அத்தாவின் எழுத்துக்கள்
Saturday, 27 February 2021
அத்தாவின் எழுத்துக்கள் எது நியாயம் ?
Friday, 26 February 2021
குரான் 73:6 முஜ்ஜமில் "போர்த்திக்கொண்டு'....."
"நிச்சயமாக, இரவில் எழு(ந்திருந்து வணங்கு)வது (அகத்தையும் புறத்தையும்) ஒருங்கிணைக்க வல்லது. மேலும் வாக்கையும் செவ்வைப்படுத்த வல்லது"""
Wednesday, 24 February 2021
சொல் விளயாட்டு - மரமது மரத்திலேறி
சொல் விளையாட்டு
Monday, 22 February 2021
“Abstemious & facetious” all 5 vowels in order
What is common in the words:
Sunday, 21 February 2021
KSA
It would appear from recent reports that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince,
Mohammed bin Salman, is making good on his 2017 promise that he would return
the country to a moderate Islam and “eradicate promoters of extremist
thoughts.” Last month, The Washington Post disclosed that the kingdom had
started purging its textbooks of
anti-Semitic and misogynistic
content,
and this month Reuters revealed that four new laws — the personal status
law, the civil transactions law, the penal code of discretionary sanctions and
the law of evidence — are being finalised with the ultimate aim of codifying
the entire Muslim law in consonance with the principles of shariah and
best international practices. Saudi women have welcomed the move,
with lawyer Dimah Al-Sharif expressing the hope that it will empower both women
and society in general.
There can be no doubt that these reforms signal a major theological
shift, and if implemented successfully, will prove to be a watershed moment in
the history of Sunni Islam. The crown prince’s announcement is also a
courageous attempt to
break the state-ulema nexus that has been the cause of Muslim
intellectual and economic backwardness for centuries — a fact convincingly
exposed by scholar Ahmet T Kuru in his new book Islam, Authoritarianism and
Underdevelopment. It was this nexus that buttressed the post-Prophetic Muslim
expansionism started by Muawiya in 661 CE with the launch of the Umayyad
Caliphate.
Questionable traditions (hadiths) were fabricated in the name of the
Prophet to scripturally entrench the dynastic ambitions of the ruling family.
These hadiths otherised rival tribes and communities, and marginalised women.
Quran’s original Arabic text is free of misogyny =prejudice
against women =and does not encourage any kind of ethnically directed
hostility. In fact, it speaks of salvific inclusivity and shows respect for
non-Muslim places of worship (2:62, 5:69, 22:40), besides inviting
“people of the book” (an inclusive term for followers of all religions) to
coexist peacefully on the basis of commonalities in their value systems (3:64).
If Muslims find themselves estranged from this equalitarian message, it
is thanks to the havoc wrought over the centuries by exegetical
interpolations which relied on dubious hadiths to introduce sectarian ideas
into Quranic translations. For instance, an eschatological hadith in the
collection Sahih Muslim attributes an anti-Jewish comment to the Prophet. Yet
another hadith in Sahih Bukhari states that the Prophet considered women to be
intellectually deficient because “the evidence of two women is equal to the
witness of one man.”
The anti-Jewish statements attributed to the Prophet go against the
verses mentioned above, and the misogynist hadith is based on a complete
misunderstanding of the verse 2:282 which instructed Muslims of that period to
have their legal agreements witnessed by two men, and “if two men are not
available, then a man and two women witnesses of your choice so that if one of
them errs (an tazilla), the other can remind her (fatu zakkira).”
A careful reading of this verse would show that there is nothing in it
that alludes to the inferiority or the intellectual inadequacy of women. Thanks
to centuries of suppression, women of that period were not conversant with the
intricacies of business transactions. Islam sought to change this. Men were
asked to accord legal status to women by recognising their right to give
evidence which was so far denied to them.
The prescription that there may be two female witnesses in case a male
witness is not available, was, therefore, a convenience given to women. The
verse makes it clear that the second woman will come into play only if the
first one “errs” and if she does not, then the transaction will be concluded
with a male and a female witness.
This is proved by the fact that in three other contexts (4:15, 24:4,
& 65:2), the Quran speaks of witnesses in gender-neutral terms. Put
differently, the evidentiary stipulation mentioned in 2:282 was specific to
those times, and only for legal or financial transactions. It cannot be
generalised and made applicable in perpetuity to lower the intellectual or
legal status of women.
One hopes that the historic attempt by Saudi Arabia to theologically
defenestrate anti-Semitic and misogynist content, and codify the Muslim law in
line with the egalitarian principles of the Quran will go a long way in
restoring the Prophetic originality of Islam and influence Muslim societies
across the world to do the same.
This
article first appeared in the print edition on February 17, 2021 under the
title ‘A more equal faith’. The writer is an independent researcher and
the secretary-general of the Islamic Forum for the Promotion of Moderate
Thought
……..
Assalamu Alaikum
I have gone through the posting with due attention and given below are
my views to the best of my knowledge
My views are based on the following facts:
1, Like 2 sides of a coin Quran and Hadith are indispensable parts of
Quran
2. Almighty Himself undertakes safeguarding of Quran. So there can be no
dispute about the meaning of Quran verses
3. Unfortunately there is no such safety available for Hadith
4. Many “authenticated “ Hadiths have the effect of marring the image of
Islam , particularly of Prophet(PBUH)
5. Imam Malik – one of the 4 principal
imams and a very principled man – he was meted out with a punishment 70 lashes
for issuing a contrary to the wishes of governor of Medina
6.. Translation of Quran also at times lead to misunderstanding. For example, the Arabic word zawj
meaning spouse at many places is
shown as wife thereby giving a meaning that only men have a good life in
Paradise and not women
In view of the above, it is to be concluded that whatever reforms Prince
of KSA plans are according to Shariat
Who else can have a better understanding of Quran than native Arabs?
Above views are my own based on my limited knowledge. If there be any
mistake the most gracious Almighty will forgive me
Vassalam
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