Axe of Ibrahim
“When Ibrahim said to his father and his people: What are these statues to which you are devoted?” — Qur’an 21:52
Purpose
This wiki centralizes detailed responses to objections raised against Islam, the Qur’an, the Sunnah, and Islamic civilization. Cleaning external polemics made by orientalists, liberals, feminists, atheists, apostates(Ex-muslims), Quranists, modernists, and “secular” intellectuals — not reconciling usuli ikhtilaf.
This is a central axis of the OpenTajdīd system. It is not a single project — it is a method, a mindset, a spiritual blade that cuts through false knowledge systems and orients the soul back to the Haqq.
The Axe of Ibrahim is not merely symbolic — it is a methodology of cleansing the cognitive idols inherited from colonization, liberalism, secular modernity, and inherited frameworks that are disconnected from Revelation.
It is:
- 🔍 A diagnostic tool to uncover the hidden “idols” in thought.
- 🔨 A method of deconstruction grounded in Tawḥīd.
- 🌱 A means of tajdīd (revival), not reform — meaning it doesn’t aim to “modernize Islam”, but to revive the Islamic soul by destroying the distortions imposed upon it.
Why Axe of Ibrahim is Necessary
Modern Muslims suffer from:
- Imported philosophies disguised as “universal values”
- Abandonment of maʿrifah and ontological grounding
- Cognitive dualism: religion vs science, faith vs reason
The Axe of Ibrahim reorients cognition so that:
- Tawḥīd becomes the lens — not the object
- Revelation becomes the starting point — not an add-on
- You rebuild your worldview from submission, not synthesis
You are not writing notes. You are destroying idols.
What Makes This Different?
- ❌ We do not “integrate” Islam with secular thought — we discard the idols.
- ✅ We do not reconcile modernity with Revelation — we measure modernity against Revelation.
- 🧭 We are not “adding an Islamic angle” — we are returning to the only true angle: Allah is the center.
Let the Axe of Ibrahim always be near your heart. Every note is a stroke. Every refutation, a chip at the idol. Every insight, a light from your Lord.
Tajdīd As a Spiritual System
| Component | Tawḥīdic Reality |
|---|---|
| Tajdīd | Active renewal of perception, intention, and action through divine knowledge (ʿilm) |
| Personal | You — the nafs, the qalb, the locus of consciousness, intention, and ultimate submission |
| System | Not a “framework” but a spiritual epistemology — a workflow of tazkiyah, maʿrifah, and furqān |
OpenTajdīd is not a content archive — it is a method of witnessing the truth.
The Axe of Ibrāhīm is not just for refutation, but for inner reorientation and epistemic cleansing.
Disciplinization Is a Colonial Epistemology
The crisis is not in lack of content — but in how we think.
Colonial modernity did not just reshape economies — it fractured the unity of knowledge by imposing synthetic disciplines divorced from Revelation. Its secular architecture severed meanings from Allah ﷻ, resulting in:
| Secular Discipline | Tawḥīdic Re-rooting |
|---|---|
| Psychology | ʿIlm al-Nafs (soul, heart, fitrah) |
| Economics | ʿIlm al-Māl (value, maqāṣid, barakah) |
| Political Science | Siyāsah Sharʿiyyah (khilāfah, amanah) |
| Architecture | ʿIlm al-ʿImārah (cosmic-spatial order) |
❌ We do not “Islamize” foreign categories.
✅ We begin from Revelation as the metaphysical root, and build outward via tawḥīdic first principles.
