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8/9/2019 Who Needs Reformation

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Who needs reformation?

(A Rebuttal to Tasleema Nasreen’s article)

Mubashir Hassan

On 13th of January an article titled ‘Will gunmen get me too? Ending terror requires that Islam is

reformed, modernized’’ authored y !asleema "asreen, in res#onse to $hare %edo incident,

&as #ulished in Times of India' I am res#onding to same'

( false theory has een circulated that Islam #romotes )iolence and it fa)ours *illings'

%o&e)er it is contrary to the actual facts' +ur’an no&here s#ea*s of )iolence or of *illing' It is

the misinter#retation and misunderstanding of the highest degree to state that +ur’an directs

uslims to *ill infidels' !he )erses she refers to #ertain to &ar time and can’t e quoted di)orced

from the historical circumstances &hich &ere the immediate causes for their re)elations -(sae

"azool.'

In order to understand +ur’aan &e must ha)e the requisite e/#ertise' "o uslim studies

+ur’an in isolation and has to de#end u#on the commentaries of the reno&ned scholars for

com#rehension' !he +u0ranic )erses are the fountains of *no&ledge and an e/tremely delicate

and difficult underta*ing for &hich the (raic language alone is not enough ut a mufassir or

commentator of the +ur0an must ha)e )ast and dee# *no&ledge of the synta/, etymology,

rhetoric, and literature of the (raic language, as &ell as, that of #ro#hetic !raditions, sayings of the com#anions, #rinci#les go)erning uris#rudence and e/egesis, doctrinal articles of elief and

scholastics'

E)en an (ra has to study the +ur’an from a trained #erson to understand it' !his is &hy

the nole $om#anions, &hose mother2tongue &as (raic used to s#end long #eriods of time in

learning the +ur’an from the %oly ro#het' 4mar 5(, s#ent t&el)e years in learning and

meditating o)er 6urah 7aqara and (dullah in 4mar 5( s#ent eight years to learn it' -+urtui.'

( common man has to de#end u#on the commentary of the mufassirs -commentators.and a serious uslim &ho is serious to learn +ur’an has to ma*e an e/hausti)e study of many

commentaries esides for the understanding +uran one needs to e #ious so that the +u0ranic

meaning descends u#on his heart' In the &ords of (llama Iqal 5(,

!eray dil #er a ta* na hoo nazool e +ur’an89irah *usha hai na 5azi na sahi e :ashaf


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-4nless the 7oo* s each )erse and #art e re)ealed unto your heart,8Inter#reters, though muchʹ

#rofound, its sutle #oints cannot e/#ound'.

9reat scholars of +uran, &ho ha)e dedicated their &hole li)es to the learning and understanding

of the +uran, ne)er claim to e its e/#erts and are al&ays eager to learn more, ho& can a #erson,

y ust reading some translations claim to ha)e understood the )erses of the +uran and then use

the same to mislead #eo#le' Why are such #eo#le li)ing under such a &rong im#ression that

they are e/#erts enough to gi)e lectures on +uran'

!he )erses under reference are not instructions to indi)iduals ut to &ell estalished uslim

go)ernments #ertaining to &ar time' Islam does not as* you to *ill innocent #eo#le' In fact

+u0ranic clear inunctions are;


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de#recate others, and greater the #ersonality moc*ed at, more talented you &ould e considered'

Would it not amount to anarchy?

It &as $harlie %edo that fired aurice 6inet in @GGD for dra&ing a cartoon that &as

considered anti26emitic. Concealing of your face from dirty ogling is not allo&ed ut you are free

to e/#ress &hate)er dirty thoughts come to your mind' It a##ears there is a conscious effort to

drag men to the le)el of easts and to get rid of humanity, of ci)ilization and of decent li)ing'

In the last #art !asleema as*s;


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act, that is the criterion for us to udge the rightness of an act' It is not our lind follo&ing, ut a

con)iction that the ro#hetic (cts are di)inely guided, so they can’t e defecti)e'

We are attached to him through a legacy of s#irituality' %e is a fountain of lessings from

&hich &e dra& ins#irations' We realise the ad)antages &hich accrued to humanity ecause of

him' Why should &e not lo)e him? It is natural #art of our E0maan and it is connected &ith the

sulimity of our lo)e and relation &ith our ro#het' !hose &ho tal* of freedom of s#eech should

*no& that hurting or ausing the ro#het ohammad -6(W. in any &ay is too #ainful for

uslims> it is li*e #iercing hearts &ith a *nife' 6uch #ainful things are #ro)ocati)e' !hey *no&

it' 6uch #ro)ocations should not e considered as freedom of s#eech'

(t the end she tal*s aout reformation of Islam' It is sim#ly laughale' 6uch &ords

emanate from such #eo#le &ho are unale to com#rehend the eauty of Islam' It is #erfect Keen,

#erfect &ay of life and any endea)our to reform the erfect &ould only result in its deterioration'

!here are restrictions &ithin &hich &e are required to li)e our li)es' Fes Islam does not allo&

free mi/ing of men and &omen, there are no #re2marital relations, there is no drin*ing,

gamling, interest ased an*ing, and Islam does not allo& ta*ing life e/ce#t under #ro#er

#rocedure of la&' We do not ha)e un&ed mothers and children &ho are thro&n on streets' !here

is no unust distriution of &ealth H a &orld &here the &ealth of 1L e/ceeds the &ealth of DDL'

Ours is not a society &here the children do not *no& as to &hom he &as orn, our elders do not

die in old age %omes' Our elders do not li)e alone' &e ha)e an un#arallel freedom of s#eech

&here an old lady as*s the head of the state as to &herefrom he got full dress &hen others could

not #re#are full dress from the same quantity of cloth they got from 7ait ul al' Our udicial

system is so uniased fearless that the Judge tells the head of the state -%azrat (li. that he can’t

acce#t his &itnesses as one &as his son and the other his sla)e e)en though the o##onent in the

case &as a Je&' 6o much equality that the %ead of the state holds the ro#e of the camel and the

sla)e is on the camel' We are not allo&ed to moc* at the religious figures of others'

!hese are our #rinci#les of our Keen' $an any system match this system? !his is our &ay

of life and &ho dare call it as araric? (re not these #rinci#les the foundations of a ci)ilized

nation? Is not it a #eaceful system? Is not this the &ay of life that &ould &ithstand the #ressures

that are ri##ing the &estern nations a#art' !he family, &hich is the asic unit of the ci)ilization,

is at sta*e in the &est and soon it &ould gi)e &ay to more disintegration' Ko&n the timeline the

&est &ould cra)e for a ci)ilization ut it &ould al&ays find itself drifting a&ay'


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Who needs the reformation? When you do not *no& and understand the message of Islam ho&

can you tal* of its reformation? Fou need to understand Islam first, and then gi)e us sermons' It

is your mind that needs reformation, not the religion of (llah'

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