Why does one feel the need to interpret religion without any background? It’s common, I have done it, most of us have. We don’t go to a doctor and interpret medicine the way we want to.. Nor do we go to a lawyer and start teaching him law or go to an accountant and teach him about accounting. So why in the world do we feel we have the authority to interpret something that Allah has sent to us directly? It’s always “I think” when it comes to Islam, are we fooling ourselves?
Here I would add that we are forgetting how much of an important role scholars have - but we the “smart” folks can’t face this fact. These scholars know the religion, they know the rulings, they know the history. Yet we think we know better because we have access to the books. If scholarship was attained by relying on books only, we would all be scholars.
i m in agreement with ur first paragraph, seriously m so mad now a days, dont go anywhere else just browse here on GS, and aahhh i dono, it just simply breaks my heart.
First one brother says that alcohol is not haram cuz the word "haram" is not used for it (he doesn even know that the word haram is not even used for adultery, does it make adultery non haram?). and then this other brother says that in islam u can marry ur kids whenever they want even if they are toddlers, they just cant have sex till they hit the age of puberty, well come on dudee read Quran b4 passing ur own rulings.
and now coming to second paragraph, prolly m gona be hated here, but i cant support it 100%, to some extent it is true.
and now coming to second paragraph, prolly m gona be hated here, but i cant support it 100%, to some extent it is true.
Don't worry about what others think bro. The purpose of this forum is to get to know others' views. So come on share! I, you and others might learn something.
I do agree with you but partially, not completely.
I respect scholars and for that matters every learned person who is sincere with him self and his profession.
Most muslim follow the schollar of that particular school of thought in which they were born. Turning a blind eye to quranic injunction and reasoning.
'I think' without knowledge is fatal. ' I think' with the help of structured knowledge is essential. Structured knowledge of ISlam is quran ,and scholary work.
I find that scholary work contains important pointers and they are quite helpful.
some of ahl-e-sunnah scholars have explained concepts well and some shia scholars have done some nice research. Both parties did lousy job and misquided their follower due to political influence on their school of thought.
Unfortunatly, we can not sterilize scholary work of past from their respective historic political influences.
So, the door of further research is wide open to analyze various concepts without getting influenced for bad politics of the past.
First of all, most of the interpretations today are done using books translated in english. **Translation of a hadith or an ayah doesn't hold the same meaning as it would in arabic. **So their first fault lies here.
Secondly, Even if you know arabic you do not have the history of the language nor the how about of what the quran talks about.
I am fluent in english, but even though medical journals are written in english, does that mean I can understand what it says?
I have to disagree about political influences, as Imam Abu Hanifa r.a. was close to the time of the Sahabas as well as the Prophet pbuh.
Following Imam Abu Hanifa or other three schools of thoughts is one part of Islam, not islam itself, and many people dont understand that. They were the best in organizing islamic law, they were IMAMs of islamic law.
Just like Bukhari, Muslim were IMAMs of ahadiths. Just like there are 7 or 8 IMAMs of qirat! Similarily there are four imams of islamic law.
How do these dumbfounded people accept imams of ahadith (bukhari and muslim) but fail to accept imams of islamic law ? its idiotic!
Anyways, next time someone interprets religion by reading a hadith from bukhari and claiming to be a scholar, just ask him how many verses of the quran discuss ahkam?
out of almost 7000 verses, how many verses contain rulings for ahkam?
People don't even know the basics and they go on to make up religion for themselves.
I do agree with you but partially, not completely.
I respect scholars and for that matters every learned person who is sincere with him self and his profession.
Most muslim follow the schollar of that particular school of thought in which they were born. Turning a blind eye to quranic injunction and reasoning.
'I think' without knowledge is fatal. ' I think' with the help of structured knowledge is essential. Structured knowledge of ISlam is quran ,and scholary work.
I find that scholary work contains important pointers and they are quite helpful.
some of ahl-e-sunnah scholars have explained concepts well and some shia scholars have done some nice research. Both parties did lousy job and misquided their follower due to political influence on their school of thought.
Unfortunatly, we can not sterilize scholary work of past from their respective historic political influences.
So, the door of further research is wide open to analyze various concepts without getting influenced for bad politics of the past.
Very well said. The are other problems too those who follow one madhab and know something about it think that others who dare to confront them are all jahils and do not know anything about religion and they have no right to interpret religion.
Islam has not levied any restriction on interpretation of religion , it encourages many a times to ponder on Quran. You do not have to be a degree holder from a madarsa or Islamic University to interpret religion. To some religion is confined to a couple of old books of tafseer and books of hadees , it is haram and gunah to think beyond them . Anything and every thing has to be judged as per those tafaseer and books of ahadees which their Ulema recommend .
In this day and age how difficult it is to acquire deep , deep knowledge of religion ?
If someone got a degree from a reputed madarsa , but dared to challenge the old school they are labeled as stray and misguided.
Very well said. The are other problems too those who follow one madhab and know something about it think that others who dare to confront them are all jahils and do not know anything about religion and they have no right to interpret religion.
Islam has not levied any restriction on interpretation of religion , it encourages many a times to ponder on Quran. You do not have to be a degree holder from a madarsa or Islamic University to interpret religion. To some religion is confined to a couple of old books of tafseer and books of hadees , it is haram and gunah to think beyond them . Anything and every thing has to be judged as per those tafaseer and books of ahadees which their Ulema recommend .
In this day and age how difficult it is to acquire deep , deep knowledge of religion ?
If someone got a degree from a reputed madarsa , but dared to challenge the old school they are labeled as stray and misguided.
Ofcourse, doors of ijtihaad are still open. But I have yet to see anyone come forward to out do what the four Imams did (there were others, these are only top reputable ones who still have their works preserved by their students).
In this day and age, people think they know everything about Islam just because they read a few books. It's more then that, the challenge is still open, no one has come forward to out do what those Imams have done.
Trust me, it takes more then reading books to pass out verdicts on this religion.