04.06.2021
Kazan
The tags attached to the theologians of the past should be discarded-scientists are convinced
On 3rd of June 2021, at the presentation of the book series "Rebirth and Renewal" at Kazan Federal University, the first Deputy chairman of the Religious Board of Muslims of the Russian Federation, the rector of the Moscow Islamic Institute, the executive Secretary of the Muslim International Forum, Professor Damir Mukhetdinov, urged not to mark the Jadids and representatives of the reformist thought within the Islamic tradition.
"When we talk about the Jadids, modernists and neo-modernists, the ignorant people have such an understanding that this is something fashionable, Western and, in the end, Kafir. That these people want to reinterpret Islam, distort spirit, and lead Muslims to misunderstand the religion. Comrades who say such things, should you finally read at least the "Treatise on Monotheism" by Muhammad Abdo, the" Answer to the Materialists "by Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, to understand that these people have always stood guard over Islam and Islamic values," he said.
According to the speaker, both M. Abdo and J. al-Afghani "are imbued with the spirit of Islam from the core to the bone, and their entire lives have been dedicated to serving Islam and Muslims." "So that Muslims are competitive, so that their schools and science are in demand, so that from the point of view of theology, Muslims do not lag behind those who colonized and conquered them yesterday, and continue to carry the banner of Islam with dignity," concluded Professor D. Mukhetdinov.
Following D. Mukhetdinov, the head of the Department of Social and Humanitarian Disciplines of the Kazan branch of the Russian State University of Justice, Aidar Yuzeev, also called for not generalizing and discarding the marking of a pan-Islamist, hung on J. Al-Afghani.
"Al-Afghani understood and believed, unlike Abdo, that it is impossible to get rid of colonial oppression without the unification of Islam and came up with the idea of a caliphate. It was a necessity. He was therefore tagged as a pan-Islamist, although he was not a pan-Islamist at all, he turned to the Koran and the Sunnah and tried to adapt them to modern reality with the help of ijtihad. These tags should be discarded, as it was then the dictate of the time, " said Professor Aidar Yuzeyev.
"When we talk about the Jadids, modernists and neo-modernists, the ignorant people have such an understanding that this is something fashionable, Western and, in the end, Kafir. That these people want to reinterpret Islam, distort spirit, and lead Muslims to misunderstand the religion. Comrades who say such things, should you finally read at least the "Treatise on Monotheism" by Muhammad Abdo, the" Answer to the Materialists "by Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, to understand that these people have always stood guard over Islam and Islamic values," he said.
According to the speaker, both M. Abdo and J. al-Afghani "are imbued with the spirit of Islam from the core to the bone, and their entire lives have been dedicated to serving Islam and Muslims." "So that Muslims are competitive, so that their schools and science are in demand, so that from the point of view of theology, Muslims do not lag behind those who colonized and conquered them yesterday, and continue to carry the banner of Islam with dignity," concluded Professor D. Mukhetdinov.
Following D. Mukhetdinov, the head of the Department of Social and Humanitarian Disciplines of the Kazan branch of the Russian State University of Justice, Aidar Yuzeev, also called for not generalizing and discarding the marking of a pan-Islamist, hung on J. Al-Afghani.
"Al-Afghani understood and believed, unlike Abdo, that it is impossible to get rid of colonial oppression without the unification of Islam and came up with the idea of a caliphate. It was a necessity. He was therefore tagged as a pan-Islamist, although he was not a pan-Islamist at all, he turned to the Koran and the Sunnah and tried to adapt them to modern reality with the help of ijtihad. These tags should be discarded, as it was then the dictate of the time, " said Professor Aidar Yuzeyev.