veiled4allah: Islam and pluralism veiled4allah: Islam and pluralismDr. Alwani, president of the Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) and also a member of Jeddah based International Academy of Fiqh, pointed out in an interview with the "Islamic Horizons" that an "example of misguided rulings is the fatwa that countries like the United States are dar al kufr and dar al harb, where Muslims have the right to circumvent their laws and regulations"... ...Dr. Alwani also identified that "in the past, scholars were unanimous in their view that the entire earth was the land of Allah and did not divide it into such spheres. Instead, some scholars like Imam al Razi considered the earth to consist of dar al ijaba, which replaces the term dar al Islam, and dar ad dawah, which replaces the term dar al harb. Dar ad dawah means a land for dialogue and inter-faith communication, a land where people are not classified, but all human being are considered one family. This family has two parts. One is identified as ummat al ijaba, instead of ummat al Muslim, and other as ummat ad dawah, instead of kuffar or harbiyun. This part of our heritage and legacy represents Islam more correctly than the other part, because the whole earth has been created by Allah as humanity’s home. The Prophet (saws) told us that the entire earth is a masjid and pure. The only difference is that in dar al ijaba, the message of Islam has been established, and in dar ad dawah the message has to be spread. We all know what the nuances of performing dawah are, and certainly that misguided dar al harb / dar al kufr ruling is not among the instruments of dawah". "The famous 5th Hijra century Imam al Mawardy, in fact said that even if we have one Muslim family living in a non-Muslim state, their home will be the home of Islam. The reality is that wherever Muslims find the freedom to practice Islam, that place will be dar al Islam for them, and there is no need for them to migrate to some other dar al Islam for this purpose"Later on, he tackles the question of the jizya, the tax traditionally imposed on non-Muslims living under Islamic rule, and provides historical and legal evidence that the jizya should be (a) commensurate with the services rendered by the Islamic government to the non-Muslim people, and (b) equivalent in value to the zakat tax paid by Muslims, which would seem to remove any oppressive aspects from it.
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This is slightly related to the topic: In Frederick Denny's Islam and the Muslim Community, he mentions that "Dar al-Harb" didn't mean the Muslims were at war there, but rather its inihabitants were at war with God and each other. I've never seen that anywhere else. Have you ever heard of that? It may be a case of a couple of hadith suggest that while others suggest the more common explanations, but it definitely got my curiosity up.Subject: Re: Islam and pluralism
I greet the Muslims with As-salaam alaykum, as is the sunnah, and the kaafir (disbelievers) with as-salaam min tabi’ay ala hudaa (peace be upon the rightly guided), as is the sunnah!Muhajabah, you must surely have used your intellect to have embraced Islaam but it seems you are trying so hard to make Islaam compatible with living in a world dominated by non-Islam, Kufr, manmade values and concepts that you have become so tunnel visioned. This posting and the quotes are thoroughly incompatible with the Sunnah and reflect a non-Islamic, apologetic defeatist response to the Ummah’s challenge to make Allah’s Word predominate all before it (liyuthhirrahu ala deeni kulli, at-tawbah 33). There is so much misconception but I will just make a few points.
Did you not read the Qassas ambiyah and all of them (AS), bar Yunus AS, struggled with their own people to establish the Truth and light that is Islam? Did you not read the hadith that states there will come a time when holding onto Islaam is like holding to a burning charcoal? Did you not read the hadith ‘Maan badalu deenahu faqtalu’ (‘Whosever changes his Deen, kill him’)? Did you not read the ayah (I believe it is called ayaat us-saif, the verse of the sword) commanding us to fight the Kuffar until they pay jizyah and are thereby humbled or subdued (saaghiruun) and the corroborating hadith 'I have been ordered to fight…..’? What of the ayaat describing our existence as a struggle betwen Haq and batil? etc. etc. .....
I fear you have indeed read all this and more but you are trapped in US efforts, assisted by the Saudis, to redefine Islaam to make it compatible with their degenerated ideology.
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Abu Yasir, I have asked you previously to refrain from using abusive language. You think I am deviated. Fine. You have given me your warning. Your responsibility is done. Go on your way.If you continue to post these kind of attacks, I'm afraid that your posts will come out as gibberish in the future. This is your second and final warning. I do not mind a vigorous exchange of ideas but the one thing that I do not allow here is attacks on another person's character. If you persist in doing it, I will take action so that others do not have to be bothered by reading it.
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I never thought I 'd say this. But Yasir selective out-of-context quoting of the Quran and the Hadiths reminds me of the dishonesty of that disaffected (fake) muslim (TM).Please ignore him. He probably would love to spar with the sophomorons at LGF but would be banned by those great defenders of freedom of speech.
Abu, please read the Prophet's last sermon. To me that is the essence of Islam as to lived by aspring muslims.
AM, sorry that my first post on your site had to be this sour but I just could not resist.
Regards