Top 10 Polymaths in Islamicate History (2020-03-30) #

0:00:00 assalamualaikum warahmatullahi what I
0:00:02 care - how are you guys doing look who
0:00:06 I've been asking me to do reading lists
0:00:07 different kinds of reading lists for
0:00:08 recommended reading and one day I might
0:00:11 actually write a reading list and put it
0:00:12 on my website
0:00:14 Muhammad a not code at UK but today
0:00:18 what I wanted to do with you guys is
0:00:19 actually take you through ten islamic
0:00:22 eight polymaths that i think you should
0:00:24 know about and i'm putting them in
0:00:25 ranking order and why have I phrased it
0:00:29 in this way ten Islamic a Poli masters
0:00:31 because Islamic a is a area where
0:00:34 Islamic rule was dominant and sometimes
0:00:39 can refer to the Caliphate like for
0:00:41 example there are made rule or are
0:00:43 bested rule etc and so when I say
0:00:47 Islamic a polymaths it doesn't
0:00:48 necessarily mean that the people that
0:00:51 are being referenced must be Muslims I
0:00:52 mean or Arabs or anything like that it
0:00:55 just means that they were living under
0:00:56 that particular rule the Islamic eighth
0:00:58 rule and I'm mentioning these ten names
0:01:01 because I do think that they are the
0:01:05 polymath are you should know about
0:01:07 now when I say polymath I'm talking
0:01:10 about someone who has a special ism in
0:01:13 more than one discipline of study and
0:01:16 has actually had an influence in that
0:01:19 academic discipline and so this is
0:01:22 different to saying for example that you
0:01:25 are the most influential person or the
0:01:27 ten most influential people culturally
0:01:29 societally politically or economically
0:01:30 that's a different thing and so for this
0:01:34 reason I'm gonna not include obviously
0:01:36 the the Prophet Muhammad and their
0:01:40 Sahaba the Companions of the Prophet or
0:01:43 even the turbine for that matter if this
0:01:46 is strictly an academic exercise where
0:01:49 we look at using my subjective value
0:01:53 judgment of course ten of the people who
0:01:56 have contributed most to in my opinion
0:01:59 obviously too in that area and what I'm
0:02:06 not including in the area is sub-saharan
0:02:08 Africa and I'll be honest with you the
0:02:09 reason why is because I have very
0:02:11 limited knowledge of the area
0:02:13 likewise I'm not including China as
0:02:15 though obviously Islam spread to China
0:02:19 I'm not including it because once again
0:02:22 my knowledge is pretty much non-existent
0:02:24 in terms of Chinese coach I'm a cadet
0:02:28 academia et cetera on these on these
0:02:30 issues so let's get started before we
0:02:34 actually start listing my criteria for
0:02:37 subjective value judgment will be
0:02:39 basically influenced in as many distinct
0:02:42 fields of study as possible so let's
0:02:45 start that number 10 the my list is L
0:02:48 Bay ruining I bitterly was a Persian he
0:02:52 was a polymath and he basically
0:02:55 specialized in more than one field he
0:02:57 specialized in astronomy in geology he
0:03:01 wrote a book called Honolulu Massoud II
0:03:03 almost out his law which was basically
0:03:06 like an encyclopedia it was encyclopedia
0:03:09 of astronomy of engineering and so on
0:03:13 and so he wrote another book called fe @
0:03:17 fe masala sorry at the feem listen art
0:03:22 and Jim which is basically and the you
0:03:24 know understanding astrology and for
0:03:26 those people at that time I strongly gen
0:03:28 astronomy were very much interlinked but
0:03:30 it was not astrological as much as it
0:03:34 was that book is actually astronomical
0:03:36 the interesting thing about by Rooney is
0:03:38 that he was also a comparative religion
0:03:40 st went to india he spent time in india
0:03:43 and he was an ideology basically he did
0:03:45 a comparative religious study between
0:03:47 like quranic and islamic precepts and
0:03:50 obviously hindu precepts and i think he
0:03:51 was probably one of the first 1050
0:03:55 milady which is gregorian calendar so
0:03:59 this is a person who has had a profound
