The Cosmological Journey of Neo: An Islamic Matrix - Walayah

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Being Lost And Finding The Way

Dr. Idris Hamid explains the concept of Walayah and definition of Islam, to shows his understanding of Islam.

Discussing Spiritual Walayah in Islam, Station and Process

In this second review, we discover why Islam includes a fundamental activity called walayah in Islam, Station and Process, the second installment in the Islam-Dynamic Project, written by Idris Samawi Hamid.

Islam, Sign and Creation: A Review of The Foundational Book of Islam

A young woman raised in the Christian faith discovers a spirituality that she connects with in Islam, Sign and Creation written by Idris Samawi Hamid.

The Cosmological Journey of Neo: An Islamic Matrix

The Matrix trilogy provides an interesting smorgasbord of philosophical questions and issues. Yet underlying the metaphysical questions (What is real? ; What is the nature of reality?), the epistemological questions (How do I know what is real?), and the ethical questions (what am I really supposed to do?) there lies the larger context of the cosmology of the Matrix. That is, the most important philosophical questions addressed in the Matrix are fundamentally cosmological questions.

Cosmology seeks the mutual and consistent integration of the answers to particular philosophical and scientific questions with a view to providing a model that, as comprehensively as possible, explains

1. the origin of the world and humanity
2. the purpose of the world and humanity
3. the destiny of the world and humanity

Plato’s Timaeus is the classical archetype of philosophical cosmology in the West. Whitehead’s Process and Reality is perhaps the last comprehensive work in this field in the West.1 Today, in the wake of the present separation of philosophy and physics (formerly natural philosophy), cosmology has by and large been left to the astrophysicists, and its domain restricted to the physical universe.

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