Re: Literalism and its effects.

"John Eritsu" <Eritsu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
> It is this attitude and practice of the ULAMA that is the WALL against
> which
MUSLIMS have been hitting their heads for centuries, and hurting themselves
enormously. These ULAMA are a very POWERFUL group and they have learn to
enjoy this power in the name of ALLAH. It is the task of the Muslims to
first of all DETHRONE these adamant non understanding ULAMA. Only then some
headway can be made. But the good news is that the process is already on
its way. These non-listening non-observing ULAMA are already being largely
ignored by the Muslims in the street.

Comment:-

It looks as if Eristu wants people to follow their own whims
or to follow him.
The Quran has other ideas:-

"O you who believe! Obey Allah, and obey the Messenger and those in
authority amongst you; and if you dispute (quarrel or argue) about anything,
refer it to Allah and the Messenger, if you (in truth) believe in Allah and
the Last Day; that is better and fairer in the end." 4:59

"But if you follow most of those who are in the land, they will lead you
astray from the Way of Allah. They follow naught but opinion (conjecture or
suspicion) and they only guess. Your Lord, He knows best who errs from His
path, and He knows best the rightly guided." 6:117-118

"But most of them follow naught but conjecture (suspicion, fancy, guesswork,
speculation); verily, conjecture can by no means take the place of (or avail
against) truth. Verily, Allah is Aware of what they do." 10:37

"And follow (or pursue) not that of which you have no knowledge; verily, the
hearing, the sight, and the heart, of all of these it shall be asked (to
give an account). And walk not on the earth proudly (insolently); verily,
you can not rend the earth asunder, nor can you stretch to the height of the
mountains." 17:36-37

"Restrain thyself with those who call upon their Lord morning and evening,
desiring His countenance (or nearness and intimacy), and let not your eyes
be turned from them, desiring the adornment (and pomp) of the life of this
world; and obey not him whose heart We have made heedless of Our
remembrance, and who follows his own lusts (prejudices, fantasies,
superstitions), and whose affair has been abandoned." 18:29

"Have you considered him who takes for his god his own lusts (prejudices,
fantasies, superstitions)? Would you then be guardian over him? Or do you
think that most of them hear or understand? They are but like the cattle,
nay, they are further astray in the path." 25:43-44

"And if they cannot answer you, then know that they follow their own lusts;
and who is more in error than he who follows his own lust without guidance
from Allah? Verily, Allah guides not a wrong doing people." 28:50

"What! Is he who has a clear argument (or relies on clear proof) from his
Lord like him to whom the evil of his work is made fair-seeming when they
follow their own lusts (or low desires)?" 47:14

"And there are those of them who seek to listen to you, until when they go
forth from you, they say to those who have been given the knowledge, "What
was it that he said just now?" These are they upon whose heart Allah has set
a seal and they follow their own lusts (or low desires). And as for those
who follow the right direction, He increases them in guidance and bestows on
them their piety and restraint (against evil)." 47:16-17

H.A.

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