0:04:02 impact and the reason why i put him as
0:04:04 number 10 is because of the impact he's
0:04:05 had on astronomy in particular I mean
0:04:07 this guy even basically measured the
0:04:10 radius of the sort of circumference of
0:04:15 the other of the earth and came to about
0:04:18 2% accuracy from current day numbers so
0:04:22 this guy was most certainly someone who
0:04:25 was influential more than one field he
0:04:29 was a comparative religion Asst he was
0:04:32 an astronomer geology geology expert and
0:04:36 so on
0:04:37 number nine is al Kindi al Kindi and we
0:04:41 used to fear hope in his heart al Kindi
0:04:45 a Saba al-kindi he died 873 ad and
0:04:51 basically he was seen as like you know
0:04:55 the father of philosophy for the Arabs
0:04:58 and he was an Arab one of the only that
0:05:00 we're gonna mention on this list and the
0:05:05 reason why I put him in this is because
0:05:07 to be honest he was even referenced by I
0:05:10 mean in terms of things like mathematics
0:05:12 he might not have been as prominent but
0:05:15 in terms of philosophy he was certainly
0:05:16 incredibly influential he had a massive
0:05:20 impact to only been seen on every sana
0:05:22 his ideas would trickle through to his
0:05:25 ideas he was a physician so he basically
0:05:28 done a lot of work in medicine and
0:05:33 actually he was referenced Bible Hatem
0:05:35 and after that some contribution to
0:05:39 optics as well so you can imagine this
0:05:41 person he's put his hand in so many jars
0:05:43 and has actually been influential or
0:05:47 almost all of them talk about influence
0:05:51 number eight is al Howard's me Muhammad
0:05:53 the new even more self cover is me and
0:05:56 basically you might know him already for
0:05:59 writing a book which is very well known
0:06:02 if you don't know it you'll know about
0:06:04 the result of it which is algebra in the
0:06:07 kitab or the book that he wrote as kid
0:06:09 al khattab Albertosaurus algebra 1 mu
0:06:14 kabbalah which is basically a
0:06:16 compendious book on calculations by
0:06:19 complete by completion and balancing
0:06:21 this is a book now basically he was
0:06:23 outlining quadratic expressions and all
0:06:27 these kind of things which we learn in
0:06:28 school nowadays and by the way these
0:06:31 you'll be surprised as to the effect
0:06:33 that algebra has had on the world in
0:06:34 terms of engineering like nowadays if
0:06:36 someone if you know someone doesn't
0:06:38 doing
0:06:38 University they have to go through a
0:06:41 rigorous like mathematical program where
0:06:43 they know their algebra very well
0:06:45 because any kind of engineering you'll
0:06:47 know will depend on algebraic
0:06:49 formulations so you a lot you probably
0:06:53 walking in the street and looking at
0:06:54 buildings or maybe riding an aeroplane
0:06:56 and not realize that the impact that
0:06:58 alcohol is me has had on that is
0:07:02 actually massive because algebra has
0:07:05 facilitated the way for people to be
0:07:08 able to operate in that way
0:07:10 number seven is Maimonides or most have
0:07:13 been my own now he was a jew but it was
0:07:16 a jewish jurist the philosopher logician
0:07:17 an astronomer but this man is seen as
0:07:21 probably the most influential scholar in
0:07:25 all of judaism after him in this column
0:07:28 the second Moses he is a polymath in the
0:07:32 sense that he actually wrote on
0:07:33 different issues he was a Jewish jurist
0:07:36 he's a philosopher logician and even an
0:07:38 astronomer you know so there's books
0:07:40 that he's written in Hebrew but also
0:07:43 mostly he's written in Arabic so he
0:07:44 wrote that and that hye-rin which is the
0:07:47 guide for look perplexed which is book
0:07:49 on logic and basically takes the kind of
0:07:52 same route as like Thomas Aquinas law
0:07:56 has a lien those individuals there where
0:07:58 you kind of systematic theology proving
0:08:00 God's existence and those kinds of
0:08:02 things he was incredibly influential and
0:08:05 probably the most influential Jewish
0:08:06 scholar of all times my poem is number
