In taza khudaon mein bara sab se watan haiThere always have been virtue and wickedness. Although its understanding is inside everybody's heart but nobody except the Creator can define what is right and wrong. Socrates and Plato did try to form their Utopia by shear logic and thought but Rome didn't stay atop for eternity. It didn't ascribe the era of Peace, Justice and equality. The accounts of this so called 'magnificent' empire can be read in many books. (1. The history of decline and fall of roman empire, by Edward Gibbon. 2. Insaani dunya per musalmanon k arooj o zawal ka asar, by Syed Abul Hassan Ali Nadvi). It is clear that the fall was due to lack of civic virtue. Why is that? Because human logic is not capable of defining the balance of society nor it is an evolutionary process.
jo parahan is ka woh mazhab ka kafan hai
We as Muslims believe that right and wrong is what Allah and His Prophet (Sallallahu Alaehay Wasslam) has stated and nothing surpasses it. The foundation of Islam is on this that
"Whosoever Does not Judge by what Allah has revealed (then) such people are 'fasiqoon' to Allah." Ma'idah:47Some people may argue that what bad is happening in West for not following moral code of Islam. The answer is beautifully given by Maryam Jameelah (May God be pleased with her)in her book "Western Civilization condemned by itself" that all the forces in such a society will work for its deterrence. Such a society cannot move on and humanity would have to suffer. And this is exactly what is happening in West.
The example of Singapore that I have stated is just a miniature that i stumbled upon on this website.
The marvels of West surpass this by several thousand exponents.
P.S: This post was inspired by my recent talks with Khwaja Khawaja Ahsan Ul Haq and Umer Toor.
4 comments:
The whole verse says:
"Let the People of the Gospel judge by that which Allah hath revealed therein. Whoso judgeth not by that which Allah hath revealed: such are evil-livers."
Next ayah: 5:48.
"And unto thee have We revealed the Scripture with the truth, confirming whatever Scripture was before it, and a watcher over it. So judge between them by that which Allah hath revealed, and follow not their desires away from the truth which hath come unto thee. For each We have appointed a divine law and a traced-out way. Had Allah willed He could have made you one community. But that He may try you by that which He hath given you (He hath made you as ye are). So vie one with another in good works. Unto Allah ye will all return, and He will then inform you of that wherein ye differ."
These verses are too deep for me to understand at this stage, given the fact that Hazrat Burhan Ahmed Faruqi (ra) based his whole book on small part of this ayah, certainly not small at all in significance.
I'm not trying to prove anything. Its very important to reflect on whole of it in this post-christian secular world.
Jazak Allah for the whole verse.
Every ayah of quran is deep and needs much of reflection. And one amazing fact is that the comprehension of each ayah varies from time to time and from person to person.
This is the "aijaz-ul-quran".
Well i don't believe it varies from time to time in the sense that every generation should re-interpret it as a whole; like some modernists or maybe reformists do. Rather, in the sense that new rationales maybe discovered with more experiences or advances in understanding of things of scientific nature... Other than that, sticking to Tradition and its development in earliest generations to which we have no moral or spiritual equvilent now, is as per scholars of past and now imperative
i thought exactly what you have written. JazakAllah!
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