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Dear Cannon of the Quran,
It was a superb address last night as expected.
I apologize for not being able to participate due to technical naivety on my part.
Thanks, and God bless you!
Asar,
I really believe that Allama Iqbal had correctly pointed out that the Ummah awaits a re-awakening amongst the Arabs.. for a revival of its own. And you have pointed it out, too.
Lets hope it is within our life time..
Well Done, Sir.
Regards
ASARULISLAM’S RESPONSE: Thanks Salman Masum for writing and giving us hope and optimism. You are a brilliant professional and it is an honor to receive a comment from someone of your caliber. Also especially, since you have been my lifetime friend, one who has known me since 1964. We were together at Cadet College Hasanabdal and as 13 year old kids, we used to sit and ponder, and shed tears over the sad state of affairs in the Islamic world. Our time is here. Pakistan needs a change, a big one. Thanks for being one of those who endorse Quran’s vision.
My prayers to Allah for your family and you.
Salaam;
There is a cardinal principle that judges the success or faliure of a revolution, which states “If the removal of an established system of government, as a result of a general uprising against it, does not uplift the economic status of the common people, then it denotes an utter faliure.
Dear Fiqah-Hadis-Shariah Lovers:
A Muslim remains a Muslim by having Imaan or faith in only six items:
1) Allah;
2) Prophets;
3) Revealed Books;
4) Angels;
5) Life after Death; and
6) Fate.
Therefore, believing in Hadises, let alone Fiqh and Shariah Law, made by humanbeings NOT Allah is NOT mandatory. Every educated Muslim has the right to question the Hadis Literature, collected and compiled 200/300 years after the demise of the Holy Prophet (PBUH). Imam Bukhari, for example, collected more than 600,000 Hadises and discarded most of them and retained around 7,000 of them which he considered Sahih or authentic. A man in the 9th or 12th century — even with the best of intellect and intentions — whether it was imam bukhari, Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam ahmad, Imam Shafi or Imam Hanbal and for that matter anyone, including Imam Ghazzali cannot come near any smart college graduate in the 21st century. Because despite having very high IQ and impeccable character, people in the medieval period were most definitely less informed and knowledgable than educated people in our time. People like Bukhari or Ghazzali did not know that the earth is round, not flat; the earth moves around rather than the sun rather than the sun moving around the earth etc.
This is the reason why we find so many ridiculous, vulgar, idiotic, anti-Quranic, anri-science, anti-common sense things in the Hadis Literature. The way different Rawis narrated hadises 200/300 years after the Prophet (PBUH) does not mean all of them are authentic. Muslim ulama, Hadis scholars especially, tell us that the Hadises are authentic because twenty or fifty narrators told the same thing to different Hadis collectors in different times (To Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmizi, Ibn-e-Maja and others). As Pakistanis you people are aware of so many contradictory stories about what Qaid-eAzam Jinnah said or did in 1937 or 1947. People who saw Jinnah are still alive (in their eighties and nineties), yet there are so many contradictory stories in an age of newspapers, TV and radio. Various people in the days of Bukhari narrated popular stories and traditions they heard from their parents, grand parents and through them to the respective parents and grand parents of the previous seven, eight or ten generations. some of them could be true, some of them could be total fabrications. People said different things attributing them to the Holy Prophet (PBUH) to justify slavery, polygamy, concubianage, dozens of wives for rulers, harem, eunuch body guards (castrated male slaves — what a cruelty!), female genital mutilation, rajm or stoning to death for adultery by married people (The Quran specifies 100 lashed for both married and unmarried adulterer/adulteress). There is a Shaih Hadis, which tells us: “Allah curses three people, the slave who has fled from his master’s house, disobedient wife and one who thinks of rebellion against his/her ruler”. What a “beautiful idea” to justify slavery, male-domination and absolute rule. No wonder, some Al-Azhar Sheikhs justifioed Hosni Munarak’s rule as many pakistani Ulama justified and defended Zia ul-Haq the Butcher of Islam.
In sum, there is absolutely no room for Shariah or Fiqh in our age. The so-called ulama, those who till the other day believed that the earth was flat and sun moves round the earth, cannot be authorities on Islam. again, in Sunni Islam there is absolutely NO room for any intermediary between allah and His creation. There is NO formal clergy in Islam. So, a Muslim should rely only on the Quran and his/her common sense and scientific knowledge. Sooner we delegitimize Shariah, Fiqh and the Ulama, the so-called Naib-e-Rasul, the better for the Muslims. May Allah give us the courage and wisdom to live in a wrorld free from the clutches of the Draconian anti-Islamic Shariah law and their equally draconuian cistodians, the mullah and their followers, everywjhere, Amin!
Take care.
Taj Hashmi
Professor, Security Studies
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
@Junaid Malik –
aslamoaleakum wa rehmatullah he wa barakatahuu…
sallam poora kia kijiay plz…thanks
Dear Mr Hashmi,
Going through the list of items important for iman, I was surprised to read “Fate”.
Can you please explain, how believing in fate is part of Iman? Does this means we all have pre determined lives? Is our destination (heaven or hell is) is pre-determined? If it is what is the point of Allah sending a Book of Guidance? If by fate you mean cause and effect, then that is another story!!
Thanks.
@Humair –
(aslamoaleakum wa rehmatullah he wa barakatahuu…) by Humair
Dear friend, where did you learn all this?
What is Asalamualeakum warahmatullah wa barakatuhuu?
Kindly stipulate the reference 🙂
ASARULISLAM’S COMMENT: Some are quite fixated on ‘proper rituals’ and sophisticating them, I guess.
Dear brother Mubashir,
You are quite right.
The Qur’an pronounces Five “Article of Faith”. It is a Mullah factory in India that added “Fate” as the sixth article in order for Islam to appear fatalistic and Muslims to behave accordingly.
2:177 Righteousness and exponential development of the ‘self’ depends not on whether you turn your faces to East or West. But righteousness is that:
One has conviction in God,
And the Last Day,
And the Angels,
And the Book,
And the Prophets.
[… then the verse continues with nice things to do.]
i can see the shining eyes radiating a life giving smile and i hear words that shall bring dawn of new hope for humanity! Only a brilliant mind can convey this because he follows the law of Nature!
I say such words for you! You are my inspiration!
J – what’s wrong with saying “asalamualeakum warahmatullah wa barakatuhuu?”.
I have seen you on other blogs/websites and you act like a bully. Always argumentative. Looking for confrontation. Keep repeating yourself by copy/paste from Koran only websites.
Please mend your ways. People will pay more attention to your postings if you change your ways.
Love & Peace,
Mohammed