 The topic is of central importance today for the fate of the Ummah. And in 10 minutes it's not possible to cover, but it will not be possible to cover in 10 years also, so might as well make a stab at it. Let's see now, there are so many things that I would like to say, but let's say that you see Islam launched a knowledge revolution. How did it happen that 14 centuries ago ignorant and backwards Bedouin became thought leaders of the world. This is because Islam is unique in encouraging knowledge and there is so much on pursuit of knowledge that it's impossible to summarize and everybody knows it so I won't go through those materials. But basically, if you look at the dialogue of Ibrahim with his nation that why do you believe these things well because our parents believe that what if they were even even if they were stupid they were irrational. So, encouraging us to question tradition. This is really a radically different approach from every religion that instead of saying that okay you have to believe because this is what everybody else is doing. It says no question what everybody else does and in fact you can trace this that this idea that enlightenment Quran was was actually any one of the things that is hidden from us because of Eurocentric history is that the light of the Quran is actually what ended the dark ages of Europe. And there was a century where Arabic was taught in Europe and and Arabic and all of the leading scholars learned Arabic, and that was the intellectual language, until they completed their translations. Anyway, so the problem. So, I was just that's just something the background, the point is that how did this civilization. Now today we are again in Jahlia and the prophecy of the Quran of the hadith that Islam came as a stranger and will become a stranger has come true. And today, we are crawling into lizard holds after Christians and Jews, exactly as prophecy. And this crawling into should be interpreted in the sense of knowledge that today in 99% of the vast majority of the Islamic world, the respect for Western knowledge is far greater than that of the Quran in my own discipline of economics. So we can show example after example of Islamic economists who came up with the conflict in the Quran and in the Samuelson, and then they preferred the Samuelson and reinterpret the Quran to make it conform. And so basically, I have also written on many occasions recently that all of social science is an illusion, it is, it should be called it's not to call social science, it should be called European social science or Western social science. It's not a science, there's a double mistake that the idea, first of all, there's a deep misunderstanding of scientific methodology. And then the second mistake is to use this wrong methodology of science and then apply it to the study of humanities which it cannot be done. So, definitely, there is an alternative and this is not just ideas I have been working on this for more than 10 years. And Alhamdulillah Allah has guided me to show that in economics, we can just throw away all of the current texts and rebuild on new foundations. And similarly, I'm currently working on econometrics and statistics, and even these apparently objective and solid looking sciences are built on false methodology and therefore they lead to wrong results routinely. And so that's why this idea that you know that the most widely sold book in the statistics area is called How to Lie with Statistics. That is the title of the most widely sold book and this is exactly the truth. Statistics is just a bunch of lies, but at the same time, it has so much respect that, and of course it doesn't matter if it has respect in Europe, but the problem is that the Muslims respect it. The point is that we have to show how this works. It's not enough because Muslims start believing in science, so we have to break the, we have to break the idol of Western knowledge. And we have to show that this book is false. This is a fake, this is an illusion of knowledge and not real knowledge. But now, when we come to knowledge, then it's clear that knowledge is power and vice versa. It is in the interest of the hegemonic interest of the West, not to have this challenged. And so also for us, I have analyzed this problem very carefully of how we can introduce a new paradigm for knowledge and basically, you know, Max Planck, he was introduced quantum mechanics and he said that science progresses one funeral at a time because people refuse to accept his quantum mechanic theory. And basically it's only when the people who adhere to the older things die out that the younger generation comes up. So basically one thing that I have conclusion that I've reached, looking at the fate of heterodox economics, so many people came up with so many brilliant ideas within a secular modern paradigm, which counters neoclassical and not one of them made any headway. I mean, it's almost obvious that the, the wealth in a society is distributed according to the class and according to the power. But the economics textbooks, and this is what Marx said, but the economics don't even mention this idea, they just ridicule it. And when I was a graduate student, I learned to ridicule it and not study it much, much later I realized that Marx is talking simple truth. And now the all over the USA they were two or three heterodox schools and even those have been marginalized and disbanded. And basically, when it comes to power we cannot succeed in converting the West and we should not try. It's just a waste of effort we should not try to publish our articles in the top two journals, we should not try to even speak to the West in the sense of trying to do that. What we need to do is to introduce these