Episode 27 - A Realist's Manifesto | Dr. Mohamed Ghilan

Dr. Ghilan returns back home to the Cave! We delve into veganism, what is true reality, how rationality and science alone cannot lead to real Truth, why Allah created Hell-fire, and the state of the Muslim world in today's day and age.

Dr. Ghilan is a neuroscientist, Islamic lecturer, YouTuber, podcaster, writer and is currently studying Medicine at The University of Queensland.

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Dr. Mohamed Ghilan is a Canadian Muslim originally born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to parents from Sudanese and Yemeni backgrounds. He attended high school after immigrating to Canada in Vancouver, British Columbia. Eventually, Mohamed moved to Victoria where he obtained a B.Sc. with a major in microbiology (honours) and a minor in business administration.

In 2007, Mohamed began his full-time studies in the Islamic Tradition after having made connections with several Muslim scholars. He has been consistently travelling over the past years to spend intensive extended periods studying various aspects of the Islamic sciences relating to Theology and Creed, Jurisprudence, Hadith, Foundational Principles (Usool), Arabic, Poetry, spiritual purification, and Qur'anic sciences.

Mohamed has previously given lectures on the biography of the Prophet Muhammed peace be upon him, Fundamentalism in Islam, Islam and science, the message of Islam, Jesus in the Qur'an, in addition to others. He has also taught an introductory course on Islamic Jurisprudence according to the Maliki School as well as an introductory course on Islamic Theology ('Aqeedah).

In 2015, Mohamed earned a PhD in neuroscience at the University of Victoria, where he studied synaptic plasticity in Huntington's disease, as well as the effects and molecular mechanisms of stress on the brain in Fragile X syndrome. He hopes his research can eventually be used to develop new therapies can be used to assist individual with movement disorders or intellectual disabilities.

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[11:00] Introducing Dr Mohamed Ghilan

[12:30] Dr Ghilan's time after touching down in Sydney

[14:00] Some Sahaba didn't slaughter meat on Eid-ul-Adha

[14:47] Dr Mohamed Ghilan's article on Veganism

[15:00] Separation of the legal from the ethical when it comes to slaughtering meat in Islam.

[16:30] Taking on the attributes of what we eat

[18:00] The Prophet PBUH's relationship with animals and meat

[21:30] As a Muslim how do you respond to an Atheist who says there is no hidden meaning to anything in regards to events that play out in life?

[26:00] Nature of quality and quantity

[29:00] Nature of knowledge being bound by time, space and science being only an instrumentalising tool.

[31:00] Truth based on experiential knowledge.

[36:00] Religious people are the worst salespeople

[36:30] Mind is powerful that it can rationalise something that we already don't believe in.

[37:23] Essence of rationality, rationality can be welded to different ends, can rationality be purely be used to find Truth?

[40:00] Why is there so much hype of science in the modern world and the nature of technology.

[48:40] Why did Allah create the universe when he already knew only a few people would be Believers and go Jannah whereas the rest will be going to Jahannam? Doesn't that mean he is unjust?

[56:00] How should Muslims engage with the society, civic, political system?

[1:06:00] Muslims need to be more creative in regards to how they approach the world.