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Islam and the Quran
63 Is Wahhabism true Islam?
o, it is not Islam. Wahhabism is extremism and
Nextremism is not permitted in Islam. An example of
this extremism is that there were several houses of the
Companions of the Prophet in Makkah and Madinah,
the most important one being that of Hazarat Khadija in
Makkah where the Prophet had spent his early life. People
used to visit these places to experience the early history
of Islam and the life of the Prophet. When Wahhabis
came into power, they razed down these houses on the
plea that people would start holding these places sacred
or associating sanctity to them. The Wahhabis thought
that such sacred veneration of objects other than God
was equivalent to shirk or associating partners with God.
This they believed would go contrary to monotheism, or
the belief in the oneness of God.
However, in razing down these houses, the Wahhabis
deprived future generations of Muslims from having an
experiential realization of prophetic history which they
would have gained by seeing these historic places.
64 Is democracy unlawful in Islam?
emocracy is completely Islamic. Let me share two
Dreferences. According to the Quran, believers are those
who conduct their affairs by mutual
consultation. (Quran 42:38)
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