How the System Works
| Layer | Western PKM | Tawḥīdic Reframing | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input | Capture / Fleeting | Fitri impulse / Revelation | Reception |
| Engagement | Processing / Linking | Tafakkur, Tadabbur | Reflection |
| Structuring | MOC / Map | Miḥwar (Axis) | Integration |
| Output | Evergreen Note | Tathbīt (established ḥikmah) | Manifestation |
| Archiving | Cold storage | Dormant truths, returned via need | Evaluation |
| Re-Linking | Ghost backlinks | Āyāt (emergent signs across notes) | Emergence |
Core Taxonomy: Axes vs MOCs vs Catalogues
| Type | Folder | Tag | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Axis | Understanding/ | #axis | Qur’anic ontological root — metaphysical principle for structuring thought |
| MOC | Understanding/ | #moc | Map of external epistemic ideas or discourses — secular, Eastern, etc. |
| Catalogue | Catalogues/ | #catalogue | Thematic walkthroughs, portals or sequenced insights — entry-points, indexes |
| Comparison Table | Axis (🧭 Miḥwar) | MOC (🗺️ Map of Content) |
|---|---|---|
| Ontology | Rooted in Qur’anic metaphysics | Constructed from external systems |
| Epistemology | Maqāṣidic, ontological, divine | Comparative, descriptive, secular |
| Function | Reorients, anchors, cuts through | Organizes, indexes, contrasts |
| Examples | Rahmah, Wahy, Qadar, Maʿād | Western Psychology, Feminist Theory, Atheism |
Taxonomy: Folders + Tags + Purpose + Examples
| Folder | Tag(s) | Purpose | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
Defining/ | #definition, #movement, #event | All ontological nouns — concepts, ideologies, flashpoints, events (Islamic & non-Islamic) | Tawḥīd, Free Will, Muʿtazilah, Hijrah, Causality, Karma, Fitrah |
Understanding/ | #axis | Core Tawḥīdic metaphysical anchors from Revelation that organize perception, epistemic anchors | Rahmah, Wahy, Qadar, Maʿād, Barakah, Tawbah |
Understanding/ | #moc | Maps of external conceptual systems — Western, Eastern, secular, philosophical, comparative domains, or syncretic philosophies | Western Psychology, Feminist Ethics, Marxism, Postmodernism, Vedantic Emptiness, Critical Race Theory, Postmodernism, Vedic Cosmology |
Insights/ | #insight + functional sub-tags | Core working notes — includes refutations, comparisons, polemics, critiques, recastings, commentaries, FAQs, analysis | Karma vs Qadar, Islam and Human Dignity, Misreading 4:34, Animal Ethics in Islam,Pornography and Necessity |
Sources/ | #source | Source materials — surah, hadith, persons, scholars(#person), books, articles, lectures, videos, courses, scholarly text, papers, etc. | Qur’an 2:286, Muslim 1:1, Ghazālī’s Iḥyāʾ, Karen Armstrong, Fazlur Rahman, Soroush |
Catalogues/ | #catalogue | Thematic or guided navigational clusters for user entry across notes | All Prophet’s Marriages, Doubts on Prophethood, Liberalism Refuted, Refuting Feminism Qur’anic Epistemics |
Insight Subtypes (Tag-Driven)
All go inside
Insights/but differentiated by combinatory tags:
| Subtype | Tags | Example Titles |
|---|---|---|
| Refutation | #insight, #refutation | Why God Cannot Be a Trinity, Feminism vs Islam, Against Reincarnation |
| Comparison | #insight, #comparison | Karma vs Qadar, Rahmah vs Christian Love, Tawḥīd vs Nirguna Brahman |
| Philosophical Critique | #insight, #pathology | Liberalism and the Crisis of Dignity, Time Crisis in Capitalism |
| Polemic Engagement | #insight, #polemics | Orientalist Framing of Slavery, Islam and Women Misunderstood, Accusation of Quranic Violence |
| Clarification / FAQ | #insight, #faq | What is Jihād?, Why Did the Prophet Marry Aisha? |
| Commentary / Essay | #insight | Islamic Animal Ethics, Purpose of Language, Science and Tawḥīd, Islamic Language Philosophy |
YAML Status Fields
Use these in the YAML frontmatter of any note, across all folders:
obsidian-note-status:
- colorful:raw # Captured, unprocessed
- colorful:processed # Some tafakkur and linking done
- colorful:recast # Reframed with Tawḥīdic ontology
- colorful:integrated # Linked to axis or catalogue
- colorful:fitnah # Contains embedded error; epistemically corrupt
- colorful:archived # Unusable; logged and deprecated
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OpenTajdīd is for those who want to:
- Tear down the idols of thought
- Reconstruct their worldview with Allah at the center
- Heal from doubt, distortion, and degradation
- Discover that all of creation is āyah — a sign — not a category