By AY Mol on 28-9-2009 23:30

Door Oleh In de gemeenschappelijke islamitische perceptie moeten de mensenrechten worden onderworpen om de rechten van God. Daarbij zij verwaarlozing van de rechten van mensen die zijn veroordeeld als ketters of die dreigen het religieuze establishment. Is er een alternatief islamitische interpretatie? Het gesprek Novriantoni en Ramy El-Dardiry, leden van de Liberal Islam Network (JIL), had met prof. dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl, hoogleraar islamitisch recht aan de UCLA, zou wat meer licht te werpen op deze kwestie. De discussie vond plaats in het Hilton Hotel in Jakarta op zaterdag 24 / 7, tijdens het bezoek van dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl's naar Indonesië.JIL: Dr Khaled, zelfmoordaanslag lijkt een trend onder islamitische radicalen tegenwoordig. Hashem Saleh, een Syrische intellectueel, zei dat moslims zich richten op 'kamikaze. Wat is uw mening over de zelfmoordaanslag in de naam van de islam? Khaled Abou El Fadl: Ten eerste, weiger ik deze trend te associëren  met het concept van de Jihad. Het concept van Jihad is...

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By AY Mol on 26-9-2009 12:19

What is Process Theology? It is a modern form of metaphysics philosophy that tries to understand God from a scientific cosmological point of view. It was first developed by the English philosopher A.N.Whitehead in the 1930's, who broke away from the traditional Jewish-Christian concept of God.

 

 

 

A small summary of the key ideas of Process Theology are:

 

God is not omnipotent in the sense of being coercive. The divine has a power of persuasion rather than coercion. Process theologians interpret the classical doctrine of omnipotence as involving force, and suggest instead a forbearance in divine power. "Persuasion" in the causal sense means that God does not exert unilateral control. Reality is not made up of material substances that endure through time, but serially-ordered events, which are experiential in nature. These events have both a physical...

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By AY Mol on 21-9-2009 22:07

Everything in the universe has submitted to the God's system; submission to

God in peace (Islam) is the law of the universe (3:83). İslam:

· is not a proper name, but a descriptive noun coming from the Arabic root of surrendering/

submission/peace, used by God to describe the system delivered by all His messengers

and prophets (5:111; 10:72; 98:5), which reached another stage with Abraham

(4:125; 22:78).

· is peacefully surrendering to God alone (2:112,131; 4:125; 6:71; 22:34; 40:66).

· is a system with universal principles, which are in harmony with nature (3:83; 33:30;

35:43).

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By AY Mol on 21-8-2009 14:11

Ik hoop dat dit ook verplicht gaat worden in Nederland zodat Moslim leiders beter het debat kunnen voeren en meer connectie hebben met de Moslim jeugd.

 

College Training for Muslim Imams in Germany A Laborious Process One German state is hoping to improve the integration of its Muslim community by offering imam training programs at university. Michael Hollenbach reports In future, the man reading the text may be able to translate it into good German In most mosques in Germany, prayers are said in Arabic and the sermon is usually given in Turkish. German is rarely heard. "We have 2,600 mosques in Germany and I don't know a single imam who has a European education," said political scientist Bassam Tibi, a professing Muslim. "How can they show the Muslims who live here how to live? These imams would probably tell me I shouldn't integrate." Bulent Ucar, professor for Islamic studies...

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By AY Mol on 12-7-2009 12:54

In the understanding of Grand Mufti Alim Muhamed Abduh, Mufti of Al-Azhar University, till his death in 1905:

“ 1. The primary purpose of the Qur’an is to affirm the Tawhid, the unicity of God, and all other subsequent doctrines that affirm God’s action of revelation, the sending of prophets, and the reality of resurrection and human recompense.

2. The Qur’an is a complete and comprehensive revelation; believers cannot be selective in what portions they choose to adhere to.

3. The Qur’an is the primary source for legislation for a righteous society. (While Abduh endorsed the use of reason and science in understanding the text he insisted that social life is to be organized according to the teachings of the Qur’an.)

4. Muslims should not imitate their forebears in interpreting the Qur’an, but must be authentic and true to their own understanding.

5. Reason and reflection should be utilized in interpreting the Qur’an. (Abduh saw the Qur’an as urging people to search and...

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By AY Mol on 14-6-2009 22:06

 

 

 

I have ordered this promising book, which discusses a very important topic; the influence of the Qur'an on the creation of the modern free and tolerant world.

