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**Gastonleruanich** · 04-01-2011, 11:30 AM

I guess an argument for the transcendent unity of religion is that we can be transcendently superstitious no matter what your religion.

LOL! I couldn't help but laugh at this haha.

I shall offer my two cents. My one friend calls Transcendental Unity of Religions as 'futile knowledge.' And after having read some books of Schuon- I must admit, there is no Jalal nor Jamal in the Perennialist philosophy. Rather there is something similar to a pathos there, what the Japanese call "mono no aware", for dying religions and traditions. I think thats all it really boils down to. I did a project on languages that are going 'extinct' and I found the same feeling there I felt while reading Schuon.

Gai Eaton and others serve as a gateway into Islam, a type of dawah, but that's about it. Perennial philosophy is to intellectual, philosophy-loving types what Farrakhan and the Elijah Muhammad was to African Americans. It just is a stepping stone.

I don't see the need to indict Schuon for his eccentricities- there are many unusual Muslims out there and in an ummah of 2 billion, its threat is marginal. Maybe in the past when the ummah was smaller, these things would be a scare- but now, I really think you have to stretch and inflate the threat thats really not as big a deal as atheist propaganda nor the distractions that lead us away from ibada.

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04-01-2011, 11:30 AM	#23
Gastonleruanich Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 592 Senior Member	I guess an argument for the transcendent unity of religion is that we can be transcendently superstitious no matter what your religion. LOL! I couldn't help but laugh at this haha. I shall offer my two cents. My one friend calls Transcendental Unity of Religions as 'futile knowledge.' And after having read some books of Schuon- I must admit, there is no Jalal nor Jamal in the Perennialist philosophy. Rather there is something similar to a pathos there, what the Japanese call "mono no aware", for dying religions and traditions. I think thats all it really boils down to. I did a project on languages that are going 'extinct' and I found the same feeling there I felt while reading Schuon. Gai Eaton and others serve as a gateway into Islam, a type of dawah, but that's about it. Perennial philosophy is to intellectual, philosophy-loving types what Farrakhan and the Elijah Muhammad was to African Americans. It just is a stepping stone. I don't see the need to indict Schuon for his eccentricities- there are many unusual Muslims out there and in an ummah of 2 billion, its threat is marginal. Maybe in the past when the ummah was smaller, these things would be a scare- but now, I really think you have to stretch and inflate the threat thats really not as big a deal as atheist propaganda nor the distractions that lead us away from ibada. di.
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