"Quran Alone" movement
(Rises and falls. The Biggest
mistakes and misconceptions. Perspective and destiny. What are we going to do?)
Today, at the internet, can be found a lot of
sites/forums/people who proffess to follow(or are called) "Quran
alone" , "Only Quran", "God Alone", "Quran
first", "Quranic Islam" etc.
Unlike many of others who claim to believe
in The Quran( for example shia and sunnie muslims) these people have taken
responsibility to study The Book themselves and have shown an incredible
amout of courageness to break off with the traditions, to view the Quran with a
new eyes and to say a big NO to the traditional (mis)understandings of the
Quran.
As far as my knowledge goes these revolutionary people
have made great discoveries and achieved great results in the studying of the
book(click
to visit their sites). But…,
they have produced/uphold their own fallacies and mistakes(which I`ll try to
point to), which are not small in number - and what is more important - which
are not smaller then the traditional fallacies which they have rejected and
fight against, and which are at least equally dangerous(if not more-since now
it comes from the people who claim literacy in the book while traditionalists
are mainly almost illiterate in regards of the book and know only traditions).
It seems that many proponents of this
doctrine, at some stage of their spiritual development, lost their head,
treated the book superficially and restorted to the old habits.
Whatever, no one is free from mistakes and
misundrestandings, and misconceptions while he is studying the book, but
that what counts is how do we respond to our mistakes and misbeliefs, do we
blindly uphold them and continue to be wrong or we always reexamine our
beliefs and are opened to the new opininons, facts and to the truth. This
is why I am writing this, in order to remind people of the mistakes I have
noticed (some of these mistakes i have commited myself). My intention is to
analyse the movement, point out the mistakes and to look for the reasons which
cause them in order to avoid them in future. I hope the movement will not
stagnate and degrade but will stay on the course to which they set off
when they have rejected hadith and sunnah or have taken the Quran as the
sole source of divine guidance.
Many of the mistakes of the movement (if not
all) can be divided in two categories :
1. "hidden" relicts of the old
beliefs.
It seems that is very hard to get rid of all
of the old habits, opinions, beliefs and particularly way of thinking. They
are sometimes so deeply absorbed by our hearts that we practicaly continue to
uphold them,without noticing it, even when we openly and declaratively reject
them and proffes a new ideology.
One of the variations of this case is the
following mistake.
Being poorly acquinted with arabic many of "quranonlies" kept/adopted many false translations
of a certain places in the Book and consequently the false traditional concepts
lying behind them (thus neglecting important Quranic principle about avoiding
conjectures and particularly the principle mentioned in17/36).
2. "hyperreaction" to the old
beliefs
The old beliefs, after finding the truth,
looks so much disgusting to us that we sometimes automatically reject any
concept, idea and solution that reminds us of them, looks similar to them, or
is somehow connected with them etc. , even if, objectively, there is no
reasonable reason for that. This is a kind of the throwing the baby out with
the bath water. This is a kind of negative conditioning and wrong automatic
reaction.
The Biggest mistakes and misconceptions
of "Quranaloners":
This classification is not strictly
correct but is made for didactic reasons. In practice the characteristics of
each particular trend are mixed up to form a specific group of people,
individuals or ideology.
-Quranic illiteracy Inspite of being
more informed about The Quran from an average traditionalist, many of
"Quranaloners" are still not studying the book enough, see chapter
73 (and not studying it as it should be studied -carefully, thouroughly and
continuously)
-Modernism Some of the Quranaloners,
in their study of the book, take more care of being modern then of being
correct and objective. Examples…(still in process of writing)
-Intelectualism Some of the
Quranaloners, in their study of the book, take more care of being "intelectual"
then of being objective. Examples... (still in process of writing)
-Eccentricity There are some people
who are almost obssesed with (and) giving the most strange and eccentric
interpretation to the Quran. They find a great joy in perverting and complicating
the most clear and most simple passages of the Quran attaching the eccentric
meaning to it. They seem to be bored with Quran`s simplicity and it seems that
they are eager to find something new at any cost. They are not satisfied with
the "old" explanations, not because they are incorrect or untrue but
only because they are old.
-Feminism
-Westernism
-Scientism
-"Compromisism"
-Unitism (Unitarism) Some of Quranaloners want unity at any cost. They
almost prefer unity to the truth.
-Sectarianism
-Believing that Hell is not forever
Whoever believs this has closed the doors of his heart to the true taqwa. And
has trashed one of the main motivators and energy generators of true believers.
-Underestimation of importance of
knowledge of Arabic languaage
-Ignorance of arabic language
"Embelishing" of The Quran (This mistake
is a basis of The Eccentricity, Westernism,
Feminism, Modernism, Intelectualism and Scientism)
This is one of the mistakes that is often
made. It is characteristic not only of/for Quranaloners but for the others
schools of thought as well. Subconsciously or possibly consciously(?) the
propagators of The Quran attach to It the meanings and concepts which are, so
to say, "desirable" and which could be more easily accepted by those
to whome the Quran is propagated, than the original meanings. For example,
being strongly influenced by advanced Western Civilisation Culture, organised
Society and particularly with its (Modern) Science, people are eager to
"find" places where The Quran has propheciesed different sorts of
scientific discoveries or has given great/crutial/prime importance to The
Science or similar. It`s not that I am against The Science but I am against
fetching and stretching of the words of The book , and beating it to death, in
order to extricate some "scientific meanings". They see The
Science everywhere and gave it the status not given by God. It seems that,
subsconciously, these people are not satisfied with Gods Teaching and doctrine,
and they interpret it, that is, transform it to a more
"desirable" Teaching. Some of them, being traditionalists at the
beginning of they religious road, possibly, have been humiliated by advanced
groups/Societies, and consequently burdened with an inferiority complex , and
now, with their "modernised/scientificised" Religion, they finally
can have they "revenge". Others, without such a background want too
to prove to their friends and relatives that they are not backward and that the
new religion they uphold is modern. Not that it is not true, but why they must
prove it wrong way and using illegal tools?
Code 19 Deceit Code 19. Alleged mathemathico/numerical
miracle/sign. It is amazingly easy for satan to excite Quranaloners into the
fake idea of code 19. This section of my site is a comprehensive critical study
of code 19.
Controversy over 3/7(in future)
Ideas which deserved to be considered upon and worked on
Establishing of a
"Quran alone" Community/City
To be continued…