Do you know Sull Kaak yet?

A Sull Kaak isn’t a breakaway obscure figure who resents all that is around. Sull Kaak is more of a psychological state than a physical being. A Sull Kaak is same as every other person in Kashmir, rooted in tradition, rooted in true being, standing on the same metaphysical and epistemic grounds as any average Kashmiri. His senses in service of his inner being. His knowledge deployed according to priorities of human soul, state and society, well trained in the knowledge of the necessary – the fard ayn. The entire edifice of a Sull Kaak’s knowledge is constructed on this knowledge of the necessary. A Sull Kaak possesses thorough knowledge of the prerequisites of all knowledge – logic, grammar, rhetoric. He understand the purpose of knowledge, the very reason why he involves in education i.e. deen. He understands the scope of knowledge which is man himself – insan. He understands the content and construction of knowledge itself – ilm and marifah. He understands the relation of man and the content of knowledge so as to derive its application – hikmah. He understands the deployment of knowledge in relation to hikmah, arriving at the state of justice – adl. He understands the method of all of this – adab. And finally the form of implementation in relation to all of these, the university –

kulliyyah-jamiah.

It is in this way a Sull Kaak constructs himself, his university is a place where individuals through proper etiquette learn to do justice through knowledge employed with wisdom so that a complete individual emerges out of the system fulfilling the purpose for which his creator has made him. In such a harmonious system, his economics is not in contradiction with societal ethics, his anthropology not at loggerheads with religion, his sociology not opposed to his culture, he possesses the knowledge of the universals.

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