The light of the day · Thursday 22 October
The scientific method has a father from Basra
Ibn al-Haytham's Book of Optics (c. 1021) proved vision happens when light enters the eye, built the first camera obscura experiments, and insisted every claim be tested by repeatable experiment, centuries before Europe's scientific revolution.
Ibn al-Haytham · c. 965-1040 CE
Thursday 22 October 2026 · 10 Jumada al-Ula 1448 AH
The word · Law and life
اِسْتِصْحاب
Istishab
Presumption of continuity: what was established stays in force until there is proof it changed.
It is why you are still in wudu when you merely doubt whether you broke it, why a missing person is presumed alive until evidence says otherwise, and why an accused person is treated as innocent until guilt is proved. It works hand in hand with the maxim that certainty is not lifted by doubt. Shafi'is and Hanbalis use it broadly, while Hanafis accept it to defend an existing state but not to establish a new right.
The Path · chapter 56 of 71
نزول عيسى
Descent of Isa: Ruhullah
At the white minaret of Damascus. He will kill the Dajjal at Ludd.
History's greatest dispute, who Isa is, is settled by Isa, in person, in Islam's favor
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