La
hawla wala quwwata Illah billah!!! How much more kuffr can these people
do?!? These so-called 'Ulema"! Inna Lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji'un !!!
Reminder ya Muslimeen, be-careful whom you take your Deen from!
ABU DHABI // Calls for renewal of religion,
reassessment of outdated religious laws and orders, and putting an end
to excommunication, were made by leading Muslim scholars at the second
forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies.
Reviving Fiqh,
Islamic science, is no longer an option, but rather a “life buoy” to
stop indiscriminate applications of past-time fatwas or excommunication
by extremist groups, said the grand imam of Al Azhar.
“Renewal is
fundamental in the Islamic religion, which is based on constantly
linking between religious texts, the purpose of these texts and the
current living reality,” said Sheikh Abdullah bin Bayyah, president of
the forum.
“There are calls to renew religion and religious speech
and a religious revolution, as the Prophet’s companion, Ibn Masoud,
said: ‘One who wants religion shall revolutionise the Quran’.”
He
said that commands in religious revelations should be taken in context
and they should be viewed based on the general principle and universal
purpose of their implication.
He called for reviewing the fundamentals of Islamic science, as many rulings are no longer applicable in modern society.
“So
people take the revelation and think it is universally applicable in
every time and place,” added Sheikh Hamza Youssef, a renowned Muslim
personality and president of Zaytuna College.
Another
example is the apostasy law, which used to be a universal principle and
the general mentality of people at that time that leaving one’s
religion is a capital offence punished by death, which existed in
Christianity also.
“That was to protect the religion … but it is
no longer the mentality for the age we live in, so when you look at the
universal principle of Islam it is to attract people towards religion.”
However, he said, in the current age applying apostasy law will cause
more people to leave religion than to join it so it has an opposite
effect.
As for other Sharia penalties, specialised scholars need to sit and think about them: “It all needs to be reassessed,” he added.
Sheikh bin Bayyah said that only the majority of specialised scholars could play the role of religion renovators.
Rulers
are not expected to be angels, prophets or even good men of religion,
their role is to run the state well, and even if they were corrupt it is
not permissible to rebel against them by force like excommunicators do,
because that results in destruction and death of innocent souls, he
said.
Grand Sheikh Ahmed Al Tayyeb, of Al Azhar University, said
Fiqh principles should be revised to stop extremist groups from using
excommunication as an excuse to kill anyone who disagrees with their
organisation. They are using a fatwa issued centuries ago by the scholar
Ibn Taymiya, “who was busy facing the fierce and violent bloodshed
between Muslims and Tatar groups”, he said.
Since the majority of
scholars agreed that fatwas change with the change of time, place,
circumstance and conditions, such principles do not apply any longer.
He also called the forum to collect literature and media publications issued by terrorist groups to counter their arguments.
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Outdated religious laws must be changed, UAE forum hears...
Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies told that excommunication should be ended and changes made.
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