{"id":166,"date":"2007-05-12T22:44:04","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T22:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/12\/we-listen-but-will-we-ever-understand\/"},"modified":"2007-05-12T22:52:54","modified_gmt":"2007-05-12T22:52:54","slug":"we-listen-but-will-we-ever-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/12\/we-listen-but-will-we-ever-understand\/","title":{"rendered":"We listen but will we ever understand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em><strong>The ink of the scholars is worth more than the blood of the martyrs<\/strong><\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">The Prophet Mohammed (PBUH)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if the prophet would have imagined a time when Islamic scholars would, themselves, put an end to scholarly exploration, investigation, innovation, or even criticism? Have elements both within the Islamic faith and outside of it succeeded, so completely, in polarising opinions and distorting our faith  to the extent where we no longer recognise who we are or what we are becoming  &#8230; as we, all of us muslim and non muslim, are forced to march inexorably to our doom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The ink of the scholars is worth more than the blood of the martyrs&#8221; The Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) I wonder if the prophet would have imagined a time when Islamic scholars would, themselves, put an end to scholarly exploration, investigation, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/12\/we-listen-but-will-we-ever-understand\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,26,4],"tags":[382,406,384],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-philosophy","category-religion","tag-personal","tag-philosophy","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}