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It really worries me that the average Muslim doesn’t have the exposure to old Islamic texts to stomach the way they are written.
Every few weeks on, someone comes out with a hot-take. They post an excerpt from a fiqh book or a hadith or whatever, and everyone loses their mind.
Every few weeks on, someone comes out with a hot-take. They post an excerpt from a fiqh book or a hadith or whatever, and everyone loses their mind.
The only thing wrong with that text is that it isn’t worded in the post modern politically correct lingo. The same thing would have been perfectly fine if I had tweeted it out in more acceptable wordings.
This comes from the current Western phenomena of revising history in light of present eyes. It constitutes of cancelling all figures of the past (really, there is no one who is spared) and burning all past literature because it isn’t written according to the present narrative.
The reality of the matter is that we don’t need our history rewritten. Sure, we as a community, continue to strive towards improving, but those improvements are based on the criteria outlined by the Prophet (peace be upon him), you know, 1400 years ago.
Instead, we just need to accept that sometimes people of the past won’t speak the same way as we do, and that’s fine. Holding them accountable to the standards of the 21st century will just result in the tearing of everything that has been built.
Our tradition is heavily based on the past. We need it.
