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

abuse, distortion, false accusations as a substitute to
argument.
I can understand, sympathize and participate in
exercises of Ijtihad that seek to reassess "human
understanding" of Islam. I have been advocating this for
over a decade. My website Ijtihad was launched in 1999. But
not to observe Islamic values after recognizing them as such
to me is a sin. I cannot for example in good conscience
approve of alcohol consumption by those who acknowledge
it as forbidden. To demand that I do so in order to remain a
member of the community is exactly the kind of oppression
that I thought we had come together to fight…"
We Conclude with the wise words of,
Imam al-Barbaharee:
"If you wish to be firm upon the truth and upon the
way of the Ahlus-Sunnah before you; beware of
theological rhetoric (Kalaam) and of disputation,
arguing, analogy and debating about the religion.
Listening to them, even if you do not accept from
them, throws doubts into the heart.
This is sufficient for you to be destroyed. There has
never been any heresy, innovation, innovated sect or
misguidance except through rhetoric, disputation,
argumentation and analogy. These are the gates of
innovation, doubt and heresy.'
[End quote from, ‘Explanation of the Creed’
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by Imam al-Barbaharee]