My Aswer to Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed of Sweden.
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My answer to Mr.Ishtiaq Ahmed's article”THE NEED TO MODERNISE ISLAM. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_13-9-200 5_pg3_2
(1) Off course Quran is the word of God and final communication to human kind and if we believe otherwise, we no longer have right to call us Muslim. A human's association with God and religion can only is determined by his/her's believing in the core principals and ideology of religion regardless of this fact that many people do not practise religion but they still believe in God. You can call them sinner but they are still Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Christian, Jews or whatever their religion is.
(2) Yes off course you can find this answer in Quran as; it is me God) who taught human to light fire, don't they have wisdom to conceive me (God) as their creator"!
(3) He (The one) is an adult according to secular and sharia law and guidelines regarding maturity of a human offspring. Why would you meddle with his decision to choose an education which he thinks can better serve him in the future? And if you still think it is not good for him than you pray God and left it to Him (God) and him (boy). And if your son has his will, then it is the will of God you can't change it. The will of boy is Qadr, destiny or fate you and your boy can't change it, unless God himself with his discretion change it and it is this phenomenon which people used to call miracle.
(4) I ask you to tell the readers; how many hour you work in a day? Average working hour in Scandinavia are 7.4 per day and 37 hour in a week. Can't you find a solemn moment to revert to God the creator of Universe to beseech or pray him to change your boy's mind, if God wish to and find it inappropriate for the boy?
I myself work, and obviously can't offer my prayer at their due time. I do it when I come back home at half past five in the afternoon. You know, what I do after entering my home and later taking my shoes off and changing to casual dressing, I make ablution and stand before God to offer My afternoon (Zohar,Assar,Mugrib Namaz = Salat, depending on what time/season of the year is) prayer. It is to say that I offer my prayer Alqadah = the missed prayers.
(5) Because they had colonized the half of the globe, particularly the Muslim world and pushed them into hundreds of year back, by destroying the available infrastructure, civil and military institutions and by missionary schooling for some elites infused a sense of despair in general public and inferiority complex in the mind of the elites.
(6) Why should we (Muslims) abandon the penal code, just to please the secular forces at home and abroad? The laws of a country are being made and enforced with respect to the, religion, culture and tradition on which's base a society is being set up and function and keeping this fact out of view, only play havoc as we are seeing in the so called Islamic republic of Pakistan which in matter of fact is a secular country but ironically being called the IRP which render only one purpose to defame Islam.
Adultery, fornication, homosexuality and sadomy had and still have forbidden by all the religion and dogmas the exception is secularism. Do you want us to let these vices be infused in our societies? What good bring these disgusting habits to the human, I'll be very please to hear your version of Islam or secularity or whatever you practice in your daily life.
6. b) the only part of your comment regarding the abandonment of Islamic penal law, I find myself in agreement is false accusation of adultery, sodomy or so, but what it has to do with Islam. It is an individual conduct of behave and it is punishable under sharia and secular laws, so what is new that you are telling the readers. If you have abandon your believe in Islam, Ok and if you as being a new member of the secular movement preach us to do they same as you did, Ok. But please do not cheat the Muslim by your Muslim name.
(6.c)Tell me, why western and secular countries label all those who are not seculars or democrats as dictators, non-democrats and fundamentalist etc? As such, is the case with religion Islam all those who practice other than Islam are Kafir or non Muslim, so what is wrong with it? Hence in this sense if the former one is correct then why the later one be blamed for being wrong.
(7) It is not correct, after the death of father/grand father or mother/grand mother their grand sons/daughters are inheritor of their part of the property moveable or immoveable.
(7.a)My own brother- in- law and his sister got their part of share in their grand father's property and again my same brother in law's sister's children got their mother's part of property after their mother's death.
(7.b)How could you have this problem, when you are secular of character? See my answer to this point above. It could be a problem for me but not for you, while I or other Muslim likes me are not asking this question, because we know how to deal it with.
