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Sunday, October 9, 2011

Iqraq

The Muslims believe that the first word ever revealed to Prophet Muhammad was IQRAQ (read). I am sure this was done for a reason. So READ, and understand what we are talking about. To scream and shout, “You know nothing about Islam. You are not learned. Go learn from an ustaz,” is not good enough. Even those ustaz you are talking about do not read those three books I mentioned above.

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

There are some who say that those who know nothing about a subject matter should not be talking about it. I can agree with that. But then it all depends on what you mean by ‘know nothing’.

Maybe there are some who don’t know how the Islamic Shariah laws should be applied or interpreted. This is because they are not judges or lawyers. But then, they could be historians and they know their history very well. And because of that, they know the HISTORY of the Shariah. Which means they are certainly qualified to talk about the Shariah from the historical aspect of those laws.

Therefore, to tell a historian to stop talking about the Shariah because he or she is not trained in Islamic laws is not quite correct. If this historian not only knows the history of the Shariah but is also lecturing about it in one of the universities, this makes him or her more than qualified to talk about it.

For Muslims and non-Muslims alike, I would like to recommend you to buy and read just three of the many books I have in my library. These books are:

ISLAM AND THE SECULAR STATE (NEGOTIATING THE FUTURE OF SHARI’A) by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im (Harvard University Press)

THE MANY FACES OF POLITICAL ISLAM (RELIGION AND POLITICS IN THE MUSLIM WORLD) by Mohammed Ayoob (National University of Singapore)

A HISTORY OF ISLAMIC LAW by N. J. Coulson (Edinburgh University Press)

These three books will suffice for now to be able to make you an ‘expert’ on the Shariah. I can recommend another dozen more books if you are still ‘hungry’ for more knowledge.

The Muslims believe that the first word ever revealed to Prophet Muhammad was IQRAQ (read). I am sure this was done for a reason. So READ, and understand what we are talking about. To scream and shout, “You know nothing about Islam. You are not learned. Go learn from an ustaz,” is not good enough. Even those ustaz you are talking about do not read those three books I mentioned above.

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