{"id":2954,"date":"2007-02-07T15:26:08","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T15:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/we_need_to_build_more_continuum\/"},"modified":"2011-08-12T05:42:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T21:42:14","slug":"we_need_to_build_more_continuum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/membinalegasi.com\/v1\/we_need_to_build_more_continuum\/","title":{"rendered":"We need to build more continuum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is continuum?\u00a0<a title=\"Continuum (theory)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Continuum_%28theory%29\">Continuum (theory)<\/a>, anything that goes through a gradual transition from one condition, to a different condition, without any abrupt changes or \u201cdiscontinuities\u201d. This is the definition by Wikipedia. Why it is so important? Because it explains how to reach a target in doing anything. In al-Quran, it is fulled with codes that need to be decoded. Decoding process needs a good set of knowledge either theoretically or empirically. The West is good in characterizing any behavior or deed in term of continuum. Should Muslims come up with continuum?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yes. Because the earth was created in stages. This is stated in Surah as-Sajadah. Thus we need to have the mentality of climbing ladder or what we call &#8211; stages. Gradual, stage-by-stage thinking will empower our mind and habit to try and reach any targeted behavior in our life.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, in order to achieve the level of taqwa in fasting, Imam Ghazali has developed so-called fasting continuum. First stage &#8211; <em>awaam<\/em> or general. Second stage &#8211; <em>khusoos<\/em> or special. Third stage &#8211; <em>khawasal khusoos<\/em>\u00a0 or special of special. At this stage, one has the potential to be in taqwa.<\/p>\n<p>Since it is clear to see that continuum by past scholar, why not we come up with other set in the future? Let&#8217;s dig the pearl in Quran and Hadith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is continuum? <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Continuum_%28theory%29\" title=\"Continuum (theory)\">Continuum (theory)<\/a>, anything that goes through a gradual transition from one condition, to a different condition, without any abrupt changes or &ldquo;discontinuities&rdquo;. This is the definition by Wikipedia. Why it is so important? Because it explains how to reach a target in doing anything. In al-Quran, it is fulled with codes that need to be decoded. Decoding process needs a good set of knowledge either theoretically or empirically. The West is good in characterizing any behavior or deed in term of continuum. Should Muslims come up with continuum?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout"},"categories":[120,127],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/membinalegasi.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/membinalegasi.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/membinalegasi.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/membinalegasi.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/membinalegasi.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/membinalegasi.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3966,"href":"https:\/\/membinalegasi.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions\/3966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/membinalegasi.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/membinalegasi.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/membinalegasi.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/membinalegasi.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/membinalegasi.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}