0:08:10 seven because obviously he lived and
0:08:12 within the Islamic the Islamic a if you
0:08:15 like and so his work flourished in the
0:08:18 context of Islamic rule
0:08:21 six is even hater know able hater will
0:08:26 be known for his book of optics now
0:08:29 really and truly the book of optics was
0:08:31 a massive breakthrough in the way we
0:08:34 perceived basically optics and he ran
0:08:38 experiments which he did in a systematic
0:08:41 and scientific way to try and basically
0:08:46 understand how optics work and how the
0:08:49 human eye works and he wrote a lot of
0:08:52 things and what really made him special
0:08:54 in addition to all these great
0:08:56 contributions to objects is actually his
0:08:58 contribution to what we would call today
0:08:59 as a philosophy of science because
0:09:01 really and truly what he did whilst he
0:09:04 was doing his science he wasn't just
0:09:05 thinking as many unfortunately
0:09:07 scientists do now when they go to the
0:09:08 laboratory about the systems but he was
0:09:10 thinking about how to refine the systems
0:09:13 itself and this is called the philosophy
0:09:15 of science so he has seen as kind of
0:09:17 like an architect for the philosophy of
0:09:19 science
0:09:19 he put conditions in place he saw what
0:09:22 would be appropriate what wouldn't be
0:09:23 appropriate cetera but in addition to
0:09:26 that he wrote about a standing of like
0:09:28 the history of these things like history
0:09:32 philosophy history of intellectuals I
0:09:35 wanted to do a same video like this but
0:09:37 for the Western world because one of the
0:09:39 people I definitely put on my top ten in
0:09:41 the Western world would be told me now
0:09:42 told him he basically wrote a book and
0:09:45 this book that told me he was in Helenus
0:09:48 he was a Hellenistic thinker yeah so he
0:09:50 exists at the same kind of time in the
0:09:53 Greek ancient Greek time where Aristotle
0:09:55 and those guys also existed and totally
0:09:57 basically had a very he had he had a
0:10:01 theory on geocentric geocentric models
0:10:03 where he basically pretty it was a but
0:10:05 basically was a working model on how he
0:10:08 thought basically the Sun goes around
0:10:10 the earth and but not only that but all
0:10:11 of the all of the planets go around the
0:10:14 earth and he had these kind of eccentric
0:10:15 circles etc this was part of Ptolemies
0:10:18 model but Ptolemies model his geocentric
0:10:21 model persisted for basically I would
0:10:24 say a millennium more than a millennium
0:10:26 after his death so everyone was going
0:10:29 along with this geocentric model all the
0:10:30 astronomers were using totem his work
0:10:32 that's why he would be action
0:10:34 even despite the fact that we would
0:10:35 consider him wrong now because of a
0:10:37 heliocentric model he'd be considered
0:10:39 one of the greatest thinkers of Western
0:10:41 history told him me however now if the
0:10:45 Haitham wrote a book which is translated
0:10:48 into English as the doubts concerning
0:10:50 Ptolemy and this is a lesson for us
0:10:52 because when basically people in the
0:10:55 Islamic Golden Age and this would be
0:10:57 considered the Islamic Golden Age but
0:10:59 when they started to doubt yeah when
0:11:01 they started to doubt and they started
0:11:03 to challenge prevailing Greek ideas that
0:11:06 is when they made their best and most
0:11:08 impressive innovative contributions in
0:11:10 all fields and it's a lesson to us
0:11:13 because nowadays we it's not even about
0:11:15 it's not even astronomical now we have
0:11:17 ideological things which we're afraid to
0:11:19 challenge things like second wave
0:11:20 feminism or things like liberalism or
0:11:23 things like communism in in a previous
0:11:25 time where those ideas are so pervasive
0:11:28 because they've been propounded by a
0:11:30 superpower military superpower that
0:11:33 we're afraid to challenge them but if
0:11:35 you think about will hate them here he's
0:11:37 challenging the only Greek ideas of a
0:11:40 philosophical perspective but he's
