Page 47 - Islam Denounces Terrorism

Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya) 45

Almighty God refers to 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 means eminent religious figures living at any time producing
commandments regarding Sharia law on the basis of deductive
analogy.) Since the Qur'an was not the guide of most of them, they
were smothered by thousands of fabricated hadiths and they final-
ly decided that "neither the Qur'an nor the hadiths could properly
explain the commandments." After a while some of the aforemen-
tioned "religious leaders" began producing laws in the name of

Islam.

The schools began clashing with one another, and the agree-
ments of the Muslim communities came into conflict with those of
other schools. Every so-called "religious leader's" own interpreta-
tion was regarded as law, each community based itself on a differ-
ent set of practices and the whole community of Islam began split-
ting up into sects, classes and finally tiny groups. The Qur'an, how-
ever, was left hung up on the wall, still inside its case. As a result, a
large part of the Islamic world "abandoned and ignored the
Qur'an."

Looking at some of the opponents of Islam, we see that their
problem is quite ironically the same as that of the peddlers of super-

stition: They do not learn about Islam from the Qur'an. Just like the
peddlers of superstition, they concentrate on fabricated hadiths,
superstitious traditions and interpretations of Islam by some reli-
gious leaders that are generally incompatible with the Qur'an. In