Modernists And Hadith Rejecters by Sajid A. Kayum

disputed one. However, the 'progressives' promote strange/heretical
opinions in order to term agreed upon matters as disputed; then insist
upon following the peculiar opinion over the traditional view. They
seek after and promote strange and mistaken opinions of past
scholars, or accept the views of outright deviants and heretics when it
suites them.
As is evident, the 'progressives' mimic closely the Christianmodernist
idea that scriptural guidelines are relative truth and not
absolute. What they overlook is that unlike Christianity, Islamic texts
as well as their preliminary interpretation by the Prophet r and his
companions are preserved and available today such that one can refer
back to them in order to determine the original state of affairs, and
distinguish between what are religious injunctions and what are
cultural practices.
The 'progressives' seek to make Islam more humane by
removing practices from it that are not part of Islam in the first place,
like forced marriages and honor killings. By this, they have exposed
their ignorance and prejudice towards Islam to be on par with that of
the western media that they cater to.
The 'progressives' may be ardent claimants to independent
thinking, but in reality it is nothing but the age-old disease of
philosophy in a new garb. Hence we find them seeking guidance from
the works of Ibn Sina and Ibn Rushd. They also have
extremely distorted views about the concept of
'Ijtihaad' and when Islamic scholars resort to
Ijtihad to deduce rulings.
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