My Philosophy

For me, philosophy is not a history of ideas, nor a collection of names and schools whose statements we repeat.

It is an attempt to understand the human being, existence, and knowledge through questioning.

What is the human being?

Why are we here?

How do we know what we know?

What are the limits of reason?

Can the human being reach truth, or see only as much of it as their tools permit?

And what makes an action right or wrong, just or unjust?

At Tadbur, I approach philosophy as an open space for questioning, not a factory for ready-made answers.

For me, the Qur'an is not a book invoked to confirm a pre-existing philosophy, but a text to be read from within, whose concepts, connections, and questions are examined, and from whose text and context hypotheses are then constructed.

I therefore do not seek an answer because some book contains an answer given before our time, nor do I reject an idea merely because it contradicts what we are accustomed to.

The question comes first.

Evidence comes second.

Then comes the hypothesis.

Reason is an essential tool in inquiry, but it is not immune to illusion, just as what we have inherited is not immune to error.

This is why I try to read ideas from within, and always to ask:

What is the evidence?

What does the text actually say?

And what have we added to it?

At Tadbur, philosophy is not a search for swift certainty, but training in inquiry, in asking anew, and in breaking the boundaries created by ready-made answers.

Here the journey begins:

From the question of existence, to the question of knowledge, to the question of ethics, and then to the greater question: where do the limits of the human being lie before truth?