tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171109115213682080.post5364123190427663666..comments2024-03-21T17:28:17.997+08:00Comments on anas zubedy: Open the Gates of Ijtihad, Closed Since 1258: Egyptian Leader Calls For Reformation in Islam By Claude Salhani - New Age Islamanas zubedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08461600313710822294noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1171109115213682080.post-12693959574191149502014-02-10T01:42:59.343+08:002014-02-10T01:42:59.343+08:00But Anas, The gate of ijtihad so called closed was...But Anas, The gate of ijtihad so called closed was never closed. You can read it in Wael B Hallaq's paper "Is the Gate of Ijtihad closed?" even if you read books by Khaled Abou El Fadl "Islamic Laws of rebellion and violence" you can see the religious leader of the age have grappled, transform and discuss, and mediate many different forces at different era and age. With the result of having the most humanistic treatment towards rebels that even western world could not offer in this modern world. There is a problem with a muslim and the muslim scholars but I don't think the gate of ijtihad is the problem. I come to believe that the main problem of the muslim are those who doesn't even care the islamic tradition that they have sought not look at it and there is another group that portray themselves are holding the tradition but have respect to engage with it. God gave the muslim the one book which gave birth to thousands of book, but muslim today forsake those book for the only the one book without realizing that the thousands book is result of 1400 years worth of research. As such, needs to be respect, engage, and mediate and add on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com