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Sense, Nonsense and Multi-sense
The “Secularism” of Dr. Khalid Sohail has been very cutely hijacked by
some FOTH Islamic scholars. The seed of this adventure has been already
planted by Khalid himself when he defined secularism, ”Freedom
of Religion and Freedom from Religion”. It is a multi-sense statement which
leaves the ground to talk of religion only and not of secularism. The
Muslim scholars know very well how to use and abuse these multi-sense
statements because the Holy Book is full of them. These are called
Allegorical A^yAt. These may have many
interpretations but the true message is only known to Allah [3:7].
All monotheist religions are based on an (established) FAITH that there
is one and unique God. In Islam to accept the prophet Muhammad as the
Messenger of God is part of the established faith. The “Orthodoxy” is
adhering to the traditional or accepted and established faith, Thus by
definition, all monotheist religions are based on orthodoxy. On the other
hand the Hinduism is heterodoxy. The statement that “there is no Orthodoxy
in Islam” is nonsense.
Any debate or argument based on nonsense and multi-sense will not give
any sense.
In religion the multi-sense statements enhance the faith of the faithful
and in poetry nonsense gives more beauty to a verse.
zindagy meyN tw sabhy peyAr
kiyA kaeteY hayN
mayN tw mar kar bhy meyry
jAn tujheY j*AhWN gA (j*=ch, W=oo)
I will beg your excuse for any error in this verse. The error is mine.
What a beautiful verse; only because the dead lover is still loving!!
The multi-sense and nonsense statements are necessary and useful in
religion, poetry and literature but not in debate and argument.
Lastly, I do not understand why this discussion over Islam and Democracy
has been stated. This has been already discussed, in long and large, three
years ago under the title of “Why has democracy not taken root in most
Muslim countries?”
Regards.
Ahsan (Strasbourg)
ahsan@noos.fr
March11, 2009
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