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Lies My Sheik Told Me: Unravelling Islamism

Lies My Sheik Told Me: Unravelling Islamism

Terebessy, Leslie

Paperback

Islam

ISBN13: 9798313278896
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 7 2025
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Islam is the third of three Abrahamic faiths, that further encompass Judaism and Christianity. The Old Testament reflects the Tawrat while the New Testament reflects the Injeel. Both are referred to regularly in the Book of Allah. The Book of Allah reiterates the Tawrat and the Injeel. The Book does not say, as sectarian ulama do, that it abrogates the Tawrat and the Injeel. The Book of Allah is the Final Testament. It also rectifies different misperceptions regarding the preceding scriptures. Allah did not leave His creatures without guidance. Allah brings His servants from darkness to light, from ignorance to knowledge. Allah teaches the difference between truth and falsehood. He teaches the difference between right and wrong. This knowledge is required to live well. The Book of Allah is the furqan, the criterion or standard for differentiating right from wrong and the true from the false. There are no intermediaries in Islam. There are no middlemen in Islam. We are asked to follow the Book of Allah and to heed His signs. The prophet recited and adhered to the Book of Allah. Religion was utilized for political purposes. Hawkish rulers used Islam to arouse and marshal the umma to struggle to realize a particular perspective. The aim was to defeat or subjugate non-Muslims in the epic struggle between good and evil, between the realm of peace (dar al-Islam) and the realm of unbelief (dar al-kufr). Unlawful wars of aggression were justified by clerics and waged by militant rulers under the rubric of Islam. At the behest of hawkish rulers, bellicose ulama set to reinterpret revelation to justify waging unlawful wars of aggression to enlarge the empire. The ulama expedited the transformation of the religion of peace into a religion of war through the weaponization of exegesis and jurisprudence. This required treating tradition as revelation, the repression of reason, and recourse to the teaching of abrogation. The sacralization of tradition enabled recourse to hawkish traditions, which were then used to abrogate restrictions of warfare to self-defense. The treatment of tradition as revelation also assisted in the subordination of revelation to tradition and even in the replacement of revealed rulings by rulings from traditions. These steps were in violation of the teaching of revelation, as in one way or another they encroached upon tawhid and the preeminence of revelation as the exclusive source of legislation in religion. The treatment of tradition as revelation was inaugurated by the recording of traditions. This was done despite the prohibition of adding to revelation in the Book of Allah. The recording of traditions was also undertaken in defiance of the prophet's prohibition of recording his traditions. The recording of traditions set in motion the gradual fall of the umma, for it reflected a partial turn from the Book of Allah to books of traditions. Exegeses of revelation relay its teaching in different words. In that way, exegesis is a paraphrase of the revealed text. A reliable paraphrase relays a teaching without distorting its meaning. Exegeses are performed for different reasons. The usual reason proffered to justify exegesis is to make the text accessible to the reader. This perception, however, rests upon the assumption that the teaching of the Book of Allah, is not readily accessible, especially by persons with scant knowledge and without expertise. But the Book of Allah presents itself as easy to understand and remember. It also presents itself as clear. Would we expect a teaching that is easy to understand and remember to be difficult? Understanding a book that is easy to understand and remember therefore would unlikely require expert knowledge. Besides, the Book of Allah uses analogies that just about everybody is able to relate to. Accordingly, the perception that the Book of Allah is difficult to understand goes against what the Book teaches about itself.

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