Implications for contemporary religious discourse

Principles

• inviting to the path of AlLah with wisdom (al-Hikmah) 

            argue with them with the best of arguments

• 9th 11 the western powers has irked the Muslim countries to review not only the religious discourse of Islamic dakwah but the education curricula. westers's intellectual arrogance,condescencion, anti Islamic prejudice because no such demands are made on the anti-Islamic religious discourses of the jews  and the christians, neo0conservative christians fundamentalist, zionist christions and zionist jews.

• because the discourse is a matter of mutaghayyirah principkesm it needs to be continously improved, renewed and corrected not because of foreign pressures but because it is dictated by the Islamic norm of tajdid and the need to sustain the justly balanced spirit of Islam and the Muslim Umah
• ummatic changes :

justly balanced

contribute positively to inter religious and inter civilisation understanding

amongst  the hikmah : 

1) to use the word of  nonmuslim instead of kuffar in addressing adherents of other religions esp the people of the book, the use of the word almuwatinun citizen instaed of kafir harb

• 15 guidelines

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1	faith	Only God, sustainer without denying the importance , the honour , thi dignity , the freedom and the rights of man Spiritual crises. Abundance of material comforts with deprivation of spiritual components Divine  revelations and conveys the truth in creed, religious obligations, laws, ethics, concepts and traditions
2	Intergration ulum naqliyh and aqliyah	The compatibility of “the uncontaminated intellect” and “ the true revealed knowledge” as described by AlGhazali ·        problems are  due to lack of sound intellect and useful knowledge of world and nature ·        Problems from  strangehold of impulses, beliefs in the supernatural powers of black magics, ignorance of superficial religious  teachers
3	Balance btwn inner core of religion which spiritual (aljanib arruh) and outer  which material dimension (aljanib almaddi)	Purifications of heart  from false beliefs and diseases “almuhlikat”  ( eg pridem self admiration, deception, love of the world, love of wealth, love of fame, excessive anger, jealousy and hatred)
4	Fulfilment of religious obligations	Solat, fasting, zakat, hajj , good conducts and ethical behavioural are frutis of right belief Balance btw being pious  and conduct in the ares of human relations and worldly dealings and transactions Conduct akhlaq in academic, alakhalq alimiyyah-alfardhiyyah, lausraiyyaha, society –ijtimayyah, alsiyasiyah, economic I’tisadiyyah
5	tawheed	Comprehensive, unadulterated
6	Being religious in every aspects	Self-families, society and nations
7	Strive for seriousness, purity, constancy,path of righteousness Moral rectitude, upholding justice, combattng evil desire  etc
8	Universalism of Islamic message	“Global village “ revolution in information and communication technology,,  current globalisation that has been used to extend the economic and cultural hegemonies of powerful western forces… Globalisation can  be a well-orchestrated  “new imperialism” and a new emergence of “new world order” The threats that can undermined  traditional religious values and institutions
9	contemporaneity	Up to date  in all possible developments, philosophical , discourse, technologies, intellectual currents , behaviouralism  Islamic discourse does not and can not live in the past The views have to keep abreast with the changing circumstances.. However, it s reneweaal, flexibility, openness should not be influenced by the ultra liberal spirit . the discourse  has to clign to its al-soolah  authenticity which is grounded I Quran ic theology,epistemology, law and ethics
10	Future oriented
11	Principle of finding easy solution  supported by ALquran and Sunna
12	Ijtihad	Call for wider use of ijtihad without transgressing against the well-established doctrines, principles, laws and institutions of Islam
13	Reject forbidden terrorism Support legitimate jihad	The best jihads os the convey the word of truth before an unjust ruler Ibnu qayyim divides jihas ito thirteen categoriesn, four (self), 3 (injustice) 4(disbelievers and hypocrites Clean  the wrong conceptions of  radical militant muslims Correct the misconception that the genuine defenders of their land nd honour are terrorists
14	Female	Complementary, equal rights
15	Protection of ethnic minorities