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April 09, 2005
Adjectivized Islam?
By Liaquat Ali written 01/08/2002
Islam, at its core, is gender equal, pluralistic, anti-slavery, individual-centric yet community and environment friendly.
Strong monotheism, individualistic reward and accountability, non-intercessional role of "clawless" clergy, emphasis on mutual consultation, universality of scope and encouragement of philanthropy provide a strong foundation for the application of the Qur’anic Laws in a society that is interested in creating an ideal human existence.
Islam, as it was revealed to the Beloved Prophet (saw), does not need any fixing. The Mullah Islam that is being fed to us through the Mullah Mafia is the problem. Since many people are not able to, in some case don't want to, differentiate between the Real Islam and the Mullah Islam, they come up with adjectives, such as, Liberal Islam, Moderate Islam, Progressive Islam, American Islam, etc., to define a humane version of Islam that is not as irrational, dogmatic and bigoted as the Mullah Islam.
Adjectivized Islam may provide euphoria to limited number of activists and intellectuals, but will never resonate with the Muslim masses. The Real Islam is what humanity in general and Muslims in particular are yearning for.
Whereas the Mullah Islam represents fossilized sets of interpretations of Islam that were done more than a millennium ago, the Real Islam is based on the Divine guidance that is preserved for humanity in the form of the Qur’an. Therefore the Real Islam can simply be extracted using a process that I call, "From the Qur’an Outwards" or FQO.
FQO, in short, is a process of the interpretation of Islam where the Qur’an sits at the driver seat, and all other sources of knowledge and wisdom, though extremely useful, take the back seat.
Posted by m12390 at April 9, 2005 02:08 AM
Comments
its me from MWU oh my goodness, i must be stalking u...followed your link to here...Mashallah wa Allahu Akbar great job, i think u r getting all the adjectives and isms correct, kudos on your work on the Quran
i'd buy yer book if u wrote one
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Posted by: fatima j at April 23, 2005 06:31 AM
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Posted by: Laurat Ali Bebeji at November 17, 2005 12:26 AM
Great job. To me we have no choice in this difficult times but to go back to the Quran as Guidance
Posted by: Bab at January 9, 2006 11:07 AM