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Posted: 22 August 2005 at 10:11am |
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I have read a lot and heard a lot about the concept of Allah being the only soverign. This is radical thinking really compared to the other faiths, as they don't state that Allah is the soverign over man. I understand the rationale behind Allah being soverign, basically that man can only be equal under the tutelege of Allah, no man can rule over another man. But there is a fundamental problem within Islam as I see it, and its not with the Qu'ran or Muhammed but Shari'a. First in order to understand this problem we have to get a grasp on what soverignty means, soverignty is basically the authority over a plot of land to which the people of that land has alotted the powers of the state to rule, maintain public order, and protect the population. Thus a fundamental contradiction occurs, Shari'a it usurps Allah as soverign. Muslims should know that Shari'a is not from divine revelation, meaning that it was an Islamic innovation created after the Prophethood. Since Allah does not actually pass his soverign controls of justice to man, how can man pretend to have this power? As I wrote in this thread:
http://www.islamicity.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1978& ; ;PN=1&TPN=2 Indeed, the only way one can live a truly moral life if is one lives in a society with radical freedom, which means God's soverignty in Islamic terms. Radically free conjures up many images of people in a "state of nature" as Thomas Hobbes coined it, but to believe that is to truly have a lack of faith not only in your fellow man but in Allah. Faith, not law binds the society together, and faith not punishment would guide people's lives. To be a moral person means this as I wrote in my Shari'a contradiction essay:
This is the only way man can be morally good, to do good and avoid bad if man knows that it is wrong to do, not because he fears retribution for his actions. Opinions? Edited by nico |
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