"In this culture of cognitive confusion, resulting from the fragmentation of sincere intention from true vision (tafrīq bayn niyya khāliṣa wa ruʾya ṣādiqa), farḍ al-kifāya becomes but a feel-good slogan, a vacuous verbal justification bandied around to justify pursuing any academic or vocational discipline or business enterprise whatsoever. One sees many smart Muslim young men and women getting trained in, say, neoliberal, capitalistic economics and finance, thinking this to be farḍ al-kifāya, while at the same time totally oblivious of even the basic ethico-juristic precepts of classical muʿāmala—already well-outlined by al-Ghazālī almost a thousand years ago—the creative grasp of which could have provided for them the conceptual tools necessary for a truly intellectual and critical engagement with their chosen fields of study (be they related to economics or other areas), and with their future career paths in the service of the Umma, if they really care about serving the Umma through their local communities." -- Associate Prof. Dr. ʿAdī Setia, CASIS
http://www.cis-ca.org/jol/JIS-11-1/JIS-11-1-End-matters.pdf
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