Touching the Qur'aan without Wudoo (ablution)

[psyah]

Re: Touching the Qur’aan without Wudoo (ablution)

@BigdaNawab

So far the simplest and essentially the wisest response on this thread is from @**geminifromkhi . **I think she says is better: when Wudhu is so simple and convenient, one might as well do it. And I still disagree that the wudhu precondition should be so strict that it discourages approaching Quran.

@Psyah thank you so much for patiently explaining things. I understand that line of thought better now and I do not disagree with anyone’s approach exclusively because they are all an inquiry into the truth. And my basic thought is that there is more…
just like I may be defined as a man…then a man of specific age…man of some title, wealth..or a king who may also be a scholar and a craftsmen, a painter , muscician an artist, etc for example. I am still a man, but there is more. And my personal understanding of the Quran stems from various studies of Imaam Gazali’s work, Ibn Taymiya, Mohammed Allama Iqbal, etc. But, maybe we’ll have to discuss them somewhere else…

but i personally hesitate to blindly rely on other thinkers work and forego my own understanding assuming that work has simply been done by infallables and completed to perfection before us. I cant raise any man or work of man to that status. ITs not the Islam that Quran delivered to me. My personal inquiry should lead me to gather all scholarly sources but the endevour has to be exclusively my own intellect. God (Creator) in Surah Alaq, clearly demands this personal duty upon me thereby making me identify among the Ashraful Makhlooqat (Highly Potent Creation). Only scholars or men with titles are not Highly Potent Creation, you and I are too and must also exercise the potent inquiry, not passive intellectual servitude. Imaam Ghazali in his works Munqid Minul Dalal meticulously explains this, so does Allama Iqbal in Reconstruction of Islamic Thought.

Hur ek muqaam se aagey muqaam hai tera
Guzr ja aql se aagey k yeh jo noor hai
chiraag-e-raah hai, mazil nahiin…

Peace BigdaNawab

Thank you for this … I understand your feelings and frustrations. However, also take this in to consideration that Islam does not favour the intellect. It is driven by sincerity - or else it could be argued that God gives intellectuals unfair advantages. We are supposed to reason where we can - yes. However, those of lower intellects are absolved of any consequence - it is enough for them to see good character in others and select them as their leaders and guides.

But if we have an intellectual ability then we should not take short cuts - we should not hot wire the traditions through a sense of raising our own intellects higher than those traditions - but constantly improve our understandings constantly questioning whether we have truly understood the matter like those who understood it before us.

Giving our own abilities importance in this matter is another form of subtle arrogance.