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Those leaders are dead right now and have became fertilizer
So what if they are bodily dead ?? Their ideas, works and legacy is not dead.
Or do you prefer accepting the ideas of any nonsense person just because he or she is alive ??
Going by your logic you should not be believing in Islam because the Messenger of Islam is dead.
We are supposed to follow Quran and Sunnah that is to remain here till the end of times
What are you thoughts on the Pakistani dog breed Bully Kutta ??
Indian muslims can look and wear whatever they want to. You have no right telling them what they should wear and look like
I have every right doing so. I see myself contributing to positive guidance of the Indian Muslims in a few years.
Islam asks women to cover themselves and that can be done with anything including Burqa
Covering up is not the same as wearing the extra, oppressive cloak called the burqa. The normal clothes are sufficient.
Read this. It quotes the Quran :
Most of the translators, obviously influenced by the hadith translate the word as VEIL and thus mislead people into believing that this verse is advocating the covering of the head and hair, some even go to the extent of claiming that 24:31 implies the covering of the face! But the truth is that the word khimaar simply means a cover, any cover is called khimaar in Arabic. The derivative word khamrah, which means intoxicants, is so called because it covers the brain.
In 24:31, God is telling the women to use their cover (khimaar, being a dress, a coat, a shawl, a shirt, a blouse, a tie, a scarf . . . etc.) to cover their bosoms, not their heads, face or hair. If God willed to order the women to cover their heads, face or hair, He would have simply said, “Cover your head, face and hair.” God is neither vague nor forgetful! God does not run out of words. He does not wait for, nor need a scholar to apply the correct words for Him! God confirms that the Quran is complete and fully detailed (6:114/5).
I can find other such references but this will do.It is a crime that so many men who have coaxed, or pressured, or demanded that their women wear the burqa, or that their daughters wear a hijab prematurely, are most probably unable or unwilling to read the Quran and uphold its tenants, being totally dependent on the interpretations incorrectly preached to them by immoderate clerics and cultural exhortations not based on pure religion. The problem with so many clerics in powerful positions within many Islamic communities around the globe, is that these religious leaders do not allow for intellectual freedom, or personal interpretation when it comes to matters of self assessed modesty and female dressing because of the narrowness in which they view women’s supposedly intemperate sexuality and the lack of self-control in men.
You should stop listening to misguided people like Tariq Jameel who have anti-intellectual, regressive, non-scientific and non-Islamic ideas.
This lady is nobody first of all. Not a religoous authority in any manner
To reply to the red text first, Gaddafi was the imam of all Muslims, according to me and a few others. His understanding of Islam was different and evolved than your Tariq Jameel types.
As for the woman in question, Amna Nosseir, she is a former professor of philosophy in Al-Azhar University, Cairo, which is a place sought by many Muslim authorities for fatwas in many matters. Would that be okay for you ??
Secondly there are various things in Islam that have their roots in previsions semantic religions
Which things other than circumcision and proclamation against speculation and interest ??
Why the focus on burqa and why to ban it only?
I am merely saying that the burqa is neither Islamic nor sightly. It is an unsightly garment that oppresses women, doesn't allow for good communication and brings an uncomfortable feeling in mixed gender company.
It is you who seem to be obsessed with preservation of the burqa.
Those "progressive" societies can go f*ck themselves
Talk to me from Quran and Hadees when you are talking about Islam
Using a swear word while also mentioning Quran ??
As for the Hadees works, I don't give much credibility to them except what I can understand from them based on logic, rationality and Nature-given intellect. From my own thread from 2016 ( an article by Nadeem Paracha ), some history from South Asia :
Building upon the initial thoughts of Sindhi and Sihwarwl were perhaps South Asia’s two most ardent and articulate supporters and theoreticians of Islamic Socilaism: Ghulam Ahmed Parvez and Dr. Khalifa Abdul Hakim.
