AmmAn messAge - The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre
AmmAn messAge - The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre
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frequently asked questions<br />
of traditional, orthodox Islam. <strong>The</strong> significance of this<br />
is: (1) that it is the first time in over a thousand years that<br />
the Ummah has formally and specifically come to such a<br />
pluralistic mutual inter-recognition; (2) that such a<br />
recognition is religiously legally binding on Muslims<br />
since the Prophet (may peace and blessings be upon<br />
him) said: My Ummah will not agree upon an error (Ibn<br />
Majah, Sunan, Kitab al-Fitan, Hadith no.4085), and (3)<br />
that it addresses one of the most critical problems facing<br />
Muslims today: lack of agreement about what<br />
constitutes Islam, and thus lack of agreement about<br />
who is a Muslim and what is truly ‘<strong>Islamic</strong>’.<br />
6. Is the content of theAmman Message<br />
something new in Islam?<br />
No. <strong>The</strong>re is nothing essentially new in the Amman Message,<br />
nor could there be for it to be truly authentic, for<br />
Islam is a religion revealed by God, and therefore not<br />
changeable by man.<strong>The</strong> Amman Message is merely a concrete<br />
restatement and crystallization of the common<br />
principles of traditional, orthodox, ‘moderate’ Islam—<br />
in all its traditional schools of thought and law—the<br />
Islam to which over the vast, overwhelming majority of<br />
the world’s approximately 1.4 billion Muslims belong.<br />
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