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[quote]Salam hkhan,

[maroon]as far as javed sb is concerned, and as i told one of my my sisters who asked me recently(v. angrily!!) to send his opinion to her, one must read his other research work re: basics like Qura'n n Sunnah first before reading his opinion about head cover or other disputive issues[/maroon]

You have very rightly pointed out an extremely important principle for studying Javed sb's approach towards understanding Islam. What normally happens is that people get to know his opinions on the most disputive and sensitive of issues without any perspective on his overall approach. Hence the first reaction is that of sheer disbelief and vituperative sckepticism. 
To pass a fair judgement on Javed sb or, for that matter, any other intellectual scholar/researcher of high calibre, one first needs to develop an appreciation of his Weltanschauung, epistemology and hermeneutical principles. That done, an application of his principles should be meticulously studied in relation to the Quran, Sunnah, Hadith and Fiqh. The whole excercise would assuredly be iterative for it is a highly cerebral excercise. Undeniably, there would be disagreement in details or application of his principles but this method would atleast allay the concerns and pacify the reactions of most of his unwitting detractors.

[maroon]b/c its only then that one can understand/recognize that a person who has done the research work of such high standard and calibre within such restricted limits of Allah's and His beloved's sws Word, cannot b talking out of blue when he talks about head cover--  there must b a solid ground for this. so its the matter of trust as well.[/maroon]

I fully agree with the first part  of your statement that he cannot be talking out of the blue when he talks of head-cover, and this is not what i intended when i wrote that this a a  recent development in his thought. Whatever little i have in terms of the understanding of Islam and the impetus to  learn more, i owe it to him and his learned students. However, it is when you write: [maroon]there must b a solid ground for this. so its the matter of trust as well,[/maroon] that i find myself in slight disagreement with you. Naturally, one comes to repose trust in a particular scholar after continuous exposure to and study of his/her ideas and this is an ineluctable progression but one must avoid the pitfall of blind complacency. Trust you must but saying that "there [b]MUST[/b] be a solid ground for his opinion", without subjecting it to analytical rigour, is a premature statement. This is where trust starts turning into uncritical acquiescence and it can be tolerated for people with little education, intellect and exposure but not for such highly educated and discerning individuals as yourself.

[maroon]shehzad saleem's opinion, as far as i know this reply from him was a few yrs back[/maroon]

I am quite sure that Shehzad sb's opinon on this matter has undergone a metamorphosis since the writing of that response, and it now squares with Javed sb's. My only point in quoting him was that i still find his reasoning quite compelling and his evidence incontrovertible.

Edited by - Razi Allah on March 16 2004  14:50:51[/quote]

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