Renewal of the Contemporary Islamic message - Changeable and Unchangeable: Penal Code as a Model www.i-epistemology. net <http://www.i-epistemology.net/>
The importance of this discussion lies in the fact that it deals with the predetermined nature of the contemporary Islamic message. The Islamic civilization as well as the Muslim community by virtue of their formation in decades and epochs cannot prosper and flourish unless they represent and adopt a practical and real basis for their survival as well as for the mobility of their society and civilization. If it is the basic criterion for reawakening of the Muslim community (Ummah), revival of Islamic civilization and its reconstruction in today's changing and challenging world then the Muslim intellectuals, the theologians the scholars and those who have rational mind and operate the key of change and revivalism should not sleep unless they find out the reasons of the crisis the Muslim community is facing for rigid messages. They ought to welcome them in letter and spirit, adopt an active practical perspective for their self-satisfaction and enact them in their lives & progress of their societies. In the given situation, there has to be some disorders in the contemporary Islamic messages especially the stable ones and their reflection on the life of individuals and societies, as the community hesitates to follow most of them. If we realize the wrong happened to the universal vision of the community and their thinking, the pollution that infected their culture, their psyche and emotion due to the authoritative training and oppressive exercises we can realize the defacement happened to the contemporary Islamic messages that explain, to some extent, the condition of the community and their alarming sickness in various spheres of contemporary social life and practical exercises. With this discussion we are required to integrate civilization ascendancy universal Islamic vision with the systematic comprehensive method to look into one of the important stable Islamic law i.e. Islamic penal code. This would be a model to reformulate the contemporary Islamic messages in the light of Divine verses and the scientific understanding of the norms by the human beings. As it would be a model for the schools of Islamic legislation and its objectives which are responding to the present needs and paving the way for building a better human society. The discussion aims at the realization of the importance of the intellectual reform of the community. As it aims to invite the intellectuals and the Ulema to review the Islamic messages vis-a-vis their rigidity in method and the straight scientific style that can satisfy the wisdom, pacify the souls, respond to the natural calls of human beings and spread the best in them. There can never be a renaissance and awakening unless the vision, the concept, the method and messages are reformed and presented on the real practical scientific Islamic bases. The deterioration and marginalisation of the community will continue until the thinking of intellectuals and reformers reach to the level of reawakening and they are able to lead the civilization march. We beg Allah's help, appropriateness and guidance Dr. Abdul Hameed Ahmad Abu Sulaiman read the full article <http://www.i-epistemology.net/abdul-hamid-a-abu-sulayman/108-renewal-of\ -the-contemporary-islamic-message-changeable-and-unchangeable-penal-code\ -as-a-model.html>
