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Is Islam a Religion of War?: Abrogation and the Re-interpretation of Revelation

Is Islam a Religion of War?: Abrogation and the Re-interpretation of Revelation

Terebessy, Leslie

Paperback

IslamCollege Guides

ISBN13: 9798326718914
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 26 2024
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Islam is reportedly a teaching of reconciliation. But is Islam really a teaching of reconciliation? Not everyone concurs. When we perceive terror perpetrated by Muslims, it is difficult to agree that they adhere to a religion of peace. It gets worse when jurists extoll act of terror as martyrdom operations. An exploration of jurisprudence reveals that traditional jurists are far from the tradition of the prophet, or following the Book of Allah. The turn from the Book of Allah to books of traditions was an epistemological paradigm shift of epic proportions. It was an effort to bypass the prohibition of unlawful wars of aggression in the Book of Allah, required to justify empire-building. The reorientation transformed if not corrupted the way Muslims would understand and practice their faith. The shift in effect replaced a revelation-centric paradigm with a tradition-centric paradigm. In turning from revelation tradition traditional jurisprudence broke from the tradition of Muhammad, who adhered to the Book of Allah and prohibited the recording of his traditions. When it turned from revelation to the traditions of the prophet, recorded in defiance of his prohibition of doing so, the umma also broke from the Book of Allah. The reorientation transpired notwithstanding that the Book of Allah exhorts the Muslims to adhere to revelation without referring to the tradition of the prophet. To justify the turn from revelation to tradition, traditionalist jurists mis-rendered the term hikma (wisdom) to refer to the tradition of the prophet. Misgivings regarding Muslims are also triggered by the extremism of wayward Muslims. Reservation are exacerbated by the penal code, which prescribes death penalties for offences not treated as capital crimes in the Book of Allah. These encompass apostasy, adultery and blasphemy. These acts are not punishable by death in the Book of Allah. Accordingly, administering death penalties for blasphemy, adultery or apostasy is tantamount to murder. The sharia is expected to protect us from crime; not to require its perpetration as punishment for acts not treated as capital crimes in the Book of Allah. If by Islam we understand what the Book of Allah teaches, then Islam is a religion of peace. If by Islam is meant what traditions say, the answer is different. This is true of the rulings of traditionalist jurists, too. For the hawkish ulema, at the request by rulers bent on territorial enlargement through wars of aggression reinvented Islam as a religion of war. This is a betrayal of Islam It is raising tensions between the Muslims and non-Muslims. It also fuels Islamophobia. The peace verses restrained rulers from behaving as they pleased. Accordingly, rulers bent on wars of aggression required a reinterpretation of Islam that would render wars of aggression lawful. The reinterpretation of revelation as a teaching of war was provided by jurists eager to accommodate their rulers. These jurists reinterpreted Islam as a religion of war through the weaponization of the exegesis and jurisprudence. The weaponization of exegesis and jurisprudence required their recalibration to enable them to endorse the political ambitions of hawkish rulers. The weaponization of exegesis and jurisprudence was expedited by the repression of reason and recourse to related perceptions. The weaponization of exegesis and jurisprudence required the treatment of tradition as revelation and recourse to the teaching of abrogation. Treating traditions as revelation enabled jurists to abrogate and replace parts of revelation by traditions. Recourse to the abrogation of the verses of reconciliation by verses 9:5 and 9:29 provided the justification for the abrogation of verses that teach reconciliation. The reinterpretation of revelation through the weaponization of exegesis and jurisprudence required a rejection of a few of its teachings. This distanced the umma to an extent from the Book of Allah.

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