uloom to the Muslim Ummah, to only basically Muslims. And there's another reason for that which I think Abdullah mentioned, that you see in the in the West when they go through the training, they have only this one paradigm and when you say that this paradigm is all wrong, this completely disrupts their picture of the world they just they have no place to stand on. And so they find this very disorienting and they will resist to the maximum any effort to disrupt this paradigm as opposed to this. The student is built, is educated in two conflicting and contradictory paradigms he holds this paradigm which says that the heart is the most important source of knowledge. And there is a piece of flesh in your body which, if it is right then everything is right. Jalla ala kumussama wal absara wal affida we have created for you the heart and the. Jalla ala kumussama wal absara wal affida all three are sources of knowledge. Our hearts can recognize God and they can recognize truth. But this cannot be that Eman doesn't enter the brains it enters the heart. But in the West they deny the validity of heart and they say oh this is just emotion. So the Muslim is aware of this conflict in this epistemology and we if we say that we reject the Western epistemology he has a place to stand or he can reflect on this possibility, because he has another platform on which he can stand and ponder that yes, maybe this might be true, but the Western intellectual does not have an alternative. So, basically, I'm talking about strategy. How can we work because the job that I am engaged in that Recep is engaged in is massive what I'm saying that we need to rewrite social sciences from scratch. And so basically, let me end by saying that the current paradigm all over the Islamic world by sincere and this is actually the dominant paradigm, I would say 90% of the people say that we just shunt Islamic teachings to the side. The real thing that knowledge at this time is the three centuries of knowledge that West acquired, and that is that is the main thing. So then the remaining 99% recognize that this is problematic and they say that the real project for the time is Islamization of knowledge. We take this Western knowledge and we Islamize it. And I say that both of these approaches are wrong. And what we need is what I call the Ghazali project. So the Ghazali project starts with the, I can you can split it into three parts, So first, getting rid of the darkness and understanding that the faith that we have is the most important treasure, and that the knowledge that we have been given by God is far superior to anything that anyone else can gather. Today, most Muslims don't believe this. They think that Einstein is the wisest man on the planet and so on. So because we have been indoctrinated into these beliefs that the Western knowledge that science and technology and Islam as exactly as that science and technology is the only hope for the future and the problem for the Muslims is that they need to learn science. Okay, so and since science itself creates a lot of wrong assumptions and conflicts with Islam. So what we need to do is modify science. So I say no, first we strengthen our faith that our knowledge is the most important. The second part is the half of the philosophy. So we reject the bases of Western science we reject social science because it's just all wrong it's basically Eurocentric prejudice, and it has there is nothing no solid substance. So we reject physical science in the sense that, although science and technology is important the near the intention with which the science was created was to impose power on others. And Islam teaches us that power is the for the purpose of helping the oppressed. So once we study science from the with a different near then a different kind of science will emerge. So this current battle over patents for vaccines. This is all because of the wrong idea about the science is meant for wealth and power and profits. And so this is this is why we are getting the wrong kinds of results from it. So we reject all of the and we have so we have to rebuild all of these things from scratch. When we study biology, we should be studying the eye at Allah how amazing the creation of God in in terms of our biological. So the third part so so instead of Islamization of knowledge we reject Western knowledge and we say that we need to rebuild this whole thing from scratch. The third part is I hear a little bit. So this is exactly where Rajab's work is I am actually engaged in the hospital philosophy. I am working very hard to show that what in my own discipline, what the conventional, the Orthodox is saying is completely wrong. Another separate project, which is a little bit to show that our Dean offers a perfectly satisfactory comfortable basis and our intellectual tradition to rebuild the social sciences on on traditional Islamic grounds. And so the audience for this is our own students in Islamic tradition. The target of our efforts should be to recreate education, the in Islamic world, and to rebuild it with a spiritual content with the basis this is something which has been washed out of US education, university education in the West. In the early 20th century, they used to concentrate on character building so they had some element of religion and spirituality, but for reasons which are complex and I have covered elsewhere. This got washed out so now the whole world is spiritually stunted and that is the main problem that we face we are we have our education creates moral midgets. So we have to counter this by creating an educational process in the East, which builds spirituality and also provides worldly knowledge. Okay, so I think I'll stop here. Thank you very much.