It may come as a surprise that the grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed el-Tayeb has refused to issue a fatwa to excommunicate ISIS members, i.e. a fatwa to allow the takfir (excommunication from Islam) of ISIS members.
Either they don't wish to engage in heated dialogue which would only clarify the issue of making takfir on another brother or they're succumbing to a public opinion that regards the aims of ISIS to be noble but the method to be incorrect and fatal, i.e. the concept of Khilafah is correct however the method of establishing it via force to be incorrect.
My opinion would be the former. Al-Azhar is still seen to many Muslims around the Middle East to be the voice of reason and truth. Their fatwa's are followed by millions even though they lack political gain for Islam. In fact, it is known that many of the fatwa's issued by these big renowned Islamic institutions come at a time where America requires the Muslims blood to boil and rise to fight America and the West's wars. It remains silent for the cause of the Muslims dying in Palestine to the hands of the Israeli's who have stolen the land and reaped its resources, it remains silent for those suffering at the hands of brutal monks in Burma, it remains silent when the West intervene in the Muslims affairs, it remains silent when the dictators slaughter the believers and it remains silent when it is so badly needed to unite the Ummah and lead it forth into liberation.
If they were to entertain the discussion of takfirism which they so desperately need in order to split the Ummah on sectarianism then it would only clarify and crystallise the understanding of making takfir on another brother. Many Muslims would give a brother 70 excuses before excommunicating them from Islam as the severity of such words could cost them their own success in the hereafter.
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "If a man says to his brother, O Kafir (disbeliever)!' Then surely one of them is such (i.e., a Kafir). "
No comments:
Post a Comment