Muslim Disrespect for Islam
- philhoraia
- Dec 11, 2022
- 1 min read
Does any Muslim respect the words of Allah's boss or does he disrespect them? In this short post I shall show how a Muslim may show disrespect.
A Muslim will interpret the Quran. But that same Quran that he is using says that ONLY Allah can interpret, make sense of, it.
S 3:7 He is the one who sent down upon you the book; of it are muhkamat verses. They are the mother of the book and others are mutashabihat. As for those in whose hearts is aberration, they follow what he copied from it, seeking fitnah and seeking its interpretation. And none knows its interpretation but Allah. And the firm in knowledge say: We have believed in it. All is from our lord. And none remembers except the possessors of albab.
Question: Does an author interpret his own work?
A Muslim CANNOT disagree with us regarding the Quran.
Can a Muslim argue about the Bible? For one thing, the Quran is supposed to confirm it. So if he disagrees with it, he shows disrespect for the Quran.
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The people of the Scripture used to read the Torah in Hebrew and explain it to the Muslims in Arabic. Then Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Do not believe the people of the Scripture, and do not disbelieve them, but say, 'We believe in Allah and whatever has been revealed...' (3.84)
The Muslim cannot disbelieve anything that a Christian or Jew says about the Bible or the Tanakh respectively. If he does, he shows disrespect towards Allah's boss.
The phrase: "We believe in Allah and whatever has been revealed" shows that "Allah" and the 'revealed" is localised to Muslims.
In other words, this seems to mark the point where Allah is possessing Muhammad and his Muslims are noticing this.