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Is it surprising that those who most speak of enlivening the monotheistic spirit that leads to the likes of early medieval Andalusia/Baghdad are foremost in every regressive & reductive way of thinking to impede any path to it?
Any appeal to making sense, or a rejection of magical thinking disparaged as Mu& #39;tazili. Reasoning God& #39;s law is & #39;evil modernism& #39;. Making sense of God& #39;s will in non-normative contexts is secularism. They simply have an Islam they can& #39;t move w/ nor provides anything constructive.
Having had this conversation repeatedly for over decade it& #39;s clear to see it& #39;s cowardice. Change/growth tends to be uncomfortable & ppl reductively appeal to a & #39;tradition& #39; they& #39;ve made up like fairy tales (bc the books are v different) use it to simply stay in their comfort zone.
They& #39;re SO desperate for comfortable status quo to remain they& #39;ll audaciously argue w/ Qur& #39;an fully aware they know nothing. Same w/ hadith. Whoever points this out is arrogant, tho true arrogance is to speak on behalf of God knowing they know v little. Not even classical Arabic.
The conundrum: if we reject them we& #39;re unfair: "have patience". But are we meant to be committed to those who hold us back? We& #39;re told ignore them, but then isn& #39;t that effectively rejecting them & getting on w/ it? What about when they try to impede/undermine us on the ground?
And for how long will this juvenile state of affairs going round in a circle? For how long will we give currency to reductive thinking/attitudes? Where exactly will intelligent movement come from when it& #39;s so easily drowned out by inanity on social media & in mosques?
Does God really want us to associate w/ this? This is the scum (ghuthaa& #39;) the Prophet spoke of. This is not civilisational & Muslims really don& #39;t seem to be in ANY position to build a civilisation. They think civilisations magically appear by uttering the slogan & #39;Quran & sunnah& #39;.
