NASIR NARRATES

Disclaimer:   As a novice reader of the Qur’an, I try to understand it and seek guidance from it. The following piece does not claim to offer any definitive conclusions. Whatever resonates with the truth is from God alone, and any error is due to my own limited understanding. Nonetheless, I urge you to read the Qur’an and pray for my guidance. The Uncertain Plot: In the early months of last year, I came across Essays in Skepticism by Bertrand Russell. It did not give me a concrete understanding of why we should be skeptical about anything. Moreover, its contradictions seemed more apparent than its critical nuances. I then turned to Byung-Chul Han, a contemporary philosopher who questions every aspect of modern life and rethinking, yet again leaving the reader suspended in uncertainty. Countless discussions and varied readings from different philosophies and philosophers, most of them Western, have yielded nothing but an intensified sense of existential doubt. MIT conducted a stud...