Tuesday 29 October 2013

[ModerateMuslims] Aurangzeb Khan: Interpretation key to better life

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For information please.
 
From: trueislamss@live.ca
To: ModerateMuslims@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 18:50:46 -0400
Subject: FW: [ModerateMuslims] Aurangzeb Khan: Interpretation key to better life

 
For information please. There is an urgent need to upgrade the role of our Masajid and Madrerssahs and instead of promoting Mullahism and extremism, they should promote knowledge and understanding of the Quran as a complete way of life. The Madressahs should be upgraded to schools and all academic subjects along with Quran should be taught and its Guidance explained to the students to make them better and moderate generation well equipped with Quranic knowledge to avoid all misguidance, exploitation, extremism, excesses in rituals, Shirk, Bidah, un Islamic customs and practices etc. Islam promotes education and knowledge and not theology alone to turn out Mullah generation. Thanks.   
 
From: umah.hai@hotmail.com
To: ModerateMuslims@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:02:10 -0700
Subject: [ModerateMuslims] Aurangzeb Khan: Interpretation key to better life

 
We have literal interpretation. allegorical and also interpretation in relation to the times, situation and conditions
of our ummah in 6th & 7th century.

Now we are living in 21st century............the whole has changed drastically.  The people are joined together on various
levels:

1) Economically
2) Technologically
3) politically
4) Globally

Our world has seen thousands of times more scientific inventions that has effect the life of global communities
on un-imaginable levels.

THAT IS WHY WHEN I READ THE QURAN.  I WANT TO SEE IT AS A MEMBER OF GLOBAL COMMUNITY WHO 
IS BORN BY CHANCE OF BIRTH AS A MUSLIM.  I HAD NO CHOICE.  THIS SAME STANDARDS APPLY TO EVERY
HINDU, BUDDHIST, CHRISTIAN, JEW, ETC. 

EVERY COMMUNITY HAS BROUGHT REFORMS IN THEIR THINKING EXCEPT MUSLIMS.  OUR MINDS ARE ANCHORED
IN 6TH AND 7TH CENTURY ARABIA.  

WE NEED TO THINK AS MEMBERS OF GLOBAL COMMUNITY AND BRING OUT THE INTERPRETATION ACCORDING 
TO THE REQUIREMENTS, NEEDS AND TIMES SO THAT WE CAN LIVE IN PEACE AND HARMONY PROTECTING LIFE
AND PROPERTY OF EVERY INDIVIDUAL.

OUR MULLAH DO NOT SEE IT THIS WAY................ALL OF US COMMON PEOPLE WITH COMMON SENSE COULD.

Iftekhar Hai, President
UMA Interfaith Alliance
www.umaia.net


CC: ModerateMuslims@yahoogroups.com; umah.hai@hotmail.com
From: axk1023@sbcglobal.net
Subject: Re: [ModerateMuslims] (unknown)
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 21:56:21 -0500
To: ModerateMuslims@yahoogroups.com

Do you take every word of your doctor as divine?  How about your professor, assuming that you had one? 

We Muslims accept the evidence from scholars and question them if not clear. After that, it is no more their own word. They only explain and show what God has ordered. 

Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 11, 2013, at 9:58 PM, Iftekhar Hai <umah.hai@hotmail.com> wrote:

 

I would just like to correct what is written below as, "Extremist or Radical Teaching" of Quran and Islamic history
being responsible for our intellectual downfall.

Number one priority even today among radical/extremist Muslims who literally take every word of Islamic scholar
as divine ................. is the real cause of suffocation of scientific and and technological base.

All Islamic scholars who lived in the past 1,000 years with exception of few concentrated the divine word of 
Quran in:

1) Memorization
2) Correct pronunciation and
3) Recitation

Never were attempts made to interpret the Quranic laws in the light of 21st centuries challenges of Muslim
world in a global village.

As a result for this kind of thinking we build more mosques than schools or colleges or universities of higher
secular and scientific knowledge. 

Iftekhar Hai, President
UMA Interfaith Alliance
www.umaia.net


Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 10:23:17 -0700
From: hasniessa@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Radical Muslims is cause of problem....see video
To: umah.hai@hotmail.com
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Iftekhar bhai,
 
Thought this article might be of some relevance
to what you wrote.
 
Hasni 
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The gods that failed

The Islamists are exploiting a vacuum

     
SINCE September 11th, discussions about Islam have abounded with phrases such as "political Islam", "Islamic fundamentalism", "Islamism", "radical Islam" and so forth. Almost nobody agrees with anybody else about what these terms mean or how they overlap. The body of ideas associated with Sayyid Qutb—the notion that man has only one choice to make, between jahiliyya or submission to the law of Allah in its entirety—is only one, extreme, form of Islamic fundamentalism. And fundamentalism is only one part of the bigger category of "Islamism" or "political Islam".
 
