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Roots of Polytheistic Tendencies in Islamism: Retrieving Authentic Islam

Roots of Polytheistic Tendencies in Islamism: Retrieving Authentic Islam

Terebessy, Leslie

Paperback

General Education

ISBN13: 9798470297945
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 3 2021
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Revelation provides knowledge that is not accessible by unassisted reason. Revelation explains reality and the purpose of existence. We are to acquire wisdom. We are endowed with the freedom of the will, although a few ulama affirm determinism. We are also endowed with reason. We are expected to use them. Yet Islamists endeavour to eradicate reason as well as freedom. That is treason. They are bereft of reason and despotic. They present a threat to public safety and require being restrained by persuasion or the law if required. Revelation teaches that there is a difference between right and wrong, true and false, justice and injustice, and good and evil. Persons without knowledge assert that these differences are subjective. They have an aversion to truth. In insisting that there is no universal ethics, whether revealed or acquired by reason. The justify everything. They treat every expression of degeneration as a lifestyle. Everything is permitted. They tolerate unethical practices. *Persons that argue that we should move past the differences between differences in ethics are deluded. They are responsible to for the perpetration of endless crimes. They act upon impulse. They are in the dark and remain there. True enlightenment is from revelation understood by reason. Allah is the Truth, the Reality. To reject Truth is to reject Allah. It is to fall into confusion. Islamists that perpetrate brutality in the enforcement of their perception of reality require being restrained. For they practice repression disguised as piety. Islam is an Abrahamic faith. Islam is an extension of the Judeo-Christian tradition. It teaches monotheism. But is Islamism also Abrahamic? For Islamism is political Islam. Is Islamism also monotheistic? The answer is no, it is not. For the transformation of Islam into Islamism required an encroachment of tauhid. This is reflected in treating tradition as revelation. This is shirk. The transformation of Islam into Islamism also entailed a rejection of key teachings of Islam. These encompass the teachings that revelation is clear, fully detailed and coherent. Islamists reject all three of these characteristics of revelation. This reflects kufr. Islamism is tainted with expressions of shirk and kufr. The transformation of Islam into Islamism was prompted by politics. Bellicose rulers engaged jurists to reinterpret revelation to justify wars of aggression. We perceive the results of these practices in the wars in different parts of the world. Islamists set the umma on a warpath against non-Muslims. This is propelled by the aspiration to establish a paradise on the earth or Islamic caliphate. They are willing to perpetrate terror to reach their ends. This requires jihad al-talab or wars of territorial enlargement between the dar al-Islam and the dar al-harb. But wars of aggression are prohibited in revelation. Jurists furnished their rulers what they wanted: a justification for the perpetration of wars of aggression in enlarging the empire. Islamist jurists rendered permissible what Alah prohibited, even turned jihad al-talab into a pillar of Islam. But the transformation of Islam into Islamism entailed tampering with the teaching of revelation. It required the politicization of revelation. This also required the politicization of exegesis and jurisprudence. Islamism is not just un-Islamic; it is anti-Islamic. It endorses and practices repression presented as piety. Recourse to tradition also required a justification. This was furnished by the perception that tradition, too, is revelation. Treating tradition as revelation, however, enabled the emergence of the teaching of dual revelation. But is a duality of revelation possible without affirming a duality of divinity? Islamists encroached upon tauhid further when they treated tradition as possessing the authority to judge, abrogate, and replace parts of revelation. But in Islam, legislation is the exclusive prerogative of Allah.

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