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Interfaith Dialogue in Islam
text was interpreted by Bal Gangadhar Tilak to mean a
violent and concerted action to end injustice.

Religion is not a mathematical discipline; it is a subject of
humanities, which is open to interpretation. For example,
political science has more than ten interpretations of the
term ‘sovereign’ and ‘sovereignty’. Any subject that is
based on mathematics is less likely to have conflicting
interpretations, but this is not the same in disciplines
of humanities. For example, lawyers contest the same
case from two different perspectives based on the same
constitution.

9 Are Sunni books of Hadith more
authentic than Shia books of Hadith?

n the personal library of every Islamic scholar and
Iacademic (from any school of thought), all the books
of Hadith exist. It is not that a certain book of Hadith
is more authentic than another, the case is of certain
traditions being more authentic than others. Some
traditions have been repeated in many books of Hadith
in the same manner, while there are some accounts which
have been narrated by different people, differently.

The only difference between different scholars
throughout history has been their approach of validating
the authenticity of a hadith or a tradition of the Prophet.
Validating a hadith is an entirely different field in itself
and many books have been written on the subject.

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