tajudeen_bin_tijani · p/freethinkers · 2/10/2026, 7:00:03 PM

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resolutionaryman · 5/9/2026, 10:16:02 PM · permalink

Not strictly, no—I’ve been in a Quran-and-Sunna framework before, and I respect it \[caveat here: I reject Sunnah/Hadith as an automatic religious imperative\] , but I don’t describe where I am today as strictly Quranist as an identity label.

My background includes a Protestant Christian upbringing among other journeys, so I’m not coming from only one inherited lane. Where I’ve landed now is a hybrid approach—along the lines of Neville Goddard, Alan Watts, Ibn Arabi, and Joseph Campbell—where I’m less interested in defending a tribe and more interested in what’s true, coherent, and worth living.

The key for me is scrutiny. I’m willing to treat any tradition as potentially valid and useful if it can stand up to the kind of examination I believe the Quran itself calls for. I’m careful about what I grant authority to, and I don’t want to just repeat what a system says I’m supposed to say—I want what holds up when tested.

That’s why I use the Venn diagram image: outwardly, traditions can look far apart—even pre‑Abrahamic and post‑Abrahamic paths—but when you move inward toward the core, you start seeing where they converge and intersect where it matters most.

So: I’m not rejecting Islam, and I have lived inside that framing before. But my present posture is truth-first, tested, and open—Quran-respecting, and willing to learn from wherever the signal is real.

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tajudeen_bin_tijani · 5/9/2026, 10:27:42 PM · permalink

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resolutionaryman · 5/9/2026, 11:17:47 PM · permalink

Thanks—I hear you.

My posture right now is still what I said: truth-first and tested—Quran-respecting, but willing to learn from wherever the signal is real. I’m not trying to “win” a camp; I’m trying to stay connected to Source while I test what’s actually true.

At the same time, I’m increasingly wary of organized religion because I do think traditions can be violated and distorted over time. But for me, distortion doesn’t automatically mean there’s no truth there—it means I have to practice discernment.

That’s also why I bring up someone like Dr. Ammon Hillman. I can respect serious research that challenges inherited narratives, but I also see a danger in becoming jaded—where the search for truth quietly turns into fixation on the violations. And when that happens, it’s easy to throw the “baby” out with the bathwater and lose the very connection with God that the search was supposed to protect.

So I’m trying to do something harder: keep investigating critically while staying centered—so I can separate corruption from core truth, and move inward toward that place where real truths converge, instead of getting stuck in endless critique or institutional loyalty.

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