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sawaaiiq's review
4.0
"Objectively, things are neither beautiful nor ugly. There is no natural beauty. Only when they are perceived by our soul do they become beautiful or ugly, harmonious or disfigured... The soul recognises itself in the composition or discovers in it something that has always been present in itself."
This book shows that Izetbegović was clearly a very wide reader, writing a range of opinions on philosophers, psychologists, and other religions he learnt about. I'm not sure how a lot of it relates to Islam tbh.
I did enjoy the digs he made at Freud and also Darwin:
"If there were an anti-Christ, it would be Darwin. For him, the law of egoism is the highest law of nature."
He has an almost borderline obsession with art.. in that it, to him, captures the essence of life that science and artificial intelligence can never achieve with facts and advanced machinery. As if science and computers almost seem to him a source of soullessness, to some extent he is right, but I don't believe the essence of life is always visible in mere images and sounds created by men. I think he means to explain that they invoke emotions and feelings that other things cannot.
He also spoke of culture and civilisation, often reiterating that the alphabet is needed to preserve a civilisation and to not lose the culture they hold. I think, even today, as a civilisation, we would do well to improve the literacy rates in our home nations to preserve our ummah into the future.
It was an interesting read, a few things that sounded a bit mad (Islamically), I do wonder how Izetbegović thought some of these things related to Islam...
This book shows that Izetbegović was clearly a very wide reader, writing a range of opinions on philosophers, psychologists, and other religions he learnt about. I'm not sure how a lot of it relates to Islam tbh.
I did enjoy the digs he made at Freud and also Darwin:
"If there were an anti-Christ, it would be Darwin. For him, the law of egoism is the highest law of nature."
He has an almost borderline obsession with art.. in that it, to him, captures the essence of life that science and artificial intelligence can never achieve with facts and advanced machinery. As if science and computers almost seem to him a source of soullessness, to some extent he is right, but I don't believe the essence of life is always visible in mere images and sounds created by men. I think he means to explain that they invoke emotions and feelings that other things cannot.
He also spoke of culture and civilisation, often reiterating that the alphabet is needed to preserve a civilisation and to not lose the culture they hold. I think, even today, as a civilisation, we would do well to improve the literacy rates in our home nations to preserve our ummah into the future.
It was an interesting read, a few things that sounded a bit mad (Islamically), I do wonder how Izetbegović thought some of these things related to Islam...
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