By Tahir Aslam Gora
We Muslims view all aspects of life -- economics, politics, family and universal realities -- through religious lenses. But we are living in a world where not many nations are judging everything by religious standards any more.
In this situation, it seems much of the world expects us to shed our religious beliefs in order to share common human aspirations and developments.
When we don't come up to the required standard of compatibility, our fellow citizens ask for reforms and reformers within the Muslim community who can help us to become compatible with rest of society.
Muslims have been striving for their own reforms through the ages. During the ninth and 10th centuries, Mutazalites, known as followers of rationality in Islam, encouraged reasoning and questioning within the theological orbits. Read more ...
We Muslims view all aspects of life -- economics, politics, family and universal realities -- through religious lenses. But we are living in a world where not many nations are judging everything by religious standards any more.
In this situation, it seems much of the world expects us to shed our religious beliefs in order to share common human aspirations and developments.
When we don't come up to the required standard of compatibility, our fellow citizens ask for reforms and reformers within the Muslim community who can help us to become compatible with rest of society.
Muslims have been striving for their own reforms through the ages. During the ninth and 10th centuries, Mutazalites, known as followers of rationality in Islam, encouraged reasoning and questioning within the theological orbits. Read more ...
Source: The Hamilton Spectator
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