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Title: The Authority of Al-Quraan Post by: Zainab_M on September 06, 2007, 04:20:22 am BismEm
The following is the preface written by K.A. Shehzada on his works regarding the clarification of a number of misconceptions that the Muslims nurture today concerning the Quraan. Each misconception and its clarification will be posted separately, InshAllah. By Kashif Ahmed Shehzada In this work, I have explained the various misapprehensions concerning the Qur’an which are prevailing among those who identify themselves as Muslims and consequently, their rectification by Qur’anic evidence. The fundamental reason for the origination of these misconceptions is that in the present age, the Muslims have themselves given up the divinely imposed duty of intellectual analysis of the Book of Allah and instead have become blind followers of the teachings of the sect in which they are born into and consider whatever the Clergy feeds them, to be the absolute truth, without verifying whether or not the faith they have inherited or have been tutored to accept has been sanctioned by the Book of Allah. Such misconceptions, which are accepted by the majority, and patronized by vested interests, not only transformed the vigorous activity generated by the Qur’anic teachings into passivity, it rather changed the entire outlook of the life of Muslims. The passive Islam predominant in the Muslim world today is poles apart from the dynamic Islam presented by the Qur’an. Belief in one God has been replaced by belief in a number of gods. The concept of sovereignty of Allah in human affairs has been changed to the concept of sovereignty of the people or the sovereignty of individual human beings. As a result the Centralization of the Ummah has been lost, and the Muslim world is divided into numerous sects and parties. Instead of subservience to Allah, the Muslims today are subservient to man-made conjecture, Clergymen, and all sorts of Economic and Political exploiters. The mission of the messenger of Allah was to release humanity from the heavy burdens and the fetters that were upon them (7:157), and he demonstrated this by implementing the divine values decreed in the Book of Allah. But the enemies of Islam hatched up concepts and doctrines and injected them among the Muslims which resulted in completely defacing the ‘Deen’ brought by the messenger and instead replaced it with man-made Religion, and where ever the Muslims enjoyed power, it got separated into ‘Church and State’. As a result of these misconceptions, which are basically injected by the enemies of Islam in the name of Islam itself, the Muslims of today are groaning under the pressure of the same weights and are bound by the same shackles from which the messenger (p) came to release them. The ‘Pharaohs’ or the Political exploiters, the ‘Hamans’ or the Religious and intellectual exploiters and the ‘Qaroons’ the Economic exploiters are again rampant as much in the Muslim countries as in any other part of the world. Instead of one central organization and one code of life given by the Qur’an, there are hundred and one ways of life which have made the Muslim Ummah, now divided into nations on territorial basis, fall steep into a state of fear and dependency. They struggle to get out of it, but without the guiding light of the Qur’an, fail to do so. The people who were to be witnesses over the deeds of mankind, were to be the guarantors of world peace and were supposed to be the torch bearers of civilization, science and technological progress are themselves in a position of ignominy and helplessness. The only hope of their escape from their present day plight lies in the reunion into a stable and well knit Ummah and this objective cannot be achieved unless there is a conviction that the Qur’an has the final authority for all matters of Islam and is the complete, immutable and only message of Allah that exists on the face of the earth. The day the Muslim world realizes the Authority of the Book of Allah, and become consciously aware of its teachings, then that day would be the beginning of Islamic Renaissance. . This work is aimed at the realization of that Authority. Title: Re: The Authority of Al-Quraan Post by: Heba E. Husseyn on September 07, 2007, 04:46:58 am Superb! Do hope to read the misconceptions & clarifications ..
Title: Re: The Authority of Al-Quraan Post by: N. Truth Seeker on September 07, 2007, 05:29:23 am Couldn't agree more with KAS. I too look forward to reading more from KAS .. |