What is the obligation of Muslims toward the modernists?
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Question:
Modernism is a materialist intellectual methodology that Islam rejects. What is the obligation of Muslims toward this methodology? Is this destructive call an intellectual and literary methodology, as the modernists claim, or is it a comprehensive intellectual methodology for life? Please inform us, may Allah reward you with the best reward.
Answer:
The ruling on this new modernist school is the same as the ruling on other forms of what is wrong. As far as we know of the modernists, they have new, strange, and complex methods. They intended by them to deceive—deceiving people—and to call to falsehood in a disguised, wrapped manner that not everyone notices.
Therefore, the modernists must be opposed, and their falsehood and error must be clarified. It is not permissible to allow them to publish; because they are misguiders who call to fighting the Shari'ah, denying everything old, and for a person to be free to do whatever he wishes without being bound by the Qur'an or the Sunnah, but rather like a beast that has nothing to restrain it from its mind and knowledge. These are the likes of those: [Al-Furqan:44].
It is not a literary school, but it is a materialist school, a school of disbelief, a misguided and misguiding school that must be eradicated.
Modernism is a materialist intellectual methodology that Islam rejects. What is the obligation of Muslims toward this methodology? Is this destructive call an intellectual and literary methodology, as the modernists claim, or is it a comprehensive intellectual methodology for life? Please inform us, may Allah reward you with the best reward.
Answer:
The ruling on this new modernist school is the same as the ruling on other forms of what is wrong. As far as we know of the modernists, they have new, strange, and complex methods. They intended by them to deceive—deceiving people—and to call to falsehood in a disguised, wrapped manner that not everyone notices.
Therefore, the modernists must be opposed, and their falsehood and error must be clarified. It is not permissible to allow them to publish; because they are misguiders who call to fighting the Shari'ah, denying everything old, and for a person to be free to do whatever he wishes without being bound by the Qur'an or the Sunnah, but rather like a beast that has nothing to restrain it from its mind and knowledge. These are the likes of those:
Or do you think that most of them hear or reason? They are not except like livestock. Rather, they are [even] more astray in [their] way.
أَمْ تَحْسَبُ أَنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ يَسْمَعُونَ أَوْ يَعْقِلُونَ إِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا كَالْأَنْعَامِ بَلْ هُمْ أَضَلُّ سَبِيلًاIt is not a literary school, but it is a materialist school, a school of disbelief, a misguided and misguiding school that must be eradicated.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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