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How Mercenary Jurists Betrayed Islam: And Reinvented Islam as Islamism

How Mercenary Jurists Betrayed Islam: And Reinvented Islam as Islamism

Terebessy, Leslie

Paperback

IslamGeneral EducationInternational Relations

ISBN13: 9798279256556
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 21 2025
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The umma is experiencing trials. This is due in part to the corruption of the knowledge. The knowledge of revelation was corrupted by exegesis catering to hawkish rulers. Allah said He does not alter the condition of people until they alter what is in themselves. (Quran, 13:11) But the umma deteriorated. It would seem that the umma altered what was inside it. The umma turned from the Book of Allah to traditions. The turn corrupted knowledge. The turn also brought backwardness. Knowledge was corrupted by efforts to provide a justification for unlawful wars of aggression to enlarge the empire. The effort presented jihad al-talab as a pillar of Islam. Ensuring the rule of Islam everywhere required embarking upon the war of the dar al-Islam against the dar al-harb. This misperception requires attention. For embarking upon the warpath embroiled the umma in wars with non-Muslims in an epic clash of empires. Pushback brought setbacks in France in 732, at Baghdad in 1258 and at Vienna in 1529 and 1683. Bellicosity of Islamists is still embroiling them in wars. Reformers recommend rethinking the epistemology in the renewal of the umma. For the epistemology utilized in any enquiry affects it reliability. For every approach rests on a set of presuppositions. These are stated or unstated. They are known as the principles of exegesis and jurisprudence. These rules are expected to ensure that research produces reliable results, in harmony with the teaching of revelation. But because of politics, the reverse transpired. Exegetes read into revelation what is not there and at times fail to read what is there. Exegetes turned the teaching of reconciliation into its reverse, a teaching of war. This was a catastrophe. We are living with its legacy to this day. Exegesis and jurisprudence justified acts prohibited in revelation, for example resorting to terror. Exegesis and jurisprudence provided justification for despotism and the trampling of personal rights and freedoms. Because revelation is the truth from your Lord, the principles of exegesis and jurisprudence require being extracted from revelation. Regrettably, because of politics, a few of these rules were derived from tradition rather than from revelation. Regrettably, traditionalist exegesis and jurisprudence are tainted by failing to uphold the pre-eminence of revelation in relation to all tradition. They are tainted by kufr and shirk. Kufr is reflected in rejection of the characteristics of Book of Allah, its clarity, being fully detailed and free of contradictions. For traditionalist and Islamist exegetes insist, contrary to the teaching of revelation, that the Book of Allah is in parts unclear, insufficiently detailed and even contradictory. Exegetes and jurists use these perceptions to justify recourse to traditions to clarify and detail revelation. They use the mischaracterization of revelation as contradictory to justify recourse to the teaching of abrogation. The rejection of key verses encompasses the rejection of all verses that teach that we will never find a change in the words of Allah. This precludes recourse to the teaching of abrogation. Kufr is also reflected in treating all abrogated verses as no longer true. The teaching of abrogation is a beckoning to kufr. Traditions are treated a revelation. This is tantamount to a fabrication of revelation. It is also an expression of shirk. Transmitters of traditions are treated lawgivers. Treating transmitters of traditions as lawgivers encroaches on the pre-eminence of Allah as the sole Lawgiver in religion. A further problem is the abrogation of revealed verses by traditions. Traditions abrogated and replaced revealed rulings on adultery and apostasy. Revealed rulings were replaced by rulings from traditions. This is also shirk. The enforcement of these punishments, furthermore, requires the perpetration of crime.

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