The Message, whether it be the Torah, the Injeel (Bible) or the Quran, we acknowledge it as being from the One and only God we Muslims call Allah. In addition to revelation scholars of religion had always considered additional resources that they used to interpret, digest, or simply interact with the text. The difficulty in negotiating text, is that although it is from God, and it is believed to hold Universal Truth, it is also time bound, that is it came within a certain time period, era, social context, which it originally spoke to. Let us not imagine that the Torah didnt initially speak to the Israelites in Hebrew, or the Quran to the Arabs in Arabic. These groups were all people bound to a situation or contextual reality in which they directly or via their Messenger (May Gods Peace and Blessing be on them) understood the meaning of the text as it related to them. After that historical context disappeared, it became necessary for the text to be negotiated beyond the original context. Scholars therefore, tried as far as possible to look at the original context where documented, and by analogy extend the meaning to a similar contextual reality in present times because the text must also speak to us now. This was the sound approach in order to minimize errors in applying the meanings of the text. Interestingly, some scholars, who call themselves Quranist, appear to ignore the very basic nature of texts founded in TIME and arrogantly assume they can simply transport meaning into the text directly from their own social context which whose origins they often FAIL TO ACKNOWLEDGE! How dumb is that?
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 19:36:16 +0000
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