A crazy ( Pagal) man thinks every other person except him is Pagal.
Hud was Hud and man is man.
Although they could communicate each other.
Have you not seen the talking birds ?
Dear Raaz, if you study islam and muslims through out history, you will see that islam and muslims were questioned and answers were found. For example, there is very little that we know about the prophet regarding his makkan life because people were busy with other more important aspects of islam eg revelation of the quran and its propagation to begin the movement. Later people realised that they need to preserve information about prophet himself therefore they started collecting information but it was not as complete as they would have liked it to be. 13 years was a long time to remember each and every thing about the prophet. Mission totally depended upon the quran rather than the hadith. However, when muslims thought that some information about the prophet would also be good to have they started collecting ahadith. No special attention was paid to legal authenticity aspect of the hadith. This only became an issue when false reports begin to surface and people began to question things they were told about the prophet because they did not make sense to them. This is how chains of narrations became integral parts of reports. Then it was thought that even that was not enough so information about narrators was collected and scrutinized. By the time all this was done centuries passed so none could be 100% sure whatever was told as hadith was actually true or not. Therefore rules were devised by yet later people to separate at least those reports that did not meet the newly set criterion.
The other thing that happened along was formation of schools of fiqh because muslim state and its provinces needed laws to run the country. Thus need of doing things led to formation of things and we called them secondary sources of islam. These sources in no way are equal to the quran nor are as reliable hence need to be kept with the quran as subordinate sources.
What muslim kings and mullas did was gave these subordinate sources bigger or at least equal authority to the quran so that they could undermine the position of the quran. The reason they wanted to undermine the authority of the quran was to put make beliefs through as islam by inventing ahadith. This they could not do to the quran because that text was already finalized and preserved in life time of the prophet. Over a time even hadith text became finalised as well so no more inventions were possible even in the name of ahadith either.
This door was kept open by way of fiqh and fatwas to get what rulers and mullas wanted. This is how they managed to push out the proper quranic understanding and got ummah in to a mess. This is how deen was turned into mazhab and muslims in to mazhab parast people. The other thing people in power did was they dictated or enacted laws to keep that state of existence so that if anyone said anything against that he was in trouble. Thus people were slowly gagged from speaking out openly against what was going on. Thus what we have today as aqeedahs became permanently instilled in minds of muslims and real knowledge was suppressed.
Since the quran is intact and muslims who rise above these thing se the quran for what it is, they bring back the ideas of the quran but they are labelled heretics.
People like sir seyyed ahmed khan did not say anything really new by telling people not to go against natural world order. Because in the hadith scrutiny books it is written very clearly as a rule that not to accept any report as an hadith that is against the laws of nature. All sir seyyed did was to put two and two together and explain that supernatural events are impossible. It is because if natural world order is anything to go by then supernatural events cannot be accepted because that will be accepting the natural world order does not exist.
Likewise sir iqbal, simply realised that islam was not a religion but a rule of law that needed implementation to be benefited from. Iqbal understood sir seyyed's point and he knew he was right but he added another dimension and then parwez expanded on those ideas and that is all he did ie he explained islam in detail as a divine rule of law rather than a religious dogma and ritualism that benefiited none and could benefit none.
If we look at mawdoddi sb and other scholars eg dr israr and ghamdi etc they all realised that islam was a ruling system not just namaaz roza. However it was not easy to face public with those ideas in detail because masses lacked education and knew nothing about running state affairs. By disturbing masses one was looking for trouble and that is obvious how we are fighting against anyone who tries to tell us anything we hold as our strict belief.
Today things are a bit different because we have a lot more interaction between different people so at least we can talk about things regardless we like them or not.
My understanding of the quranic text therefore goes much beyond that of miracles and deen and mazhab. In my understanding the quran gives us rules of laws not just for one situation but a few eg a)when there is no islamic state, b)when there is, c)when people live in a nonmuslim state with which we have no treaty, d)with which we have a treaty, e)when we are persecuted, f)when we are not persecuted etc etc.
For example, if we have an islamic state and that it is well established then laws of inheritance become useless because they serve no purpose as private property is not allowed in that case beyond a set limit. Hoarding and profiteering etc no longer can be a problem because state admin runs the state by keeping land and resources under its own control and it ought to keep these things open for all citizens of the state to benefit from. Everyone is supposed to be working together for the good of all others according to mutually agreed plan.
Marriage and divorce become contractual agreements under state law, food and drink or clothing become privat affair unless they relate to state affairs in any aspect that make them public or state business.
Surah AL-NISAA- does not mean women but communities. In this suarah we are told our rights and responsibilities regarding each other in the name of Allah. We are supposed to deliver goods=rights to each and every member of our community. 4/2-3 are not about orphans but individuals in the community and their rights. They are not about marrying women but about organizing our communities and appointing able individuals from amongst us to serve our communities when there is no islamic state. The idea is to bring about one for ourselves by working together. The quran gives us blue print for working towards an islamic state in surah al nisa.
One can see how dangerous this was for muslim kings and rulers that is why they mistranslated the quran and misinterpreted it because had they not twisted minds they could no way rule muslims. It is because the quran forbids muslims to live like a dead meat.
The verses which are translated as forbidding us foods are actually not at all about food but certain states of existence that are forbidden for us as a people appointed some tasks by Allah ie it is forbidden for you to live like a dead people, or to live by sucking blood of other people, or to live like pigs ie on dirt and sweat of others. Raising flag of other than Allah in the land ie living by rule of law of other than that of Allah eg see 2/173 in this context and see what you get.
Muslims kings if we look at history lived of other people. Muslim businessmen looted their own people, blood of poor muslims is sucked out by powerful muslims with their conscious clear that they are not doing anything wrong. This was the purpose rich and powerful wanted to achieve by misinterpreting the quranic verses that stopped them from doing these things. This is why they spent so much money on building masaajid and put in there their chosen mullas to brain wash masses and create new generations of mullas fully brain washed.
So mistranslations and misinterpretations of the quran are not limited only to things like hudhud bird or human. It will take time before real message of the quran is fully rediscovered and realised. So long as people are kept from thinking ruling elite amongst muslims is safe and muslim masses are also safe in hands of their loved mullas.
To me the quran is not a book of myths but of realities to bring changes to the world for the good of mankind. I am only doing what I think is right just as you are doing what you think is right. Allah is the only judge we both will have to trust. May he guide us all to the path that is firmly founded.
regards and all the best.
