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A in Presently (2008), the Progressive movement is in complete disarray and its main organization in the US has lost over 90% of its board members. It has lost support of most of the people that it claims to represent, primarily because the 'progressives' have nothing to offer the people beyond expressing disdain and aversion for the Islamic sharee'ah. The Muslims find the 'progressives' on the other side when their interests are discussed. For example, when Allah's Messenger r was unjustly ridiculed by the Danish cartoonists, the progressives were found justifying them and blaming Muslim reaction. When Muslims in Canada sought to refer to Islamic law to solve marital and inheritance disputes, the progressives strongly opposed it blaming the sharee'ah to be 'unfair to women'. Initially the Progressives did find common ground with extremist soofis, raafidah, ismailis and other groups that share the 'progressives' disdain for the Islamic sharee'ah, and who too base their religion upon feelings rather than the text - but later relations soured between them over political differences and group rivalry. The figureheads of the 'progressives' fiercely compete with each other in issuing anti-Islamic statements, and often accuse each - 59 -
other of being too-Muslim. Their internal bickering provides useful insights on the movement and its attitude towards Islamic teachings. For instance, Muqtedar Khan, despite his lewd attitude towards Islamic teachings and his far-fetched ideas on Ijtihaad, was forced to resign from the advisory board of the primary 'progressive' organization. He says in his resignation letter, "Lately I have found the environment with Progressive Muslims Union (PMU) extremely oppressive, abusive and hateful. I have found both PMU and *** extremely intolerant of difference and disagreement. This is the only Muslim group where people who believe in the teachings of the Quran are ridiculed and those who express ambivalence about it even about the existence of God are celebrated… My close interaction with PMU has taught me three things, (1) that clearly I am not sufficiently indifferent to the teachings of Quran and the traditions of the Islamic heritage to be a "good Progressive Muslim" (2) I was too gullible to believe in its empty claims of openness and tolerance for different perspectives and (3) I have also learned that I am completely opposite in nature to most of the members of PMU. For example I believe that a rational argument precedes the moral judgment. PMU is operating with a set of moral principles randomly acquired from Marxism and/or postmodern cultural trends and is treating them as absolutely moral truths, and are now looking for arguments [hopefully with some Islamic content] to justify them. PMU members unleash fanatical rage when this is questioned and resort to - 60 -
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A critical Analysis of the Modernis
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Imam al-Ghazzali's rejection of Phi
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Writing Hadeeth....................
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and perfect, and they are a group t
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media, likes to hear. They persist
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ecome the hallmark of the Modernist
Page 15 and 16: Mu'tazilah is the sect responsible
Page 17 and 18: 1. In Islam, knowledge is based upo
Page 19 and 20: Amongst the earliest of the socalle
Page 21 and 22: and sects that pursued it Before th
Page 23 and 24: ii) Adl (Justice), which to the Mu'
Page 25 and 26: An Important note on the harmony be
Page 27 and 28: for the of Mu'tazili Ideology a) Pr
Page 29 and 30: A testament of the great ordeals ca
Page 31 and 32: efore Allah the way I am standing b
Page 33 and 34: Makhlooq (a creation)." The man sai
Page 35 and 36: Hammad ibn Abi Haneefa related, "My
Page 37 and 38: narrated from him opinions which so
Page 39 and 40: Do you know what beneficial knowled
Page 41 and 42: “The Sahabah y needed to prove th
Page 43 and 44: Some of them even referred to previ
Page 45 and 46: Bible became quite popular in the P
Page 47 and 48: The call to transform Allah's Messe
Page 49 and 50: It is sufficient reply that Islam i
Page 51 and 52: Muhammad Abduh alleged that the Isl
Page 53 and 54: The modernists do not accept Ahaad
Page 55 and 56: Thus, we have seen how the Modernis
Page 57 and 58: Shaikh Bakr Abu Zaid (rahimahulah)
Page 59 and 60: The 'progressives' for most part fi
Page 61 and 62: disputed one. However, the 'progres
Page 63 and 64: The following quote from one of the
Page 65: (iii) Islam should not be equated w
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Page 71 and 72: Allah says in the Qur'aan, "O you w
Page 73 and 74: was conveyed to the Prophet r, he s
Page 75 and 76: Hadeeth-rejecters come in different
Page 77 and 78: of the hadeeth-rejecters Despite di
Page 79 and 80: Callers to evil as Like all dangero
Page 81 and 82: question beliefs and practices that
Page 83 and 84: 2. Allah's Messenger r received rev
Page 85 and 86: These are some proofs that show tha
Page 87 and 88: imposed on men the obligation to ob
Page 89 and 90: i) The Sunnah explains the commands
Page 91 and 92: If anyone commits a theft under suc
Page 93 and 94: al-Khabaaith (i.e. all evil), he re
Page 95 and 96: standing of a person beaten by Shay
Page 97 and 98: contained in the Sunnah is not prot
Page 99 and 100: Shaikhul-Islam Ibn Taymiyah explain
Page 101 and 102: of the Allah says, "He, it is Who,
Page 103 and 104: of the Like the Qur'aan, the saying
Page 105 and 106: References to writing the Hadeeth c
Page 107 and 108: He also demonstrated in his Ph.D. t
Page 109 and 110: Other books where the Ahadeeth are
Page 111 and 112: Thus, a Hadeeth consists of two mai
Page 113 and 114: Muhammad ibn Hatim ibn al- Mudhaffa
Page 115 and 116: 2. We have seen that memorization w
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Doubt 3: Does every narrator in the
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Doubt 4: Hadeeth collection and ver
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An Analysis of the of the Deducing
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v) What is more reliable to determi
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iv) In Parwez's view, the state has
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2. The mode of transmission describ
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Are Hadeeth-Rejectors The Munkareen
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They may be said to be the Group of
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Farahi demonstrated to all the west
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In Conclusion, we reflect on the wi
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On page, 356-57 he writes, "The fir
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Secondly: They are the best people
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Yahya ibn Ma'een was asked about Sa
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Hence none of the scholars accepted
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on. The skilled muhaddith will not
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