In the wake of the ISIS tragedy, once again the talk is steered towards all sorts of terms, Quranic literalism, Plausible interpretations and the all-time favorites, Moderate and Extreme interpretations and so on. The objective is twofold, if you discount honest ignorance, firstly to make it appear that when it comes to the Quran, anything goes. The other evergreen objective is to try and muddle the waters between the illegal sectarian “Islam” and Islam as detailed in the Quran. Needless to say, all sects are illegal in Islam even those that either claims default status or the, even more, absurd “only true sect” label. All sects are based on different and often competing and impossible to verify third party single narrations, as opposed to Islam as detailed in the primary source of the Islamic faith, the one and only Quran, which can be verified and validated from within.
The aim of repeatedly raising this settled issue from the day Quran was declared complete and the belief perfected by the Author of the Quran is to not want to interpret the Quran and most importantly discourage others from doing the same. The reasons behind that can be summed up in just two words, "power grab". That applies to both the leaders of the Islamic sect scene and the various new and old World Orders. God through the Quran has given individuals unprecedented rights and these very same rights are proving to be an immovable obstacle on the road to the usual "Houses" with prefixes and suffixes like parliament, President, Lower, Upper, Lord and indeed, even colors are added to the mix.
By bringing in out of context and even blatantly plucking linguistically challenged translated verses is to spread misinformation, an age old ploy which unfortunately works both in war and peace. When one does that one can make the Quran say whatever one wants, or for that matter, any book, quote or a news snippet on any given night can be twisted beyond recognition. To accept any claimed interpretation without cross checking with the embedded Quranic guidelines on how to interpret the Quran is strange to say the least. It’s just one single book, how difficult can that be? When one follows the clearly stated guidelines of interpretation found in the Quran itself, there can only be one way to interpret the Quranic verses, the one God intended. As one would expect from a divine message.
Isn't it strange that if one were to do that to say what was said and done in a rerun of a Friends episode or with the rules of baseball for that matter; they will be tweeted out of the Milky Way in no time by the ever eager Netizens. But since it is Islam, these same players, mostly operating under the convenient "Humanists" label, will be falling over each other finding words to give some form of legitimacy to these blatantly wrong interpretations. The upside in the midst of this circus is, well-meaning souls who are genuinely interested in the truth are able to see through the "interpretation" smoke screens and are discovering Islam in throngs.
You have managed to say nothing quite eloquently. A bit like the Koran. It would be better if you explained to everyone exactly how the creator of the universe would like us to interpret the koran. Quite clearly you are the only one in the world who understands this. I mean seriously. If you could do that then the whole world would turn to Islam. Maybe you should write gods propper interpretation of koran translated to clear unambiguous English. Then it could be like one true text.
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