Parvez was a prominent ‘Quranist’, or an Islamic scholar who insisted that for the Muslims to make progress in the modern world, Islamic thought and laws should be entirely based on the modern interpretations of the Qu’ran and on the complete rejection of the hadith (sayings of the Prophet and his companions based on hearsay and compiled over a 100 years after the Prophet’s demise).
After studying traditional Muslim texts, as well as Sufism, Parvez claimed that almost all hadiths were fabrications by those who wanted Islam to seem like an intolerant faith and by ancient Muslim kings who used these hadiths to give divine legitimacy to their tyrannical rules.
Parvez also insisted that Muslims should spend more time studying the modern sciences instead of wasting their energies on fighting out ancient sectarian conflicts or ignoring the true egalitarian and enlightening spirit of the Qu’ran by indulging in multiple rituals handed down to them by ancient ulema, clerics and compilers of the hadith.
Understandably, Parvez was right away attacked by conservative Islamic scholars and political outfits.
But this didn’t stop famous Muslim philosopher and poet, Muhammad Iqbal, to befriend the young scholar and then introduce him to the future founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
Those who want to ban burqa share the same perception about burqa as NATO countries. Both want to ban burqa
So what should I say about that?
The citizens in NATO countries certainly want the burqa banned but their governments ( and the NATO alliance ) support those in Muslim-majority countries who want to re-introduce or preserve the burqa.
You are. You hate muslims for what they wear and look
That is classic Islamophobia
I am a burqaphobe and mullahphobe.
So a despotic ruler giving speech to his supporters is somehow a proof for me about something that is related to Islam
Are you crazy or what man? How many times I have to tell you?
These Nassers and Qaddafis are nobody. They are dead.
Here in India many years ago, I used to attend a computer institute. One of my batch mates was a Muslim named Jamal Abdul Nasser. His parents named him after the Egyptian leader which means that Nasser ( the leader ) influenced people ( including Muslims ) across the world. I don't think any sensible parents now would name their son Saad after the name of the Indian TJ chief Maulana Saad.
And this is a Guardian report about what the legendary Venezuelan revolutionary, now jailed, Carlos ( the jackal ) said about Gaddafi :
In an emotional finale, he read a text in memory of Muammar Gaddafi, a sort of ideological brother who funded anti-Western attacks."This man did more than all the revolutionaries," Carlos said, sobs choking his voice as he ended the monologue by saying "long live the revolution!"
" Progressive Afghan government" that used to torture its people and commit mass human rights violations?
.There are thousand of Afghans whose loved ones are missing even today after getting abducted by your beloved "progressive Afghan governments"
KHAAD that used to massacre and torture its own people is still a taboo in Afghan society. People hate it for its crimes
Don't you have any shame supporting such criminals?
Would you then also believe in stories of Saddam's acid tanks for dipping prisoners in ?? Would you then believe in NATO's stories of Libyan forces massacring "civilians, including women and children". Or Libyan army being supplied with Viagra to rape women ??
Do you really believe in that Rambo film set in Afghanistan ??
These Afghan "abductees" you speak of, can they just be interesting to KHAD because of some connection to the CIA-ISI supported so-called Mujahideen ??
They have defeated the USA and NATO forces. You can add all the ifs and buts to that but the bottom line is that they are victorious
You sound like a crooked lawyer who uses literalist readings of Law to win judgements.
So I repeat. The Taliban was a co-creation of the CIA and ISI. And the NATO is fighting a half-hearted battle in Afghanistan. There was a recent thread about some "special forces unit" of the Afghan Taliban. With photos of the fighters posing and training among buildings and on open snow and ground. Do you really think NATO Intelligence wouldn't know about this ??
There are millions today who follow Quran and Sunnah and don't have anything to do with Al Qaida or ISIS
But Al Qaeda says it follows Islam. You should go talk to them.
I don't care what someone thinks about Bashar. He is a mass murderer who has blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent muslims on his hands
I pray he die a painful death
Prayers are mainly for comforting oneself and giving hope but also for keeping faith. If prayers worked against others we wouldn't need wars. Think about that.
