPECT 20: CONSIDERING MAGIC TRICKS A SIGN OF PIETY ASPECTS 21-22: WHISTLING, CLAPPING, AND FRIVOLITY AS WORSHIP ASPECT 23: BEING DELUDED BY THEIR WORLDLY PROSPERITY ASPECT 24: REJECTING TRUTH BECAUSE THE WEAK EMBRACED IT FIRST ASPECT 25: TAKING THE PREVIOUS ASPECT A STEP FURTHER ASPECT 26: CHANGING THE BOOK OF ALLAH INTENTIONALLY ASPECT 27: INVENTING FALSE SCRIPTURE AND ATTRIBUTING IT TO ALLAH ASPECT 28: NOT ACCEPTING THE TRUTH FROM OUTSIDE THEIR GROUP ASPECT 29: NOT EVEN TRULY PRACTICING THEIR OWN RELIGION ASPECT 30: EACH GROUP REJOICING WITH WHAT THEY HAVE ASPECT 31: HYPOCRITICAL HATRED FOR WHAT THEY ASCRIBE TO ASPECT 32: DESPISING PEOPLE, REJECTING THE TRUTH THEY HAVE ASPECT 33: REJECTING PARTS OF THEIR OWN RELIGION ASPECT 34: EVERY SECT CLAIMED IT WAS THE SAVED ONE... There are a total of 128 aspects to study in the book!

Days of Ignorance
Days of Ignorance

Author: Laila Aljohani

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-07-03

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9927101287

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Is he dead? Medina, Saudi Arabia. A young man, Malek, has been brutally attacked for being of the 'wrong' race. Malek's lover, Leen, waits by his bedside and reflects on their relationship and her life as an unmarried, childless woman. All around her are voices of judgment and concern; in the twenty-first century it is still unforgivable, and dangerous, for a Saudi woman to enter into a relationship with a black man. In the distance US planes hover over Iraq, primed to embark on yet another senseless conflict. Malek's attacker was Leen's brother. Flinging wide a window onto the second holiest Islamic city – a city in which people observe daily prayers and preach equality and justice – Days of Ignorance is a novel about honour, hypocrisy, war and fear. And, glimmering beyond, beneath and behind it all, love.

Holy Ignorance
Holy Ignorance

Author: Roy Olivier

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-01-16

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0190257431

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Olivier Roy, world-renowned authority on Islam and politics, finds in the modern disconnection between faith communities and socio-cultural identities a fertile space for fundamentalism to grow. Instead of freeing the world from religion, secularization has encouraged a kind of holy ignorance to take root, an anti-intellectualism that promises immediate, emotional access to the sacred and positions itself in direct opposition to contemporary pagan culture. The secularization of society was supposed to free people from religion, yet individuals are converting en masse to fundamentalist faiths, such as Protestant evangelicalism, Islamic Salafism, and Haredi Judaism. These religions either reconnect adherents to their culture through casual referents, like halal fast food, or maintain their momentum through purification rituals, such as speaking in tongues, a practice that allows believers to utter a language that is entirely their own. Instead of a return to traditional religious worship, we are now witnessing the individualisation of faith and the disassociation of faith communities from ethnic and national identities. Roy explores the options now available to powers that hope to integrate or control these groups; and whether marginalisation or homogenisation will further divide believers from their culture.

The Power of Ignorance
The Power of Ignorance

Author: Chris Gibbs

Publisher: Brindle and Glass

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781897142134

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Join certified Ig-master Vaguen on the road to bliss. You might think that ignorance comes naturally, but on the contrary, the world conspires to cram our heads full of useless and dangerous know-ledge every day. Fall off this know-ledge into the safe and comforting world of oblivio(n/ousness) by discovering The Power of Ignorance. In his seminars, Vaguen has helped successful people, wealthy people, good-looking people, and people just like you to attain the heights/depths of ignorance. For the first time, his secrets are revealed between the covers of a book. Purchase this reasonably-priced volume and join the ranks of those who understand that a lack of understanding is unimportant. Based on original material and characters by Jeff Sumerel and Sam Reynolds.

The Power of Ignorance
The Power of Ignorance

Author: Dave Trott

Publisher: Harriman House Limited

Published: 2021-02-09

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 085719836X

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“The wise man knows he doesn’t know. The fool doesn’t know he doesn’t know.” Lao Tzu “In the West they only respect experts. But the expert mind is the closed mind.” Shunryu Suzuki What’s the most important step in fixing a puncture? It isn’t jacking up the car, or taking the wheel off, or finding the puncture. There’s something more fundamental than any of those. Something without which you can’t even begin to fix a puncture. The most important step is finding out you’ve got a puncture. Without that you can’t do anything. Instead of saying, “It’s just a bit bumpy, must be the road,” and carrying on, you must acknowledge that something has changed and you don’t know what that is. If you don’t admit you don’t know what’s happening, you can never find out. If you don’t find out, you can never change it. The most important step, always, is admitting you don’t know. That’s the power of ignorance. In this latest collection of real-life stories, Dave Trott provides lessons about problem solving and creative thinking that can be applied in advertising, business, and the wider world. With his trademark wit, wisdom and critical eye, he shows how great problem solvers and creative thinkers are those who are not afraid to say “I don’t know.”