0:11:41 challenging Ptolemy told him is
0:11:44 astronomy which was seen as kind of like
0:11:47 an immutable philosophy or an
0:11:49 incorrigible philosophy or astronomy for
0:11:52 over four centuries people really had it
0:11:55 entrenched in their astronomical mine
0:11:56 and the cosmological image of the
0:11:58 universe was a geocentric one and they
0:12:00 used Toto me as the main academic you
0:12:05 know reasoning for that and his model of
0:12:07 eccentric revolutions of the planets and
0:12:10 he had a whole theory so the fact that
0:12:13 he did that was big and and that's why I
0:12:17 put him is number six number five is
0:12:19 folklore Dean arrazi now we're moving
0:12:21 away from Canada scientific aspects now
0:12:23 to more a theological aspects and a
0:12:25 philosophical aspects because faculty de
0:12:27 Rossi was not known as an astronomer or
0:12:29 you know a medical expert but he was
0:12:33 known as one of the main exegetes of
0:12:36 Islam actually his tough seer you know a
0:12:39 tough silly Kabir or the great
0:12:42 commentary is one the biggest and most
0:12:44 profound tefa seer of all times
0:12:47 Oh
0:12:47 basically exegetical works and in that
0:12:50 tough serie realized a lot of the
0:12:52 emphasis is on language which is why
0:12:55 it's very very fair for us to actually
0:12:57 consider him a linguist in addition as
0:13:00 being an XJ even though he didn't as far
0:13:03 as I know right any you know or he
0:13:05 didn't specialize in language in any
0:13:07 formal sense in the same way as someone
0:13:09 like maybe a see away oh I don't know as
0:13:12 I'm actually would have but in that same
0:13:15 vein though we have to look at his have
0:13:17 seen is very much linguistic so I would
0:13:19 consider him a linguist and exergy
0:13:21 a logician because he wrote katha
0:13:24 beautiful Kabir which is basically the
0:13:26 major book her on logic but he also
0:13:28 wrote many works in philosophy and
0:13:31 philosophical kind of theology if you
0:13:33 like as well oh he could even argues he
0:13:36 would refer to as that philosophy of
0:13:38 religion so these things here fast road
0:13:41 Dean of Rossi was one of the most
0:13:43 profound and influential scholars to the
0:13:46 extent whereby actually his kind of
0:13:48 credo ideas are still being used and
0:13:50 propounded nowadays in Metairie and
0:13:52 ashari circles much to the credit of
0:13:55 Rossi so most of the kind of credo
0:13:59 ammunition used nowadays in a polemical
0:14:02 sense goes back to Farah Dean of Rossi
0:14:05 I'm talking about pilaris ism number
0:14:07 four is even taymiyah himself now once
0:14:11 again he's not is not really a he's not
0:14:13 known for his astronomy he's not known
0:14:15 for his medical knowledge but he is
0:14:17 known for his Jewish Prudential
0:14:18 knowledge his philosophical knowledge
0:14:19 his logical knowledge and his
0:14:21 comparative religion knowledge so I
0:14:23 would consider him yes a comparative
0:14:25 religion it's because of his Katti batti
0:14:27 are bizarre here which was one of the
0:14:29 most comprehensive and impressive works
0:14:31 which is the kind of the correct reply
0:14:34 to the Christians
0:14:36 it's a polemical work against the
0:14:38 Christian presuppositions but it is one
0:14:40 which shows a high level especially for
0:14:42 that time of research yeah done you know
0:14:47 in terms of Christianity
0:14:49 now he's different to Albert you obey
0:14:50 Rooney because L by Rory was also
0:14:51 comparative religion aspo he but advair
0:14:54 only makes it very clear when he's
0:14:55 talking about his in his
0:14:57 in the illogical studies that actually
0:14:59 I'm not here to try and you know
0:15:01 disprove the Hindu ideas
0:15:03 he said I'm trying to just do an
0:15:05 objective review whereas obviously
0:15:07 wouldn't a mere comes from a multiple
0:15:08 polemical stance but both are academic
0:15:10 both find academic vantage points I mean
0:15:13 you can do either and still be a
0:15:15 comparative religion estudar than 13:28
