Re: Dr. Israr Ahmed- Ummat e Muslima ka Mazi, Haal or Mustaqbil
As there are not many deeni scholars of islam in ummah we need to worry about it. At the same time we need to realise that the scholars like modoodi, dr israr, dr tahir qadri, ghamdi, parwez etc are not the last word on islam rather they are foundational bricks. Islam is not yet understood to the degree that it needs to be understood.
There is still a lot wrong with works of these great people because we are all born ignorant and as we learn we only reach certain level and that is it. It therefore not a good idea to hold on to everything past scholars stated but be ready to go beyond them because that is what they would have done had they remained alive for long. Life is for learning and the process carries on far as long as one lives.
Although most of us now talk about islam as a deen rather than as a mazhab but that is only a start to a new chapter ie what is meant by islam as a constitution and law in context of the quran. This calls for a new interpretation of the quran so that all could benefit from understanding of the quran as a divine constitution for humanity to organise around.
The quran contains all the information that we need for a constitution to be a constitution. It tells us how to form organisations and administrations. However such information is masked by old mazhabi interpreters of the quran that is why even these great scholars could not realise it or that they did not want to create yet another controversy so soon after sir seyyed and iqbal. That is because making too many fundamental changes too soon could derail the whole thing.
However, now people are ok with islam as a deen it now time to define what deen exactly means. It in sense of elimination process means no more mazhabi nonsense invented in time malukiyat by their mullahs in the name of islam. But that does not show what islam really is. To see what islam really is we need to look into quran and words used in the quran and their meanings and recontruct the concept of islam the deen=constitution. We need to find in the quran words which tell us islam is constitution for humanity to organise itself into a community.
These terms were masked by mullahs by using shane nazoole quran technique and thereby breaking down the flow of the quran thereby making the quranic understanding subservient to their nonsense interpretations. This is why today when we tell people about islam they ask us you muslims talk about islam where is your ruling system template and your economic system template and we shut up because we don't know and we never thought about it. This is why we never bothered looking for it in the quran and have not found it in the quran.
This is what we need to change. We need to come up with answer of questions like this if we really want islamic rule in the world to turn it in to a blissful garden. This what the quran talks about in surah al maaidah. The heavenly table full of provision or livelihood for all.
We need to stop looking for magic and miracles in the quran and getting things from Allah without working for them. The quran is a revealed road map or program for revolutionary changes in human scoieties by humans themselves.
It is not at all about sex and wine in paradise. That is to put it simply just being stupid. Shows what kings and their mullahs thought islam was all about.
Humanity has to go beyond this nonsense and achieve much higher goals for which it need to raise its thinking level and stop talking about sex and women. That is just animal level of thinking or rather even below that as well.
May Allah guide us all to his message so that we could understand it and put it to use for our betterment.