The Book of General Ignorance
The Book of General Ignorance

Author: John Mitchinson

Publisher: Crown Archetype

Published: 2007-08-07

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0307405516

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts finally get the heave-ho in this humorous, downright humiliating book of reeducation based on the phenomenal British bestseller. Challenging what most of us assume to be verifiable truths in areas like history, literature, science, nature, and more,The Book of General Ignorance is a witty “gotcha” compendium of how little we actually know about anything. It’ll have you scratching your head wondering why we even bother to go to school. Think Magellan was the first man to circumnavigate the globe, baseball was invented in America, Henry VIII had six wives, Mount Everest is the tallest mountain? Wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong again. You’ll be surprised at how much you don’t know! Check out The Book of General Ignorance for more fun entries and complete answers to the following: How long can a chicken live without its head? About two years. What do chameleons do? They don’t change color to match the background. Never have; never will. Complete myth. Utter fabrication. Total Lie. They change color as a result of different emotional states. How many legs does a centipede have? Not a hundred. How many toes has a two-toed sloth? It’s either six or eight. Who was the first American president? Peyton Randolph. What were George Washington’s false teeth made from? Mostly hippopotamus. What was James Bond’s favorite drink? Not the vodka martini.

Profiles in Ignorance
Profiles in Ignorance

Author: Andy Borowitz

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2022-09-13

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1668003902

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER *WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER * Andy Borowitz, “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly “chronicles our embrace of anti-intellectualism” (Walter Isaacson) in American politics, from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle, from George W. Bush to Sarah Palin, to its apotheosis in Donald J. Trump. Andy Borowitz has been called a “Swiftian satirist” (The Wall Street Journal) and “one of the country’s finest satirists” (The New York Times). Millions of fans and New Yorker readers enjoy his satirical news column “The Borowitz Report.” Now, in Profiles in Ignorance, he delivers “a wittily alarming polemic that tracks the evolution of American politics from grounds for gravitas to festival of idiocy” (The New York Times). Borowitz argues that over the past fifty years, American politicians have grown increasingly allergic to knowledge, and mass media have encouraged the election of ignoramuses by elevating candidates who are better at performing than thinking. Starting with Ronald Reagan’s first campaign for governor of California in 1966 and culminating with the election of Donald J. Trump to the White House, Borowitz shows how, during the age of twenty-four-hour news and social media, the US has elected politicians to positions of great power whose lack of the most basic information is terrifying. In addition to Reagan, Quayle, Bush, Palin, and Trump, Borowitz covers a host of congresspersons, senators, and governors who have helped lower the bar over the past five decades. Profiles in Ignorance aims to make us both laugh and cry: laugh at the idiotic antics of these public figures, and cry at the cataclysms these icons of ignorance have caused. But most importantly, the book delivers a call to action and a cause for optimism: History doesn’t move in a straight line, and we can change course if we act now.

The End of Ignorance
The End of Ignorance

Author: John Mighton

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0307373444

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A revolutionary call for a new understanding of how people learn. The End of Ignorance conceives of a world in which no child is left behind—a world based on the assumption that each child has the potential to be successful in every subject. John Mighton argues that by recognizing the barriers that we have experienced in our own educational development, by identifying the moment that we became disenchanted with a certain subject and forever closed ourselves off to it, we will be able to eliminate these same barriers from standing in the way of our children. A passionate examination of our present education system, The End of Ignorance shows how we all can work together to reinvent the way that we are taught.

The Second Book of General Ignorance
The Second Book of General Ignorance

Author: John Lloyd

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2011-10-11

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0307951766

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From the brains behind the New York Times' bestseller, The Book of General Ignorance comes another wonderful collection of the most outrageous, fascinating, and mind-bending facts, taking on the hugely popular form of the first book in the internationally bestselling series. Just when you thought that it was safe to start showing off again, John Lloyd and John Mitchinson are back with another busload of mistakes and misunderstandings. Here is a new collection of simple, perfectly obvious questions you'll be quite certain you know the answers to. Whether it's history, science, sports, geography, literature, language, medicine, the classics, or common wisdom, you'll be astonished to discover that everything you thought you knew is still hopelessly wrong. For example, do you know who made the first airplane flight? How many legs does an octopus have? How much water should you drink every day? What is the chance of tossing a coin and it landing on heads? What happens if you leave a tooth in a glass of Coke overnight? What is house dust mostly made from? What was the first dishwasher built to do? What color are oranges? Who in the world is most likely to kill you? Whatever your answers to the questions above, you can be sure that everything you think you know is wrong. The Second Book of General Ignorance is the essential text for everyone who knows they don't know everything, and an ideal stick with which to beat people who think they do.

The Epistemic Dimensions of Ignorance
The Epistemic Dimensions of Ignorance

Author: Rik Peels

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-12-22

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1107175607

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The book provides a thorough exploration of the epistemic dimensions of ignorance: what is ignorance and what are its varieties?