 

 

Nowadays it is thought that the Qur'an represents the total opposite of what the free world stands for, but this was not the idea of early Enlightenment thinkers. The contribution of the Islamic culture and the Qur'an for the creation of the Renaissance, Enlightenment and today's modern free world, is enormous. But sadly due to the economical and intellectual decline in the Muslim world after 1500 caused by bad leadership, which caused a wrong direction of Muslim interpretation and thought, and the non-acknowledgement of Western thought of their debt ot Islam; the idea of Islam being the source of the modern world is a strange idea.

 

 

But modern academics are starting to acknowledge...

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By AY Mol on 4-6-2009 21:12

By GA Parwez

 

Rough translation from the dictionary/tafir Lughat ul-Qur'an (Language of the Qur'an):

 

st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } Sad, laam, waw (yeh)



Since salaat is an important part of Deen, we will deliberate on it in detail:

1) As sala: the middle of the back: the place where an animal’s tail grows or the

begining of the slope of the hip: both sides of the tail are called salawaan: the

plural is salawaat or aslaa: * sala: yaslu: salwa: means to strike the sala(as

mentioned above): salautuhu:I struck him on the sala.



2) Sallal farasa tasliah is said when the number two horse in a race is running very

close to the number one horse: the horse in front is called saabiq: and the one in

second position is called almusalli:

*Taj

page 1035

thus salla means to follow behind almost touching the one in front: one of Hazrat Ali’s

tale says: sabaqa rasulul laahi...

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By AY Mol on 31-5-2009 12:09

What has happened in modern bureaucratic societies, that parade as democracies (like the USA), is that the chance to reason and the ability to be free has been lost (see http://robots.asadi.org) that is the nature of a bureaucratic society: a society where standardization is the norm and the person is surrounded by rules that govern behavior from birth to death. Such "democracies" exists in form only and not in essence, here choices are not formulated by a "public" but rather insinuated upon a highly propagandized "mass society" that knows next to nothing regarding public issues. This is achieved by control of the "cultural apparatus" by a small aristocracy, the Power Elite. The "cultural apparatus"- language, education, status and technology- with the media and the formal educational institutions playing a dominant role, thus ensures that this elite achieves cultural hegemony. The person thinks he or she is free and living under a "democracy" but the reality of the situation...

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By AY Mol on 22-5-2009 10:53

As it is out of print, and old copies are only available at university libraries, when I got the chance to buy one, I didn't need to think twice. As it is an important study, it is now scanned in and for the first time available online. Prof. JMS Baljon, from Leiden university, has written several important studies on modern Muslim thought, including one on Syed Ahmed Khan and on Shah Wali Allah, both which I also got my hands on and will be scanned in shortly.

 

"Modern Muslim Koran Interpretation" it is a great summary of 20th century Muslim advancement in understanding the Qur'an and one of the most important Western studies on modern Muslim Qur'an interpretation covering from 1880 till 1960.  This book is one of the most quoted by scholars of the Qur'an in the West, Muslim and non-Muslim, as is Izutsu's "God and Man in the Koran".

 

Due to the large size of the scanned book, it has been split up in 6 parts:

 

    Modern Muslim Koran Interpretation v1a (PDF)   ...

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By AY Mol on 21-5-2009 16:35

An introduction and similarity between the Human Rights displayed in the Qur'an and that given by the United Nations. It is an ongoing work in progress.

 

Some examples:

 

1. Equal human dignity by birth:  ولقد كرمنا بنى ءادم 17:70 Surely, We have conferred dignity on the descendants of the human species (as a birth right, regardless of where the child is born).  قد خلقنا الانسن فى احسن تقويم 95:4 Indeed, We have created the human being (all of them) in the best design.

 

2 b. The only superiority over another is righteous conduct, not race, gender, nationality or creed:  يايها الناس انا خلقنكم من ذكر وانثى وجعلنكم شعوبا وقبائل لتعارفوا ان اكرمكم عند الله اتقىكم ان الله عليم خبير 49:13 O Mankind! We have created you male and female, and have made you nations and tribes so that you might (affectionately) come to know one another. Surely, the most honored among you, in the sight of God, is the one who is best in conduct. God is Knower, Aware.  ولكل درجت مما عملوا وليوفيهم اعملهم وهم لا يظلمون...

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