It was a rare event, because most of those present declare each other deviant and prefer not to offer prayers behind or besides each other. But this gathering proved that only reactionary religiosity can bring them together because it was a joint concern as all the interpretations, monopolization over religious knowledge and sectarianism was being challenged, that certainly can lead to their sectarian shops being closed down and they becoming out of fashion.
Otherwise no such joint consultation, unity or shared platform can be witnessed for issues of joint concern like ecology, sectarian strifes, domestic violence, terrorism, state sponsored terrorism and lack of democracy in the Muslim world. Javed Ahmad Ghamidi is a Pakistani scholar, living in exile in Malaysia due to the death threats he continues to receive because of his alternative interpretations of Islam or maybe because his critics have failed to answer them, as bullet is the last answer of the person who has lost the argument.
This article is not written to justify or nullify the religious interpretation of Ghamidi but to defend his right to interpret religion. Every speaker at the event in his speech exposed himself about their secondary source reading about Ghamidi as their speeches were a testimony that they were not acquainted with the primary sources i. Further belittling Ghamidi by stating that he is not well versed in religious sciences and has not read in a madrasa was a lame criticism because many stalwarts of Islamic Revivalist movements like Syed Abul Ala Mawdudi, Hassan al Banna, Syed Qutb, Dr Ali Shariti and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan none has studied formally and completely in madrasas, but none doubts their Islamic credentials and contribution.
LONDON: Renowned religious scholar Professor Javed Ahmad Ghamidi, who is in the United Kingdom on an official tour for two weeks, has said that he is working on a project which is the most important project of his life and then he might return to his native country - Pakistan. He was talking to this correspondent at a reception hosted by Solicitor Advocate Moeen Khan and his wife at their residence in London.
Many more scholars, solicitors, community leaders and followers of Ghamidi school of thought were present at the occasion. The scholar said that he is living in United States for a few years to teach in Centre of Islamic Learning, "I also will help there to build an institution of modern thoughts in America.
This institution will also be a centre of learning for young people," he said. Javed Ahmad Ghamidi said that he will be in UK for tour of two weeks.
During this visit, Ghamadi, will deliver lectures in London, Birmingham, and Manchester. He also will meet some important scholars in UK.
A course by Dr. Shehzad Saleem comparing Farahi school understanding of selected passages of the Quran with the traditional understanding. The central focus of all our effort must be to understand the deen of Allah — the way it is — and to teach others the same. Ghamidi is a researcher and a critical thinker who has challenged many aspects of the traditional Muslim schools of thought on the basis of evidence from Quran and sunnah. Get Started. Built into his interpretive model is his pronounced emphasis on the exercise of reason.
He is eclectic, original, and rationalist in his philosophic vision. At the same time, his reasoning does not do away entire with the classic Islamic heritage. His most famous books Al-Bayan, Al-Burhan, and Mizaan, and Maqamaat are an attempt to re-interpret and reconstruction the religious thought of Islam by bringing into conversation all the classic Islamic discourse with the modern social sciences of the West.
His reformism rests on the ability of Islam to negate the temptations of intellectual stagnation. To him, rationalism as a model of reasoning is inevitable for the survival of a reformist project in the contemporary world. Rationalism in the philosophic calculus of Ghamidi, is the rigorous exercise of reason to understand and to interpret the tradition. In his book Mizaan Ghamidi differentiated religion from the religious thought.
Religion, Ghamidi argued, is a comprehensive divine program revealed by God to attain spiritual enlightenment from within. This spiritual awakening and cleansing is attained by carrying out the injunctions of God and his Prophets. On the other hand, religious thought is an endeavour on part of human beings to understand and interpret this revelatory experience. As understood, the interpretation allows for the room to disagree; consequently, it will give rise to a multitude of schools and systems of knowledge.
Put in a different way, this interpretive room for understanding the revelatory experience is an acknowledge of human agency.
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