Adnan replied on Sunday, August 11, 2013 02:52 PM
Dear UAE2, on your second post criticizing my religious beliefs, for your information, I have read the quran in Urdu and English, many times, unlike most of our Muslim brothers, and I have read Bukhari hadith many times, and I have read Islamic history many times, does that make a scholar capable enough to interpret quranic jurisprudence in light of the complex world economic system. You see the problem with today's Islam is that it has been interpreted by people who have only read religious text but have no idea about medicine, astronomy, science, finance, biology, physics, chemistry, etc. That is why we are led to believe that development of humankind is evil, however, the Quran clearly states at many places about the Allah's signs in stars, skies, earth, water, oceans, human body, etc.
If Allah has clearly instructed us to do Ijma which is basic democracy, why would we only ask the clergy to do this ijma for us. Why wont we make a committee including the clergy of course, but also chartered accountants, politicians, scientists, agriculturists, doctors, engineers, people from all walks of life, to interpret the religion for us. Allah says in the Quran, "we have placed signs in the stars for you, so is there anyone who would seek". Does this ayat not point out clearly that Allah wants us to be astronomers, is it not a clear cut instruction that astronomers have a role to play in religion. So why follow interpretations from the clergy only, that is why Muslims today have such extreme views. We would consider the word of a mulla as the word of God and follow blindly without any consideration. I respect your desire to stay away from riba, and all of us must do that. All I am saying is that Islamic banking does not really eliminate interest at all, it only rephrases the term. |