0:15:19 and basically the interesting thing
0:15:20 about Minh tamiya he's about seven
0:15:22 hundred years after the Prophet Muhammad
0:15:23 and seven hundred years before us
0:15:25 so his slap-bang in the middle of the
0:15:28 historical timeline in terms of where he
0:15:30 stands
0:15:31 another thing about him is that his the
0:15:33 production of scholars that he's
0:15:34 produced is something quite amazing so
0:15:37 he's produced scholars like him hyemi
0:15:39 josiya even kathira there be a Missy you
0:15:42 know even muffler and the list goes on
0:15:44 and on so his influence you know it
0:15:47 stretches a long time into our present
0:15:51 day and why this is why I put him as
0:15:52 number four because he's still
0:15:54 influential just like Muslim in my own
0:15:55 but you could say only demographically
0:15:58 more influential scale because Muslim
0:16:03 Sudanese and in particular Salafism
0:16:05 because he's really influenced salafism
0:16:07 are more numerous and number than than
0:16:10 the Jewish community the entire Jewish
0:16:13 community in fact so his his
0:16:16 contribution is massive and he's still
0:16:19 being referenced today in almost all
0:16:21 theological and academics if you don't
0:16:22 know Herman taymiyah was you should know
0:16:24 because he is most certainly one of the
0:16:28 most influential men in history actually
0:16:30 to be honest so I've put him as number
0:16:33 four there number three is even rushed
0:16:35 now Abel rose to you by arguing ok how
0:16:37 can you put in rush before Bentham Mia
0:16:39 maybe a you know hardcore Soloff is
0:16:41 watching
0:16:43 as a higher level than they've been
0:16:45 Tamia and look this shows you this and
0:16:46 this shows you I said this in be quite a
0:16:47 placement brother because right now I'm
0:16:50 not making in a credo point now soldiers
0:16:51 in the beginning I put a Jew in this top
0:16:55 10 and I'm not making a point of creed
0:16:58 or not trying to muddy call it succumb
0:17:04 to my denominational urges right now I'm
0:17:06 just you know making a point of
0:17:09 objective reality rushed is there is why
0:17:12 I put him as number three is because of
0:17:14 his contribution to so many different
0:17:17 fields including philosophy theology
0:17:19 medicine astronomy mathematics fit which
0:17:24 is Islamic jurisprudence and so on and
0:17:26 so forth he wrote Baudette and washed
0:17:27 ahead which is something by the way that
0:17:31 is studied in medina university which is
0:17:33 a conservative university so
0:17:36 quote-unquote conservative but bedazzled
0:17:38 mooster hey this is well known but he
0:17:41 also wrote a cool yet first tip which is
0:17:43 basically the comprehensive knowledge of
0:17:46 medicine so for him to do both of those
0:17:48 things there that's really for me is
0:17:51 asked astonishing that he could actually
0:17:53 have contributions like this
0:17:54 unfortunately a lot of his astronomical
0:17:56 stuff hasn't survived but we know that
0:17:58 he was part of a movement that was
0:18:00 casting aspersion on old Telemachus
0:18:04 centricity and though he's like I
0:18:07 haven't seen many of his muscle taught
0:18:09 or his manuscripts maybe they haven't
0:18:11 been miss catalogs or something but in
0:18:13 astronomy he's been referenced by all
0:18:15 the other astronomers you know his time
0:18:17 in the Golden Age and he's seen as in
0:18:19 that movement to push back against the
0:18:22 tone of make series despite the fact
0:18:26 that he was a great commentator for
0:18:28 Aristotle in fact he was referred to as
0:18:29 the commentator you know for Aristotle
0:18:32 so he was here ought to have that effort
0:18:34 which obviously is a response to has a
0:18:36 least Hamilton philosopher he didn't
0:18:39 disagree with as Elian every point but
0:18:41 that's another massive philosophical
0:18:43 work which shows you the depth of his
0:18:45 knowledge in that field so for those
0:18:47 reasons because he was one of the few
0:18:49 people that could be good in science and
0:18:51 good and social science I had to put him
0:18:53 as number three