Half of the syrian population is displaced and the whole country is destroyed and you think Syrians stick with that scumbag murderer
Was this population displaced before 2011 ?? And the Syrian Army and the Syrian Air force - do they comprise of foreigners just like how Assad's opponents are ??
Ijtihad refers to the rational thinking with the aid of Quran and hadith(s) i.e. a Jurist apply his mental faculty consulting the Quran to arrive at a solution to the case at hand.
You will be interested in my mentioning above of Ghulam Ahmed Parvez who was a Quranist.
Can you please explain what you mean by "approved muslim".
Means the Muslim currently promoted as ideal or real by the Establishment and media. In case of Pakistan it would not be those like Faiz or the late Mashal Khan. In India it would be those like Maulana Saad, the chief of the Indian TJ.
I am from Tablighi jamaat. I am not sure how you reached that conclusion, but Tableeghi jamat is full of Doctors, Engineers, Scientists, Software Engineers and other educated class.
I know that. I find the same in India. But are the really educated in the real sense ?? What is their contribution to science and technology despite being in a club where they can find many people from a particular field, say computing ?? Tomorrow you go to your ameer and get him to form a team in the computing field that will begin design of an operating system and a microprocessor which are the most fundamental software and hardware units respectively of a computer without which the computer ( cell phone, laptop etc ) will not run. There are very few operating systems and microprocessors in the world. Let the TJ in Pakistan come out with a radically new OS and microprocessor for the world.
In the first sehroza that we spend in the tableeghi jamat (or the first few days of a chilla), we learn that all muslims are our brothers and we are restricted and warned from calling anyone kafir. As our elders taught:
"If you find a reason to call someone a kafir, try to find 99 reasons to not call him a kafir and if you can find 1, then he is not a kafir".
Oh I didn't get bothered by Areesh calling me a non-Muslim in another thread. I could have called him the same but forum rules prevent me. I just told him that his ideas were the same as those Muslims cultivated by the CIA for the benefit of Western neo-Crusader governments.
Only prayer? no.
Do we focus on prayer? yes.
Why? Q k ham chahte hain k ap jannat main jain. Allah ne apko aqalmand insan banaya hai, aur bht ilm aur qabiliat ata keri hai. Is se apko dunya main kamyabi milegi, InshaALLAH. Ap hamare bhai hain, ham chahte hn apki akhirat b achi ho. Aur namaz us ka bunyadi rasta hai, sabse pehle namaz k barey me sawal hoga. Ktna acha hoga ALLAH apko yahan b izzat de aur akhirat main b.
I am copying below text from a previous reply of mine :
Prayer, ritual ( like fasting ) and dress-code ( in South Asia ) are not the only things that define Islam. Please do a forum search for my posts about the Islamic laws for wedding. I posted that just to say that there is an entire socio-economic side to Islam without which Islam would become just like say Brahmin beliefs.
bura nhn maniega, lekin muje jamahir bhai main bht kher nazar arahi hai. in k views alag hain, lekin yeh Musalmano ka bhala hi chahte hn.
Thank you.
In ko na burqe se taklif hai
Please read my above reply on this to Areesh with reference from Quran.
inko dukh yeh hai k Islam ki dominance nhn hai
That is one of the things, yes.
Inki khuwahish yeh hai k ham yeh sab chor ker science aur technology wagera per apna dhiyan laga den
"Sab chodd kar"... well, I don't mind someone praying or fasting but that should be not the only thing that should define a Muslim. As I quoted above. And yes, you are correct that science and technology should be the most important thing. There are so many ( 50 ?? ) Muslim-majority countries in the world. Why haven't they been able to become a space power after USSR / Russia, USA and now China ?? Where is the Muslim space station floating 400 kms above Earth ??
Lastly, please read the Nadeem Paracha thread I linked above.