الماجريات

Description / الوصف

Tracking the daily influx of news and the ensuing public debate, following the successive series of intellectual extremisms, jurisprudential deviations, and intellectual commentaries proliferating on social media, and being drawn into pursuing intellectual trivialities and minor issues while continuously gazing in anticipation of their mutual bickering and vexations—unconsciously revolving in such a vortex, especially via the ever-present smartphones—gradually leads a person to disconnect from the spirit of action, implementation, and productivity. It fosters a feeling that merely watching and commenting is the natural state for a student of knowledge or a reformer. Addressing this issue is complex. We need scholarly, intellectual, and advocacy figures who have a detailed, documented stance on the problem of excessive immersion in following events—a stance that can be considered an "intellectual model." Simultaneously, we lack direct experience of part of these figures' journeys to draw upon in sustaining the motivation that is often weakened by deep involvement in fleeting affairs (al-mājiriyyāt). In this book, we will attempt to outline the governing boundaries of this study. Then, we will jointly examine the status of al-mājiriyyāt (fleeting, trivial matters) in the perspective of Muslim scholars. Subsequently, we will move to discussing networked al-mājiriyyāt (i.e., on networks/social media), modern studies concerning them, and their relationship with the student of knowledge. As for political al-mājiriyyāt, we will try to understand them by studying models of serious, productive scholarly and intellectual figures who had a position on this problematic issue.