0:18:55 because this is about polymaths how much
0:18:57 of a polymath you are okay now become
0:18:59 number two el Ezeli and Muhammad as then
0:19:02 Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed in to seal
0:19:05 has early um-hum and the year he died is
0:19:09 gonna be memorable for all because I see
0:19:11 a 1 1 1 1 log percent more time yes year
0:19:15 1 1 1 1 and he was one of the most
0:19:17 prominent and influential I mean you can
0:19:20 he is one of the most influential people
0:19:22 all time yeah trust me he was a polymath
0:19:28 he wrote on philosophy theology
0:19:32 jurisprudence and he knew about
0:19:33 mathematics now once again if he did
0:19:38 there is what I haven't put him as
0:19:40 number one is because he didn't write on
0:19:42 only astronomical sciences on on physics
0:19:46 etc was the number number one person
0:19:48 that I'm gonna mention they'd do those
0:19:50 things he wrote a Templeton philosopher
0:19:53 which is probably one of the most well
0:19:54 known works a hero which is the
0:19:55 Inquisitor philosophers but he also
0:19:57 wrote something like a most as far and
0:19:59 most Asif Asif book and his teacher
0:20:03 l.joe a knee he wrote another book on a
0:20:07 sulphate which basically Mustapha is I
0:20:09 would say is a refined version of and it
0:20:13 was tossed father a surly book with this
0:20:15 Asura fifth book the hero has such a
0:20:19 lasting impact I even went into humbly
0:20:21 circles obviously someone like him nope
0:20:23 Adama
0:20:24 alma courtesy heroes never known another
0:20:29 which is another holy textbook it's very
0:20:32 much connected to al Mustafa and if you
0:20:35 look at the first manuscripts I ignored
0:20:37 my role in terms of another it had an
0:20:40 epistemological
0:20:42 preamble if you like so in the beginning
0:20:45 of almost as far along as le revised
0:20:48 epistemology which is basically a
0:20:51 philosophical sub-branch even up Adama
0:20:53 and his because basically I wrote was
0:20:55 another is I would say is an
0:20:57 abbreviation or some kind of
0:20:58 condensation of condensed version sorry
0:21:01 of almost a song he also left that in
0:21:05 but then there was a bit of a kind of
0:21:08 backlash and humbly circles having said
0:21:10 that though he has such an impact on
0:21:14 basically us all because a soul elf it
0:21:16 is very much connected to logical
0:21:19 precepts and so alphas early alphas
0:21:23 early has has an impact on that had an
0:21:26 impact on Islamic philosophy from that's
0:21:28 kind of replied to the philosophers book
0:21:30 hero and obviously he was a chef I and
0:21:34 jurisprudence he was a master of that as
0:21:36 well he was also of Persian origin which
0:21:38 shows us that this list is dominated by
0:21:41 the Persians talking about someone who's
0:21:43 of Persian origin and someone who's had
0:21:45 a massive impact unfortunately not
0:21:48 someone who has an emetic fear of I'm
0:21:51 not saying that's unfortunate in a sense
0:21:52 it's a wrong take fear
0:21:53 it's just unfortunate i he fell into
0:21:56 these mistakes of takfeer eben cena who
0:22:00 died 10:37 he's number one in my opinion
0:22:02 and the reason why he's clearly not a
0:22:04 head and shoulders in terms of being a
0:22:06 polymath above everybody else is because
0:22:09 frankly he was able to contribute more
0:22:12 to all of the other sub branches that
0:22:14 anyone else had been able to do that
0:22:16 seriously it's been able to contribute
0:22:18 to things like astronomy and philosophy
0:22:23 to a high high level obviously my book
0:22:26 that I wrote Kalam cosmological
0:22:28 arguments which is available online I
0:22:30 spent a lot of time on it but Xena
0:22:32 and the reason why my opinion is because
0:22:34 everyone else learned from him even as I
0:22:36 Lee who attacked him I I think he
0:22:38 basically is very clear that he agrees
0:22:40 with him or so many things even in
0:22:42 potamia who attacks him you he'll see
0:22:45 that you know he agrees with him and
0:22:47 what they do what even taymir does and
