A critical analysis of the Modernists and the Hadeeth ... - Islam House

understand that Islam has
nothing to fear from reason
and so to open their hearts and
minds to rational thought…
Islamic reformation can be
understood in two different ways. It
can mean the reform of society to bring it
back to what have been considered Islamic norms and
values: most Islamic and Islamist reformers are
pursuing this type of reform. The other reform strategy
is to question the existing understanding of Islam and
seek to articulate a reformed understanding of Islam:
this is where Islamic modernists and rationalists have
always plied their trade. Here, Ijtihad is employed as an
instrument to critique prevalent understanding and
articulate a more compassionate, more modern and
perhaps even a more liberal understanding.”
Comments:
As we can see…
(i) Ijtihad is falsely given a definition similar to philosophy - "quest
for truth through… rationalism, human experience, critical
thinking."
[Two Theories of Ijtihad]
(ii) Muslims are asked to follow the deviant ways of the
philosophers that confused and misguided even someone as
pious and knowledgeable as Imam Al-Ghazzali.
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