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[quote]Asalamu Alaykum

Quran addresses the ordinary man and women, its purpose is to guide every man and woman. The style of language it adopts is therefore that of man's literature and not of logic or science or any specific sphere of our categories of knowledge. I am not saying that Quran does not possess the marvels of reasoning or that its does not contain cosmological truths, ofcourse the book of the Creator would by its very nature contain such truths. 
We must remember that it is a book of moral guidance, employing abstract logic in its understanding is being unfair to it. More often that not I have seen the cyclical nature of pure logic, reverse arguments can be advocated on rhetoric logic and logical claims and more often than not I feel that such logic was not that which the Quran ever applied or the Prophets in their preaching, rather the rational faculty of man with emphasis to his, I would say 'sensible reasoning' highlighted. 
The student of the Quran is not a promptor of philosophy!

There is no one scholar, there is no one school of thought, there is no truly comprehensive one man authored book! Just because one man or woman is very learned does not imply that all others never were or arent and neither does that imply that his/her knowledge is comprehensive and his/her conclusions true! The biggest reason of the intellectual stagnation of Muslims has been that they have let a few men and women do their thinking for them! On the Day of Judgement we will be asked about our personal intentions, endeavours, and beliefs. To entrust someone else with personal salvation is too big a gamble. I am not saying that every man and woman should be a scholar and I do acknowledge the differences in learning and knowledge but I fail to understand the phenomena of acceptance of ideas merely because they were  advocated by a person who one may revere ! Allah has given us intellect and He asks us repeatedly to use it so I suggest that we should and then evaluate the merit of the purposed theory and judge it with a clear mind and clear intentions and then arrive at a conclusion regarding it, which may I say would not signal the end of this endeavour, but it shall go on.

Edited by - nadya on March 27 2004  05:15:23[/quote]

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