Comments on: Response to Ali Eteraz on “Islamic reform”

By: loveProphet

loveProphet — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:43:19 +0000

Great response. Indeed there is no doubt that this satan Ali eteraz is a kafir as he has mocked Islamic basic beliefs.

By: Some person

Some person — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:24:40 +0000

Interesting response, do you have any plans on answering the other 4 parts to this series?

By: jinnzaman

jinnzaman — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:54:32 +0000

Good God, the article was wracked with historical inaccuracies. I think your critique provided a sufficient response against him.

By: Ismaeel

Ismaeel — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:19:19 +0000

What does he mean traditional scholars haven’t done anything about oppression in the last 200 years. Let me see: the Hanafi Naqshbandi Imam Shamil and the Maliki Qadiri Imam Uthman Dan Fodio weren’t exactly slouches in the old fighting oppression game.

By: Ismaeel

Ismaeel — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:28:00 +0000

Salaam

it’s much worse than that, Eretaz rejects the vast majority of the hadiths sahih or otherwise and believes in his words of “following the sunnah in the manner of Imam Malik, from the practice of the people of Madinah” telling him that Imam Malik was also the pioneer of muhadditheen doesn’t seem to register with him though.

Also with regards to this issue of ijtihad, after a long discussion with one of my Shuyukh i am of the opinion it is better not to talk of fresh ijtihad but rather talk of the work of the Faqih in giving a judgment on a new issue according to the usul of his madhab. The reason being that although essentially the Faqih is a type of mujtahid, the terms mujtahid and ijtihad can imply to many the idea of the highest type of ijtihad i.e. deriving a methodology- an usul from the sources. That was after all the meaning of the closing of the doors of ijtihad was about- the restriciting of usuls to the four schools.

By: Yunus Yakoub Islam

Yunus Yakoub Islam — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:12:16 +0000

I avoided going anywhere near these Guardian pieces. Their theme is self-evidently above the station of their author, whose writings on the Net have become increasingly preposterous since the Eteraz blog was born and then all but died. Like too many bloggers in the Muslim cyberspace, he’s sweet with words but lacks genuine erudition.