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[quote]Becoming a good human being should be the target of every muslim,

Believing that the earliest were the best, is convenient as well as problematic. It is convenient as the earlier people are no longer living, one can praise them as much as one wants to, exaggerate their features etc. Problematic, because it lets you believe probably that there is something wrong with the current times per se, which has resulted in such 'lack of taqwa'. Such a belief, in my personal opinion, is an outcome of static standards of judging people and the current times.

Such standards for example are,

1) nobody else (other than one belonging to our own school of thought) deserves to be called a 'scholar'. If it is somehow shown that he is qualified to be a scholar, we would call him a 'misguided' scholar. Maulana Maududi is one of the victims of this.

2) All the research and publications will be primely focused towards proving the other wrong. Please have a look at the number of publications written e.g. by Darul Uloom Deoband, Jama'at e Islami, and others in this regard.

3) Allowing Tasawwuf to pre-empt the understanding of Quran and Sunnah. As it happened in case of Mr. Ahmed Raza Khan. History tells us that in their conflict with Mr. Khan, the Ulema-e-Deoband were tasting their own medicine. Using the allowances available in Tasawwuf Mr. Khan came at a completely different understanding of Quran & Sunnah, which was obviously incorrect in the 
eyes of Deoband but what could they do.

All of the above resulted in a static academic environment within the traditionalists coupled with their Jews-like self righteouness that blinded them to believe that any big personality should come from within them, indicates why things are, how they are right now.[/quote]

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