VICTIMS OF MISUSE 
Part 1.cont...

When religious men are overwhelmed by their ones spirit of knowledge, they allow themselves to be used as a tool for the falsification of facts. In this manner, they take advantage of their guise as men of religion. The example employed by the Quran in relation to the people of earlier revelations is well known to us today. They impose on the verses and statements of their own revelations arbitrary interprsetations and conclusions, claiming that these represent the precise meaning intended and that, as such, they constitute God's message.

In actual fact, however, their conclusions are in sharp conflict with the very essence of Divine faith. They are able to achieve this contortion because the majority of people cannot differentiate between the true essence of faith and the true meaning of these statements on the one hand, and the fabricated conclusions they arbitrarily impose on these same statements on the other.

We are today well aware of such people who are wrongly described as religious. Indeed, they are religious professionals who look upon religion as a profession and who use it in order to satisfy all sorts of prejudice. They do not hesitate to make use of any religious text when it seems to them that by so doing they serve their own material interests. It does not concern them that their arbitrary interpretations of God's revelations contradict the basic principles of faith. They try hard to detect even the slightest hint of linguistic ambiguity in a Quranic verse so that they can endorse any desire, tendency or prejudice which serves their immediate interests.

This sort of selfish drive is not exclusive to the people of earlier revelations. It is evident in every nation where religious faith has been greatly devalued as a result of the relentless pursuit of trifling worldly gains. It gains currency in any nation where people are so dishonest that they do not hesitate to deliberately and knowingly tell a lie about God and distort His words in order to win favours and satisfy their own perverted desires.

Here God warns the Muslim community against falling into this slippery way; a path on which the Children of Israel fell and which led them to be deprived of what they had been entrusted with, namely the leadership of mankind. How are they not victims of misuse?

Check what Allah says;

Al-Imran (The House of Imran) - 
Chapter 3: Verse 78

"There are some among them who twist their tongues when quoting the Scriptures, so that you may think that [what they say] is from the Scriptures, when it is not from the Scriptures. They say: ‘It is from God”, when it is not from God. Thus, they deliberately say of God what they know to be a lie."

To be continued...

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Kindly check Tafseer Ibn Kathir for further clarification about the verse above.

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"In The Shade of The Quran"
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VICTIMS OF MISUSE 
Part 1

It is surprising (but not so much really) to find how many Muslims are being brain washed to extremism in our communities and dispatched to spread ideologically distructive messages to young and clear headed Muslims as well as causing confusion for mature Muslims in the path. Even though they the manner of dressing of the ahlu-sunnah is the same which was used as their shade but how can we compare their ways and dawah with that of the ahlu-sunnah. Their propagated messages were directed towards many issues in Islam but the one of utmost concern in this post is what our women in Islam have been subjected to.The more pathetic situation is how we find fuqaha and thinkers who are so ready to promote ijtihad and social and political reform literally come to a deadlock when the issue of women in Muslim-majority countries and in other Muslim communities is brought up. This seems to be forbidden territory, where not only are the texts sacred, but also are the cultural traditions and habits, which cannot be questioned. Yet the problems are deep, complex, and reveal many failings both within families and in the way fiqh is thought and transmitted in our time.  Beyond those clear stands that must be taken - and are slowly beginning to be discussed - about the prohibition of forced marriages, domestic violence, or genital mutilation, for instance, it is important to look into daily realities and decree the law coherently in the light of the message's higher objectives. Making marriage, divorce, and polygamy so easy for men (unlike women) and moreover repeating bluntly that inheritance rules are based on final, incontrovertible (qatiyyah) verses maintains a state of blindness that makes it impossible to solve problems. Men increasingly take advantage of religion to justify their shortcomings and supposed privileges, while women are victims of the misuse of a religion whose essence was to liberate them. Choosing a husband, seeking divorce, refusing polygamy, studying, or working are rights granted to women in the texts themselves. It may be necessary, in different social contexts, to insist on those rights, because abuse and hypocrisy are becoming so frequent and unacceptable, consenting silence. Goals and rules must then be repeated, and in the name of the former, one should dare suggest new solutions to the latter's implementation. To be continued... Recommendation: Kindly lay your hands on the Book: "Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation" By - Tariq Ramadan.

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