Tuesday, April 8, 2008
"Extremism"
While reading the essay written by Yusuf Al-Qaradawi on Islamic Extremism, I found one section particularly interesting. Al-Qardawi says that the negative aspects of extremism can be seen by looking back in history at the Christian and Jewish religions. "Muslims have therefor been warned not to follow in their steps: he who learns from the mistakes of others indeed lives a happier life" (pg. 197). I found this interesting as the Qur'an has passages in it telling the followers of Islam to look at other religions and learn from them. Even back when the Qur'an was being written people already knew that you could learn from history and that it would repeat itself if proper steps were not taken.
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Yousif al Qaradawi discussed the extremism of Islam. He thinks that a muslim should not be extremism because it has defects. He says that a person should not be extremism because . Each generation differs from the one before and by time each generation people become weaker than before. Al qaradawi also mention that the prophet advised muslims not to be overstrain themselves and to be moderate. IF they did they won’t satisfy the needs of the body and wife which he has to do because everything has a right so he has to equally give everyone his right. There are also concepts of the extremism religious. First it is unfair to indict a person of religion extremism but he can’t say that he is the best and all other people are wrong because that disagree with Islam. Muslims should not interpret the concepst of Islam as they want. They should fully understand the concepts and learn them
I can't say that I fully agree with some of those extremist ideas. I have never been a really serious person and I always try to take things lightly. I don't believe one needs to be an extremist to be a true Muslim. All religions have periods where their ideologies get a little "extreme" and they should try and learn as much from each other's situation as they can.
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