0:22:49 what has led us is they try basically
0:22:53 and create to to Civ even seen as
0:22:56 arguments for the existence of God for
0:22:58 example into kind of like a channel of
0:23:02 Orthodoxy obviously in potamia was like
0:23:05 humble I what would call Salafi today
0:23:08 like where as Ezeli was more sorry yeah
0:23:13 so both of those had slightly different
0:23:16 schools of credo thought but both of
0:23:19 them did the same kind of thing for
0:23:21 respective schools of thought which is
0:23:22 to sift through the ideas of Ivan Cena
0:23:25 and to clean up basically according to
0:23:28 the principles the particular school of
0:23:30 thought that they came from and then to
0:23:32 churn out what would be the most you
0:23:35 know the strongest arguments and most
0:23:37 crudely compatible arguments but his
0:23:40 effect on on Islamic or on on Kalam
0:23:43 basically which is the idea of argument
0:23:47 for first principles and so on has been
0:23:49 by far the most impactful so and he
0:23:55 wrote a book called ashy fair which I
0:23:56 mean his his work on medicine yeah is
0:24:00 incredible for the time and his work of
0:24:03 medicine was translated and useful for
0:24:05 the next five or six hundred seven
0:24:06 hundred years it shows you this the
0:24:08 level of this guy's ability to
0:24:11 specialize in more than one field was
0:24:13 something which was you won't find in
0:24:15 every generation now the question is
0:24:18 what do we learn from all of this what
0:24:20 we learn is that being a polymath is not
0:24:22 an easy Enterprise and the importance of
0:24:25 specialism to be honest from what we've
0:24:27 seen from the list that I've provided
0:24:28 more most polymers generally and
0:24:31 obviously this is something that is
0:24:33 specific to this list but generally most
0:24:35 polymers are specialized in very similar
0:24:36 fields like for example theology and
0:24:38 philosophy or geometry astronomy and
0:24:40 mathematics where skills and knowledge
0:24:41 intersect and are transferable
0:24:44 there was actually interesting beef what
0:24:47 did you say yes interesting beef between
0:24:51 urban scene and LB Rooney and basically
0:24:56 this beef was I'm gonna reduce our
0:24:57 actually as really interesting even see
0:25:02 now in one of his books yeah he was like
0:25:09 he's not really gifted in philosophical
0:25:11 maths and people and they ruin it
0:25:13 because he tried to challenge you've
0:25:14 been seen in in philosophy and he made a
0:25:16 mockery of himself
0:25:18 realized okay this guy's call his
0:25:20 specialism in this guy's call his
0:25:21 specially they really realized that
0:25:22 himself because I they really realized I
0:25:25 himself he said something really
0:25:26 interesting which I want to read and he
0:25:27 goes and this is actually translated his
0:25:31 that's a beautiful thing here
0:25:33 goes for the one who attempts
0:25:36 encompassing all things would lose the
0:25:38 whole you know what I mean here this is
0:25:42 very important he goes the one he this
0:25:44 bear ruining a polymath himself he's
0:25:46 realized that so he's tried to get
0:25:47 involved in philosophy we wouldn't see
0:25:49 never seen it's like the top guy the one
0:25:51 who attempts encompassing all things
0:25:53 will lose though just like when Floyd
0:25:54 Mayweather had a match with Conor
0:25:56 McGregor it was just like embarrassing
0:25:58 for for Conor McGregor because the
0:26:01 levels are different if you want to
0:26:02 specialize in one thing it's like going
0:26:04 to the Olympics and getting a gold medal
0:26:05 in two sports a bit only would say for
0:26:09 the one who attempts encompassing all
0:26:11 things would lose the whole lesson here
0:26:13 in terms of academic lesson is simply
0:26:16 this if you want to be good at something
0:26:19 be good at one or two things which are
0:26:22 closely related and that's it man don't
0:26:24 go everywhere because you end up doing
0:26:26 nothing if you try and do everything you
0:26:28 end up doing nothing I hope this was
0:26:30 very edifying Salam alaikum