Methodology/Epistemology
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I’ve recently written on why I find the IMCA (Isnad-cum-Matn Analysis) and HCM (Historical-Critical Method) unreliable frameworks for hadith authentication from a Muslim perspective. The primary issue lies not in their mechanisms, but in their underlying assumptions. These methods begin with the premise that identifying a common link or tracing a narration to a specific
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Can Islamic Law Change Based on Time, Context and Custom? – Introduction This article is an academic response to the controversial subject of the changeability of Shari’i injunctions and certain rulings being based on the custom of the people of that time rather than the ruling being applied universally in all times and places. To
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Response to Shaykh Saeed Kamli: BISMILLAH Now the issue with Shaykh Saeed Kamli of Morocco is this, if the people that he is addressing actually said “I feel like this opinion or fatwa is wrong (without evidence)”, then he would certainly be correct to say “who cares about your feelings!”. This is how Allah makes
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I have written this before, and now this is the new edited version of it after coming across the new Fake Mahdi from the Yamani Ahmadi Religion Cult Bismillah During the period I was getting interested in religion, I was looking into different religions, schools of thought and scholars. Naturally, I even came across vile
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Mutashabihat in the Qur’an Acknowledgements I appreciate the work of Sayed Ali Hurr Kamunpoori from the Shi’a Reformist group Al-Islaah, it was he who has allowed me to understand this concept properly through his student, my friend Muhammad Qa’im al-Islaahi. I acknowledge the great works of the two giants of Qur’an-Centrism Hamiduddin al-Farahi & Amin
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I had to learn the language; a step for the revolution I had to burn in anguish to get to the resolution No circumlocution, I don’t like to mince words Truth hurts the instance that I wreck the illusion An effective solution is to return to the book But you look through the text in
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Refutation of qiyas (analogy in religion) by Ibn Hazm Ibn Hazm cites in refutation of qiyas include: Qur’an 42:21: “What! Have they partners (in godhead) who have established (sharau) for them some religion for which God has given no permission?;” Qur’an 65:1: “And any who transgresses the limits of God does verily wrong his (own)
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What is the “Deen”?! Our (the Muslim community’s) understanding of the Deen is that it means a complete methodology for life, i.e. a specific way of living, established upon the basis of a comprehensive Aqeedah (belief) concerning the universe, the human being and life; their relationship with what is prior to them (and that is
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Hadith Centrism It’s a clear pre-requisite for a true scholar or faqih to be a master of Hadith and the historical incidents pertaining to the life and stances of the Prophet Muhammad (s). Nevertheless, it is also evident that Hadith-centrism and Rijal-centrism and an excessive focus on the concept of sahih sanad (chains of transmission)
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Usul al-Fiqh: When Khabar Wahid contradicts the common practice – Usul al-Shashi (Hanafi principles) “Based upon this (that the conditions of narrators vary) we say that if Khabar Wahid contradicts the apparent it will not be practiced upon. An example of Khabar Wahid contradicting the apparent is when it is not the common practice of
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