How to react if your so called comrades suddenly highlight the issue which seems to be conflicting like pluralism? or even liberalism? say the ISSUE OF HUDUD for example...
yes.. we are amongst the Islamic activists but we cant imposed our values to our nonmuslim comrades..
yes... we are aware of the notion..." let us start from our "common things" then what will happen if we are at the conflicting junctures?
Quite often we will bump into our relatives who simply refuse to join family events like tahlil, insist that female circumcision is haram and starts labelling people as "sesat"
Just sharing these 20 principles outlined by Islam as described by AlShaiykh Yusuf Qardawi in his book of
Sakhsiyah Al-‘Am Al-Islamiyyah , 2000, Maktabah Wahbah, p.144.. and had been elaborated by Tan Sri Prof Kamal Hassan in his class..
i found it useful for us beginners at least to understand with the stands taken by certain Islamic movement when dealing with our recent "conflicts" in Malaysia... like the wahabi issues, mazhab issues, pleuralism issues, hudud etc....
I have classified them in accordance to level of individual, action , organisation for better understanding
**** AND WHAT BEING RECOMMENDED BY iSLAM IS to advocate the middle stance and balance between the two extremes... (AlBaqarah, 2:143)
Level 
 | 
  
Area 
 | 
  
Issues 
 | 
 
Mindset 
 | 
  
Halal walharam 
 | 
  
Extreme in forbidding  
Exaggerate in permitting 
 | 
 
Reality 
 | 
  
Ignores obstacles and dangers 
Overly pessimistic  and do not anticipate the break of dawn 
 | 
 |
Reality 
 | 
  
 Absorb in the present matters without
  thinking of the future 
Talk about the future without
  dealing with present matters 
 | 
 |
Result Orientation 
 | 
  
 Pick up before ripe enough 
Neglect even it is ripe and has
  fallen into the hands of others 
 | 
 |
Fiqh (maqasid shari’ah) 
 | 
  
 Disregard the established reveal texts  by claiming in order to accommodate the
  maqasid shaariah 
Disregard the general objective
  of divine law (maqasid shaariah) in the name of accommodating the revealed
  text. 
 | 
 |
 Alkalam (aql) versus Annas 
 | 
  
Those who use logic and aqal  even it goes against the conclusive nash(qati’e) 
Those who use nash only without
  referring to logic 
 | 
 |
Fiqh :Tashaddud versus tasahul 
 | 
  
Tashaddud in brances  
Tasahul even in the principles 
 | 
 |
Mazhab  
 | 
  
Strict adherence of
  jurisprudence school 
Loose adherence 
 | 
 |
Tasawwuf and bidaah 
 | 
  
Support tasawwuf despite in
  areas with clear innovation(bidaah) 
Oppose tasawwuf even in areas
  that are proper and abiding to shariah 
 | 
 |
Philosophy 
 | 
  
Idealist versus realist 
 | 
  
Idealists who hardly concern
  the reality 
Realist who do not believe or
  have in lofty moral ideals. 
 | 
 
Individualism and collectivism
  ( liberalism versus marxism) 
 | 
  
Bestow the values of individual
  at the expense of society 
Bestow the values of society at
  the expense of society 
 | 
 |
Action 
 | 
  
 Level  
 | 
  
Advocates worldwide without
  regarding local conditions and environment 
Advocates narrow regional
  actions with no global or world connection 
 | 
 
Organisation 
 | 
  
Those who regard it as sacred
  and idolized it 
Totally abandon the need to
  work in organised manner 
 | 
 |
politics 
 | 
  
Expense of education (
  tarbiyah) 
Focus on tarbiyah with total
  negligence of politics 
 | 
 |
Organisation /individual 
 | 
  
Extremism ( ghulluw) accussing
  others as kafir 
AlMutasahhilun over tolerance even
  in the matter of apostasy 
 | 
 |
Organisation/individual 
 | 
  
Advocates opening up to the
  world ( al-infithah) without any constraint 
Advocates of locking oneself in
  without justification 
 | 
 |
Heritage  
 | 
  
Regarded as sacred eventhough
  human failures are evident in it 
Disregards the heritage even it
  shows the signs of hidayah 
 | 
 
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