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Real vs Bogus Islam: Redressing the Adulteration of Knowledge by Traditions and Politics

Real vs Bogus Islam: Redressing the Adulteration of Knowledge by Traditions and Politics

Terebessy, Leslie

Paperback

IslamCollege Guides

ISBN13: 9798320635798
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 23 2024
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The revelation of Islam is recorded in the Book of Allah, which reiterates the teachings of the preceding revelations. It also addresses a range of errors in the knowledge of those revelations. The Book of Allah teaches reconciliation. Muslims are expected to command what is right and prohibit what is wrong. They did this in the past. Are they still doing this or are they epigons? The Book of Allah teaches justice, ethics and rationality. But there are no books on justice, ethics, or rationality in Bukhari. Books on freedom and governance are also missing. Tradition robbed Islam of its universality and tainted it with parochialism. Islamists treat wars of aggression as a sixth pillar of Islam. Rendering wars of aggression lawful was expedited by weaponizing exegesis and jurisprudence. The ulama became militant. The weaponization of knowledge entailed the abrogation of the verses of reconciliation by the verses of sword and recourse to militant traditions. Under pressure from rulers, hawkish ulama reinvented Islam as a religion of war. They transformed Islam into Islamism. In this they betrayed not just Islam but their profession, too. Renewal requires the desacralization of tradition. It requires refraining from treating tradition as revelation from God. It also requires the rejection of the subordination of revelation to tradition, reflected in the perception that tradition judges revelation. Renewal requires the rehabilitation and reengagement of reason in the understanding of revelation, too. It requires the analysis of tradition by a rational examination. The subordination of revelation to traditions was based on the perception that revelation requires clarification. Revelation features verses that are unclear, insufficiently detailed, and even contradictory. But these perceptions contradict the teaching of revelation. The Book of Allah teaches that it is clear, fully detailed, and coherent. The perception that revelation requires clarification stems from the reluctance to use reason to understand revelation. The clarification of revelation would be provided by tradition. The reluctance to use reason to understand revelation left the umma not just bereft of reason. It left it without the knowledge of the Book of Allah, too, as who could understand and follow what he or she does not understand? The reluctance to use reason to understand revelation -intellectual suicide - plunged the umma into the dark, where much of it remains to the present. For it is not possible to understand and follow revelation without using reason. The reluctance to use reason to understand revelation was on the assumption that using reason in religion is kufr. The prohibition of using reason for the purpose of understanding revelation detached the umma from the Book of Allah. By prohibiting the use of reason, traditionalists prevented the umma from following the Book of Allah. The ulama assert that God revealed 60 supplementary books of revelation to explain and detail the Book of Allah. This perception is truly remarkable. To reconcile the allegedly contradictory verses, the ulama resorted to the abrogation of the verses of reconciliation by the verse of the sword. Recourse to abrogation transformed the religion of reconciliation into a religion of war. The turn from revelation to tradition entailed a reorientation from a revelation-centric to a tradition-centric paradigm. Tradition superseded revelation. Renewal requires the return from tradition to revelation, the rehabilitation and reengagement of reason, the de-sacralization of tradition, the subordination of tradition to revelation, and the rejection of the teachings of abrogation and jihad al-talab as the sixth pillar of Islam in the struggle between dar al-Islam vs dar al-harb. Renewal requires a paradigm shift from the tradition-centric theological paradigm back to the revelation-centric paradigm.

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