In one recent book, an American academic, Noah Feldman, calls Islamism "a comprehensive political, spiritual and personal world-view defined in opposition to all that is non-Islamic." In another, a former CIA official, Graham Fuller, argues that an Islamist is "one who believes that Islam as a body of faith has something important to say about how politics and society should be ordered in the contemporary Muslim world and who seeks to implement this idea in some fashion". A French scholar, Olivier Roy, prefers a narrower definition: political Islam is the attempt to create an Islamic state.
 
Whatever the definition (and there are plenty more to choose from), the main point of interest here is the growing tendency in the Islamic world for Muslims to turn to religion as a solution or part-solution to political problems. Muslims are not alone in this. Many Americans (and Indians, and Israelis) believe that Christianity (and Hinduism, and Judaism) have something important to say about how politics and society should be ordered. But the extent of the support for political Islam sets it apart. One reason, argues Bernard Lewis of Princeton University, one of Islam's foremost (and controversial) interpreters in the West, is simply that most Muslim countries are still profoundly Muslim, in a way that most Christian countries are no longer Christian. But why?
 
The devout Muslim might answer that Islam is just a more successful religion than its competitors. It is indeed the world's fastest-growing religion. But another possible answer—or maybe just a less positive way of saying the same thing—is that in the Muslim world the values that compete with religion have been less successful than they have in the West. And the difficulty for the Muslim world is that a lot of these values—democracy, liberalism, "modernity" in general—are values to which many Muslims themselves say they aspire. If growing numbers of Muslims are nowadays looking to God for answers to their social, political and economic problems, it may be because other gods have failed them.
 
Since colonial rule, most Muslim countries have found it difficult to create successful democracies. Few joined the spurt of democratisation that followed the cold war. Only one out of five countries with a Muslim majority is a democracy. In some places—Malaysia, Indonesia, Turkey, Bangladesh—democracy has made bigger strides than in others. But the overall picture is bleak. Indonesia has only recently emerged from the long years of dictatorship under Sukarno and Suharto; Pakistan, though it has bits and pieces of democracy, is run by a military dictator; Iran is poised between revolution and counter-revolution. Over the past quarter-century, says the Brookings Institution, GDP per person in most Islamic states has fallen or remained the same.
 
Islam's Arab core, which contains fewer than one in five of the world's Muslims but produces a disproportionate share of its terrorists, is in a particular mess. The social contract once made possible by energy riches—you put up with autocracy and we will see to your material needs—has collapsed with the falling oil price and a rising population. In July last year, Arabs were shocked by the findings of a report from a panel of academics for the United Nations Development Programme, spelling out the full extent of this failure. For 20 years, said the UNDP, growth in income per head in the 22 Arab countries has been lower, at an annual 0.5%, than anywhere else in the world except sub-Saharan Africa. One in five Arabs still lives on less than $2 a day. Around 12m people, or 15% of the workforce, are already unemployed, and on present trends the number could rise to 25m by 2010.
 
The UNDP blamed these failures not on a lack of resources but on the survival of absolute autocracies, the holding of bogus elections, confusion between the executive and the judiciary, constraints on the media, and a patriarchal and intolerant social environment. The 280m Arabs spend a higher percentage of GDP on education than any other developing region, and yet some 65m adults are illiterate and about 10m children still have no schooling at all. There is little Arab writing, or translation from other languages: in the 1,000 years since the Caliph Mamoun, noted the authors, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in a single year.

Problem or solution?

Is Islam one of the causes of this pattern of failure? To a lot of Muslims, the question is upside down. Political Islam, or "Islamism", starts from the opposite proposition: that the failures of the Muslim world are caused by having neglected Islam, not by having embraced it. "Islam is the solution," say many Islamist political parties. The appeal of this simple slogan is greatly enhanced by the belief of so many Muslims that other answers have already been tried, and found wanting.
 
In the Arab world, some countries, such as Morocco, Jordan and the Gulf states, have clung on to semi-feudal forms of government. But the dominant tried-and-wanting answer following colonialism was pan-Arab nationalism, a socialist doctrine combined with the idea of uniting the Arab-speaking peoples in a single state. The theoreticians of this secular creed argued that the colonial powers had deliberately enfeebled the Arabs by chopping what should have been one nation into small and artificial states. "The Arabs", says the constitution of the Baath Party, "form one nation. This nation has a natural right to live in a single state."
 
For a while, helped along by the charisma of Nasser, Arab nationalism galvanised the masses and gave the Arabs a new self-confidence. But in the end, it failed. Attempts to combine the artificial post-colonial states fizzled out. Arab nationalism also failed to defeat Israel—not even Nasser's charisma survived the humiliation of 1967's six-day war—or to develop proper democratic institutions, or to win and hold the people's loyalty. By the end of the 20th century, writes Adeed Dawisha, the author of a splendid recent obituary of the movement, little remained but "the debris of broken promises and shattered hopes." This is the debris into which political Islam is sinking its roots. The next section looks at two countries to show how.
 
 
From: Iftekhar Hai <umah.hai@hotmail.com>




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