July 14,2012
Need for Critical Calm Discourse upon Islamic Ethics
by Dr Ahmad Farouk Musa*
"Principles can be immutable, absolute, as well as eternal, though their implementations in time or in historyhistorical modelsare relative, becoming different as well as in constant mutation. Thus, a beliefs of justice, equality, rights as well as tellurian society that guided a Prophet of Islam indeed sojourn a references beyond history, though a indication of a city of Medina founded by Muhammad in a seventh century is a chronological realization related to a realities as well as mandate of his time.
Muslims must, in a course of history,try to sojourn true to those beliefs as well as essay to practice them as best they can according to a mandate of their time though they cannot merely imitate, reproduce, or transcribe a chronological indication that was blending for a particular time though no longer corresponds to a mandate of their own."-Tariq Ramadan in Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics as well as Liberation, p.19
While a universe continues to evolve, we have been witnessing one of a many critical developments in a Muslim world. The climb of AKP in Turkey, a en-Nahdah or Renaissance Party in Tunisia, a Freedom as well as Justice Party in Egypt as well as al-Adl wal-Ihsan in Morocco have been fundamentally a re-emergence of Islamism with a new face as well as a new spiri! t.
It would not be a sum exaggeration to portray it as a re-emergence of a rationalist school of thought or well known formerly as a mu'tazilites in a Islamic world. As a rationalists believed that one of God's consequential attributes is justice, hence man contingency have free will. Man contingency utilize his God-given expertise of reason to interpret in between right as well as wrong as well as to establish justice.
And since God is absolutely just, He would not reward or retaliate his creatures 
without reason. Human would receive reward in heaven or low mark in ruin as a result of their free choice. Anyone who believes in a only God had to accept that man is a creator of his deeds.
The rationalism of a Mu'tazilites led them to interpretation that God, as well as thus, His universe, operated according to receptive laws, a premise that called upon systematic inquiry. From this, emerged a systematic boom of a Medieval Islamic world, a zenith was a investiture of Bait al-Hikmah or House of Wisdom.
Another critical theological basis for a Mu'tazilites was that a Qur'an was combined that lead to a interpretative conclusion that a Qur'an can be "interpreted" as well as NOT merely "implemented" or "applied".
This verbatim interpretation of a Qur'an is mainly a basis for a current predominantly literalist or Salafist trend in a Muslim world. Because of this literalist trend, many Muslims have been trapped in a Medinan State judgment or as what was referred to by a venerable Prof Tariq Ramadan in his book Radical Reform, obsession with models rsther than than principles.
Basically Muslims require thinking, as well as reth! inking a gain about this critical agenda. Man contingency be means to practice God given receptive expertise in order to face a challenges of modernity. And this forms a basis of reform that we aspire to.
"I desire zero though reform (al-Islah) as far as we am able. There is no guidance for me except from Allah" [Surah Hd 11: 88]
*Dr Ahmad Farouk Musa is Chairman as well as Director,Islamic Renaissance Front (IRF). This is a content of his Speech during Tariq Ramadan Hi-Tea Event "Rethinking Islamic Reform" during a Renaissance Hotel, Kuala Lumpur upon Jul 14, 2012.
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