Page 23 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

fatwas deduced from personal convictions and sometimes from
traditional erroneous practices. This is a completely misguided ver-
sion of Islam based on ancient superstitions and includes almost no

Qur'anic provisions. In other words, the Islam we encounter in many
places today is a dramatically different religion than the one
described in the Qur'an and that was lived at the time of our Prophet
(pbuh). Our Prophet (pbuh) complains to Almighty God of the state

into which the Islamic world has fallen as follows in the Qur'an:
The Messenger says, "My Lord, my people treat this Qur'an as

something to be ignored." (Qur'an, 25:30)
Indeed, the problem of a large part of the Islamic world today is
that people regard the Qur'an as a book that has been abandoned.

Once the Qur'an had been abandoned, it was time for "ijma."
(Ijma: Eminent religious figures living at any time producing com-
mandments regarding Sharia law on the basis of deductive analogy).

Since the Qur'an was not their guide they were smothered by thou-
sands of fabricated hadiths and they finally decided that "neither the
Qur'an nor the hadiths could properly explain the commandments."
These "religious leaders" began producing laws in the name of Islam.
The schools began clashing with one another, and the agreements of

the Muslim communities came into conflict with those of other
schools. Every "religious" leader's own interpretation was regarded
as law, each community based itself on a different set of practices
and the whole community of Islam began splitting up into sects,
classes and finally tiny groups. The Qur'an, however, was left as a
decorative item hung up on the wall, still inside its casing. As a

result, a large part of the Islamic world abandoned and ignored the
Qur'an. The bright world of the Qur'an, that fosters science and
development, that champions arts, democracy and secularism [free-

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