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     | Wednesday, February 07, 2001 - 02:16 pm 1.Legal Islam In the juristic and legal islam, what is in the mind of a man is not cognizable nor can it be percieved but only his verbal affirmation is noted as also the fact wether or not he manifests within himself those essential signs which are necessary to confirmation. If anybody affirms by word of mouth belief in allah, his messenger, the quran, the hereafter and other requirements of faith and then fulfils those necesary conditions which provide a proof of affirmation by him, he will be admitted into the islamic fold and all dealings with will be conducted as with a muslim. but this position is limited to temporal life and provides from the worly point of view a legal and cultural foundation on which is raised the Muslim Society. Its outcome is no more than that all those who on this affirmation are admitted into the muslim society should be accepted as muslims. Nobody from among them should be called KAFIR; everyone of them should have legal, moral and social rights on others; they should have marital relations amoung them; there should be distribution of inherited property, and other civil relations should operate. 2. True Islam However, the salvation of man his adjudgement as a muslim and a Momin in the hereafter, as well as his inclusion among the favoured slaves of allah, are matters which do not depend on this legal affirmation, but the real affirmation is the affirmation by heart, and of wholly entrusting oneself to allah with full volition. Whatever is verbally affirmed in the world in menat for the QADI of shari'ah and for the general people and mslims, because they can see the exterior only. But allah peers into a man's heart and his interior, and sizes up his IMAN. Allah' criterion of judging a man's position is whether his living, his dying, his loyalties, his obedience and servitude, in short, his life's entire achievements, wre meant for allah only or for some one else? If these were soley for Allah then he will be judged as a Muslim and a Momin, and if these were for someone else, then such a person will neither be a muslim nor a momin. Whoever falls short of this criterion, will, to the same extent, be lacking in IMAN and Islam, no matter he be reckoned among the lofty muslims of this world and may be holding any high status whatsoever. With Allah the only esteemable thing is wether or not you have spent in his way all that he has given you. If you ahve done this, you will be granted privilege which is given to those who are loyal and render what is due in the matter of servitude. And if you exempted anything from the sphere of servitude, then your affirmation of being a Muslim, which implies that you have wholly dedicated yourself to allah, will be a false claim which can hoodwink the world and beguile the Muslim society into assimilating you and thereby granting you all the rights of Muslims in the world, but god cannot decieved to assign a place for you among his faithfuls. If you will ponder over the difference between the legal Islam and the real Islam, which i have explained to you, you will know that their results will greatly be different from each other not only in the hereafter but also in this world(Syed Abul a'la maudoodi). Just wanted to share it with you nabadiino
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| | Wednesday, February 07, 2001 - 02:54 pm looooooool@kamal Then why categorise the islam into Legal or True Islam? And when you mean Legal - according to which book of law? Or constitution.Lets just stay with our simple latter version of Islam,without introducing hype for the sake of philosophical engagement.Helooooooooooooo.
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