(7.c) The offering of prayers and holding of Ramadan is matter of understanding, conviction, zeal, enthusiasm and commitment to once duties toward religion or work or some thing else you think is important for you. Tell me if clock works there are not or it also takes leap of 4 month? If not and it works as usual, then problem is solved you can render you religious duties according to the clock.
Muslim haven't had access to the farthest corner of the world, if we did have access, we would have solved this problem long ago.
(7.d)But I assure you as we are the second largest religion in Europe and Scandinavia we will find a solution to this problem as soon as we will get there, if you still find you in disagreement with me despite the solution above.
(8) Quran is a framework or a constitution as the constitution of the United States which contains seven articles and 26 amendments, that has been in effect since its adoption in 1789 which is now 216 year old but all laws and regulations are made and introduce within its frame and every time in the cases when ambiguities on laws and regulation arise, lawmakers look toward the constitution for guideline. In a way constitution is a holly document, if the American constitution is still valid after the 216 year so why not 1200 year prior to it.
(8.a)As I said Quran is a framework or a constitution after Quran we look toward Fiqah and Hadit (saying of the prophet PBUH) and Ijtihad (Consensus on a particular issue) or Ijmah-ul-ummah = the general agreement.
So how could you say that Islam is not progressive but regressive?
(9) Rd.Chief Justice of supreme court of Pakistan Mr. Justice Muhammad Munir perhaps hadn’t had opportunity to open Quran up, otherwise he could have found my verses on history, religion other then Islam, matrimony, anthropology, philosophy, biology, chemistry, physics, cosmology, astronomy and reckoning and many more issues regarding living bodies and universe.
The story of Pharaohs vs. Moses, Roman vs. Iranians and the stories of Jews, Christian, Zoroastrian and atheist, homosexuals, lesbians.
The description of moon, sun, stars and their functions.
The functioning of human and animal bodies.
And the outcome of sexual intercourse between two opposite sexes.
The penal code the law of justice, the punishing of the criminals and rewarding of the culprits.
And the principles of Shahada = or witnessing.
Rules of wars and occupation of enemy territories.
The addressing on the matrimonial issues.
And description of metrology and happening of the seasons and weathers and disasters.
And happening of changes in the inner core of earth which creates earthquake and eruption of lava etc.
(10) Quran and Hadith strongly recommend acquisition of knowledge such as;
*Iqra beismi rabi Khalaqal Insan = read/recite in the name of God who had created human.
*Rabi Zidni ilmah = Oh God help me to acquire/expand me knowledge.
Taseel-ul-ilam minal mahid wal lahid = Seek knowledge from the lap of mother till ending in grave.
(11) Islam is the only religion that is based on rationalism;
just look at the invention of the modern day facilities that help human and animals to keep their living standard up.
(11.a)As behind every invention or discovery there is an outside force or inventor and without this force or inventor the discoveries and invention which we are enjoying today would have been a dream, exactly the same is the case with existence of universe and happening of the season and further more the unique phenomenon of the world the standing ape, whom God has gifted with some of its qualities. All these things pointing toward a Supreme Being the God.
(11.b)There are lot of Christian countries which has more economic, social and law an order problems than Muslim. The backward Christian countries have one resemblance with Muslim countries the colonial past.
(11.c) The achievements that Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia and Malaysia had made in fifty to sixty year the Europe had made them in many centuries of uninterrupted self governance and flourishing of civil and military institutions.
Tell me who are quicker, intelligent, those who made there progress in centuries are those who made them in less than a century?
Sorry, I forgot to mention one resemblance from Hindu scriptures;
The main prayer of the Vedic Dharma, also known as the Gayatri Mantra, originated from this region, and was 'Aum bhu-bhva svah tat sevitr varay niyem bargoh de vas ya dhi ma hi diyeo yo na prachodayat'.
Or 'O Lord, Thou are the protector of life and of breath, dispeller of miseries and bestower of happiness. Thou are the creator and the most acceptable intelligence, possessing eternal qualities. May Thine qualities and Thy inspiration pass to us?'
Brevity. Surprisingly similar sentiments are found in the Holy Koran, as in other holy books.
And if the Quran is not the word of God?
How would it be possible for a human to compile so much different account in one book?