Ijtihad, Rethinking Islam *Friday, Jun 19 2009* Maududi’s Children: How the intellectuality of Political Islam turned into the brutality of faithful fascism <http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1474>
Though no Pakistani has been flogged for the offence of consuming and selling alcohol ever since 1981, the Shariat Court’s verdict must have come as a blow to the architects of Zia’s Islamisation process that was largely based on Maududi’s politico-religious thesis of an ‘Islamic state.’ A state whose blueprint, many Islamic scholars opposed to Maududi-ism maintain, does not exist in the Qu’ran and is only a generation of Maududi’s imagination. *Waiting for reason *There are a number of progressive Muslim scholars, especially in Turkey, Egypt, Malaysia, Algeria and Indonesia, who seem to be making deeper inroads in the 21st century Islamic reformist psyche. In Pakistan *Javed Ahmed Ghamdi*, the London-based *Ziauddin Sardar* and respected intellectual, *Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy* can be named. In their work on Islam they have taken a scientific and a strictly academic approach, and are not immune to openly question the historicity of the Laws of Islam that have been handed down to us from the 8th century onwards; or a history and versions of the Shariah that started to appear almost two centuries after the demise of the Prophet. To them the Muslims need to have an interpretative relationship with the Holy text. According to Sardar, for example, we have been relying on an age-old interpretation of the Qu’ran, one that is ice-capped in history. The context of this interpretation is of the 8th and 9th century Muslim societies. *It needs to be radically updated through ijtihad.* -- *Nadeem F. Paracha* 5 Comments More...<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1474> Islamic Society *God knows when we will be rid of Sood and Mehsud! <http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1484>* *By Dr. Aamir Liaquat Hassan*, the Daily Jang, Islamabad More...<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1484> Islamic Ideology *Saudi Fatwa of kufr against the Shi'a Ulama and Maraja' <http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1483>* The leader of the congregation at the Grand Mosque (Masjid-ul-Haraam) in Makkah, Mr. Adel al-Kalbani shocked even his interviewer on BBC TV in May 2009 when he declared that all the ‘ulama (religious scholars) of the Shi‘as are “kuffar” (non-believers) . This is not the first, and certainly, it will not be the last outburst by the clerics of the Wahhabi sect, expressing their blind hatred against the Shi‘as of Ahl-ul-Bayt (sacred family of the Prophet), despite the fact that many Shi‘a pilgrims innocently pray behind them the obligatory congregational prayers. -- *M. Abdullah*** More...<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1483> Radical Islamism & Jihad *Save history from terrorists <http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1482>* What is lost in terrorist attacks is much more than life. Driven by single-minded hatred towards all things they either don't know of, understand, or those that don't fit into the Pashto-centric world view, terrorists have destroyed chunks of history and today are dangerously threatening more. After the Taliban destroyed the Bamiyan Buddhas in central Afghanistan because boss Mullah Omar had decreed all depiction in stone or paper of human and animal forms un-Islamic, the phrase archaeological terrorism was coined by scholars who had watched the carnage unfold. The world watched with horror as the Taliban destroyed ancient sculptures in Afghanistan. The response was a helpless, collective gasp as explosives, tanks and anti-aircraft weapons blew apart two colossal images of the Buddha in Bamiyan, 230 km from the Afghan capital Kabul. Today, the same danger looms over Pakistan, which contains sites from the Indus Valley civilisation. -- *Ranjan Roy* 1 Comments More.<http://www.newageislam.org/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1482> - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Dear Friends Check your inbox daily + delete your junk emails & keep your inbox empty! Its a friendly Request for all of my group members. ----------------------------------------------------- For More Information: Contact Us : M'E-Sagari Group Network Email: [email protected] : [email protected] Cell : +92- 333 - 82 666 08 ----------------------------------------------------- ...........|""""""""""""""""""""""""|\|_ ...........|........Hot Paki.........|||"|""\___ ...........|__________________|||_|___|) ...........!(@)'(@)""""**!(@)(@)***!(@)'' -~*´¨¯¨`*•~-.¸,.-~*´¨¯¨`*•~-.¸,.-~*´¨¯¨`*• Visite: www.hotpaki.net.ms Subscribe mail to: [email protected] send your comments and mail : [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
