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42 What sort of reforms do you suggest
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in Islam to adapt to the today s
world? Can we adopt a thousand
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years old religious model?
slam does not need reform; it needs revival. The
Iauthentic text of the Quran is available and needs no
alteration or correction. The only need is to re-interpret
Quranic teachings in the modern idiom.
Some Muslims scholars consider Islam to be a complete
socio-political system, which is the root cause of many
problems. Islam is a religion of individual following and
not of forceful implementation of a particular system or
state in society.
43 Should I be Shia or Sunni?
t depends on an individual’s freedom of choice. A
Iperson should do self-study and follow the conclusion
he arrives at after a thorough analysis.
Every religion has a set of basic tenets and some differing
non-basic tenets. In case of Shia and Sunni, differences
are only in matters of non-basic tenets. It is extremism
in non-basic matters which usually causes confrontation.
The basic tenets of the oneness of God and belief in the
Quran as a revealed divine message are common across
different schools of thought in Islam.
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