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CONCEPT OF KNOWLEDGE

Islamic epistemology encompasses various degrees of knowledge, starting from 'Ilm Al-Yakin' or knowledge by inference, moving through 'Ayn al-Yakin' or knowledge by perception, to '

CONCEPT OF KNOWLEDGE

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CONCEPT OF KNOWLEDGE IN ISLAM

ADAB

Refers to:
recognition

to know back, to know again

MA'DABA
Banquet

Quran is ma'daba of God-madaba

ADABA
God educated me-adaba
invited, invite to a plentiful & marvelous thing.
Right Action
when you at with knowledge of proper places of things

PURPOSE OF KNOWLEDGE

Divinely
Worldly
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put your mind to work

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DEFINITION

TECHNICALLY
A firm belief that accords with the reality of things (47: 19)

Firm belief without truth(not accord to the truth) is ignorance, jahil, blindly follow lead to arrogance

Firm belief must brought with truth, the reality of things.

Realization of something in its true nature.
The arrival of the ma'na (meaning) of an object in the soul and its arrival at the meaning - Al Attas
Realization of the meaning of things - Al-Ghazali
Derived from 'Alamah'
alam also signifies "a way mark for guidance"
‘signof the way’ or ‘that by which one guides oneself or by which oneself is guided
a mark, sign, or token, by which a thing or person is known; a cognizance, or a badge, a characteristic,and indication, a symptom
ARABIC 'ILM' MEANS
TAFAKKUR

Thought

TADHAKKUR

Remembrance

BASIRAN

Mental perception

TADABBUR

Observation

AL-FIQH

Understanding

AL-MARIFAH

Knowing by experiment

HIKMAH

knowledge is opposite to darkness
knowledge is light to see things in proper places.
knowledge about proper places of things
knowledge in order to judgement

JUSTICE

opposite of adil = zulm/darkness/oppression/injustice
If you get good hakim the judgement will be good
people get what they deserve
Put something in a right place, proper place

OPPOSITE OF YAKIN

Conjecture zann
baseless speculation

nazar, which means extension of subjectives desire(hawa), and could develop into a contentious activity( mira)together with: negligence, forgetfulness, sleep and death

Doubt/Shakk
certainty cannot be remove by shak or doubt
is not a knowledge
two opposite, cannot decide
Jahil
Ignorance

DEGREES OF KNOWLEDGE

Haqq al-Yakin
Knowledge by Inner experience

The highest Level of Certainty

Ayn al-Yakin
Knowledge by perception and observation

see with your own eyes

Ilm Al-Yakin
Knowledge by inference

when someone inform you