Ok now i need some help…
Many people when asked questions to do with Islam try to rationalise every answer…in the West it is natural to bring up reasons for Allahs hukm rather than being satisfied with the fact that it is simply Allahs hukm…so you have the MCB defending halal meat by saying it isnt barbaric…for me it doesnt matter if it is or isnt at the end of the day it’s Allahs hukm…
Certain things make no rational sense to me…things like concubines…wudu doesnt actually make you clean…why 3 rakhat maghrib and not 4 for instance but whether an individual hukm makes sense or not is irrelevant becuase by taking shahadah i have acknowledged everything in the Quran to be Allahs word and therefore free of scrutiny…
But for sake of argument cos we live in an era where people have a reason for everything…Can you provide examples where Allah provides no Illah(reason) for the action but simply states the action and also provide examples where Illah is used…
Jazakallah khairun…
Re: Rationalising the Deen...
^ I believe that some things are jsut common sense (why use lota, halal meat is cleaner etc), ritual (wudu), and just matter of faith..
Re: Rationalising the Deen...
deen is a way of living a code to livbe the life by.
tough luck to those who feel that deen is keeping them back.
no. the deen in fact is making you strong.
it of course depends, where you learn about your 'deen'.
universal purpose of human life is to thrive on this earth in humility and remember brother hood and then the after life comes.
so, that is rather short and simple.
humans are perhaps, restless and so they are unable to accept 'deen' as a way of living.
& that is where i feel hat individual accountability is far better than collective pretence of the deenhood.
Re: Rationalising the Deen...
Rationalisation of all the unrational things is the human nature.
Re: Rationalising the Deen...
Depends... if I say that God could not have ordained irrational requirements, and that Islam is not a "leap of Faith", suddenly people think I am being irrational :)
In my opinion, if you feel something is irrational in Islam, there is a fair chance it is man-made.
eg: slaughtering of goats/camels/cows on a particular day such as eid-ul-baqar just for the sake of copying someone's alleged act, staying awake all night of 27th of Ramadhan whereas the thing that made (not makes) that night special was (not is) the revelation of the Quran, halal food meaning food that was bought from a halal/zabeeha store, ritual prayer, talaq exclaimed 3 times by an unmarried person resulting in (believe it or not) "preemptive" divorce, and so on...
And BTW, I do not mean that Islam is irrational...