various 'schools' of thought in Islam

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Re: various ‘schools’ of thought in Islam

@psyah

Also I would like to say I am not making things complicated by citing the Maturidi aqeedah … The purpose of this aqeedah was to establish what is within Islam and what is not … There are many differences within this fold where different groups give different rulings of the importance and rank of certain things - but what happened in the case of Barelviya vs Deobandiya was that they started to treat smaller differences as though they are “bigger” differences.

So the greater complexity comes from Barelvi and Deobandi beliefs not from the Maturidi belief - In fact there is Imam At-Tahawiyya whose book on aqeedah is so expansive that it allows so much diversity … but at the same time retains its purity away from Jahmiya, Mujasamiya, Mu’tazzilya, Khawarijiya, etc …

Ahl-us-Sunnah Wal-Jamaa’ is not a term coined by the Barelvis and they don’t have explicit claim over this despite the insistence of some of their members. One way to ascertain how much “jamaa’” there really is in any group’s interpretation is to see their position on difference of opinion. If there is no tolerance for even slight difference then that group resembles a “cult” … it is not in our system of belief to conclude that the majority of Muslims are kafir or deviant … If that happens to be the case based on the strictness of our belief then we know that something is wrong … Depending on where you draw your boundary line it needs to be such that it includes the majority whilst excluding the toxic beliefs … and to find those out is to look for internal consistency and evidence. Imam At-Tahawi did just that … If you want to say anything worthy of saying - you can indeed say that such and such school’s opinion is greater and better for x,y, z reason and so on and then treat each other like brothers.

There is nothing wrong in strictness, its right and wrong which is more important. And the lay people would be ripped to shreds by any interpretation of Islam. They often have been. One can become a cult by being too lax, or allowing your own to do certain things, terrorism for example. Actually the deobandis are good candidates for this, I have seen some of them include allegations of kufr and shirk for standard Sunni gatherings. Must have far reaching consequences on who they are

Actually deobandis and the salafis are the interpretations that tend to produce terrorism. All the nawasib are there with them…and all the things i can not recall right now