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**Ferkilort** · 08-20-2011, 09:41 AM

Well his take is that muslims are all one community and we cant divide eachother into groups, whatever mess we are in is all of us together. So i think keeping in mind the limits of Shariah, he is saying new ideas can be looked at, and as long as shariah is not violated we can take them and the modernist, we should not eliminate them and i guess open doors to them and take them on board, we dont have to side them on something haram , but we can address their issues and whatever falls within shariah we should accept it. This is what i have got so far from his approach, i can be wrong too. He just doesnt want division and we have a spectrum now, where we have one extreme which is hesitant to open up to new ideas and we have another extreme which is just taking anything and everything from the western ideologies and way of life. He is trying to slow it all down and trying the two extremes to merge and come somewhere in the middle which would be within Shariah. Allah knows best. Best thing is to keep HusneDhan, untill he openly declares something Halal which is definitely Haram.

Thats fair. But out of caution when I recommend his lectures to family and friends, I always make a distinction between his old and new ones, because I fear that unless one has a strong understanding of Islam they might get confused with his new way of saying certain things.

08-20-2011, 09:41 AM	#29
Ferkilort Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 422 Senior Member	Well his take is that muslims are all one community and we cant divide eachother into groups, whatever mess we are in is all of us together. So i think keeping in mind the limits of Shariah, he is saying new ideas can be looked at, and as long as shariah is not violated we can take them and the modernist, we should not eliminate them and i guess open doors to them and take them on board, we dont have to side them on something haram , but we can address their issues and whatever falls within shariah we should accept it. This is what i have got so far from his approach, i can be wrong too. He just doesnt want division and we have a spectrum now, where we have one extreme which is hesitant to open up to new ideas and we have another extreme which is just taking anything and everything from the western ideologies and way of life. He is trying to slow it all down and trying the two extremes to merge and come somewhere in the middle which would be within Shariah. Allah knows best. Best thing is to keep HusneDhan, untill he openly declares something Halal which is definitely Haram. Thats fair. But out of caution when I recommend his lectures to family and friends, I always make a distinction between his old and new ones, because I fear that unless one has a strong understanding of Islam they might get confused with his new way of saying certain things.
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