I think Muslim ummah could not go ahead in any field without breaking the chains of Taqlid (blind imitation) and without liberating from this blind imitation of elders(Aslaf) and patriarchs. Without this kind of breakup, no breakthrough is possible
Read MoreAuthor: Mohammad Ghitreef
Tradition is Good Traditionalism is Not?
Or will our biggies and demagogues continue to speak loud and void only with stubbornness, but the question will be the same till when? Isn’t it true that we have changed completely? This is something to think about.
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Human Freedoms in Islamic Societies
I have no problem if you keep a very long beard, or sports headscarf to cover your body from head to toe voluntarily, though I may not agree with that ideologically. Because it is your free choice, yet the movement you try to impose your choice on me I must be alarmed.
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Wasn’t Muslim India a Secular State?
First of all, the state was not a theocracy. Some religious or semi-religious portfolios, such as Shaikhul Islam, Qazis, and others, cannot make it unsecular and theocratic. Once, some Ulema insisted on Alauddin Khilji for imposing sharia law on his subject. He retorted that you people may be experts in your field, but politics is not your domain, so it would be better if you keep yourself out of that. I would better know what suitable policy is for my subject.
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Muslim Obsession With Jewish Conspiracy
Why we are not realizing the fact that once upon a time Jews also faced the same miserable and wretched situations we are now going under,they survived the Holocaust,yet getting rid of that past ,looking forward went ahead. And thus they learnt their lesson while we haven’t. Very little in number, none the less, ruling the world!
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دورحاضرمیں اسلامی فکرکے کن نئے پہلوؤں پرتوجہ کی ضرورت ہے؟
یہ نئی کاسمولوجی اورجدید ٹیکنالوجی کے وہ پہلوہیں جوارتقا اورنیچرل ہسٹری کی بنیادپرمذہب کے بالمقابل کائنات کے آغازوارتقاء اورزندگی کی تخلیق کا نیا بیانیہ ہمارے سامنے لارہا ہے۔
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Is a new understanding of Shariah texts possible?
Nowadays we are living in the post-modern world, so the whole scenario has changed because of the internet and due to new Cosmology, new world view and modern science and technology, which requires more intellectual abilities than physical ones,
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Islamic Thought: Why Rethinking is a Must?
Obviously, this opinion is very problematic in today’s world and it leaves all the claims Muslims make that Islam is a religion of peace and love flawed.
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Does Scraping the Madrasa Education Solve any Problem?
The question is that there is a need for madrassas, this system cannot be abolished but there is an urgent need for changes in this system too and no government will do it, then who would do it?
I think the community itself should do this on its own. And since it is too late now, so we have to take immediate steps for this reform.
Layamoot:(لايموت) An autobiography
When I was reading his story the first thought occurred to me, it was my story the story of my generation the story of every Muslim youth born in the country after ‘Independence’.
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Taliban in Office: Why Political Islam is a problem?
So a new discourse is needed, where you freely question, rethink in Islamic Fiqh legacy and discuss all these questions to develop a new jurisprudence relevant to this age. Without this rethinking and revisiting the old set of political norms that became irrelevant now, we can not imagine any breakthrough in stagnant Islamic thinking. This is a theological question which should be addressed theologically. Muslim scholars and writers wrongly relate this generally to only foreign invasion and the great geopolitical game wherein big world powers are involved.
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