avoiding two extremes
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
"The more one understands of the Quran and applies in one's life, the closer one comes to Allah. I hope that Muslims will steer the middle course between two unpleasant extremes.
The first is to throw up one's hands, claiming that islamic knowledge is not a business of a layperson, and that it should be left to specialists in the field. This attitude has left the Muslim masses in deep ignorance of their religion. Whoever is not busy learning about Islam is likely to be busy in a wide variety of activities that will be a burden for himself in the Day of Judgment. This attitude also leads to a result that was severely critisized in Surah at-Tawbah. The Jews and Christians took their priests and rabbis as lords in place of God, by blindly following them when they prohibited what God had mad lawful for them and made lawful that which God had prohibited.
The second extreme is to consider oneself learned after having read a couple of books on Islam. Such persons feel duty-bound to correct the "mistakes" on those around them when they see them doing something they are unfamiliar with, or when they have heard somebody somewhere say that a certain practice is wrong, but they themselves have not studied the diferent positions of scholars on the issue along with their evidences. "
Dr Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, Usool at-Tafseer- The methodology of Quranic Interpretation.
"The more one understands of the Quran and applies in one's life, the closer one comes to Allah. I hope that Muslims will steer the middle course between two unpleasant extremes.
The first is to throw up one's hands, claiming that islamic knowledge is not a business of a layperson, and that it should be left to specialists in the field. This attitude has left the Muslim masses in deep ignorance of their religion. Whoever is not busy learning about Islam is likely to be busy in a wide variety of activities that will be a burden for himself in the Day of Judgment. This attitude also leads to a result that was severely critisized in Surah at-Tawbah. The Jews and Christians took their priests and rabbis as lords in place of God, by blindly following them when they prohibited what God had mad lawful for them and made lawful that which God had prohibited.
The second extreme is to consider oneself learned after having read a couple of books on Islam. Such persons feel duty-bound to correct the "mistakes" on those around them when they see them doing something they are unfamiliar with, or when they have heard somebody somewhere say that a certain practice is wrong, but they themselves have not studied the diferent positions of scholars on the issue along with their evidences. "
Dr Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, Usool at-Tafseer- The methodology of Quranic Interpretation.
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