Re: The Implications of considering Quran the Creator or Created (khaliq or makhlooq)
diwana:
But this point is not even the argument.
This is what I was thinking.
If Quran was revealed for a specific time and is not eternal (per Mutazili), then Quranic laws may be interpreted differently by people from other eras; based on what logic of that time says.
This means that a ruling or fatwa made hundreds of years ago by the four imams may be changed today by scholars of present day. Thus doors of ijtehad are not closed, and **rules of shariah **can be interpreted differently today based on logic and reasoning of present day.
The title of the book I mentioned earlier talks about “Intellectual suicide” of closed Muslim mind. Per my understanding, what he means by ‘intellectual suicide’ is the removal of reasoning in interpreting the laws of religion, resulting in religion becoming stagnant and incapable of being dynamic.