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DUBAI — Quran Award
Gains Global
Importance
Green God and green Islam!
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Compiled by Aman Quadri
Following the 9/11 attacks on the United States
when the world turned upside down for Muslims around the world, Dr Naik
stepped up his battle of hearts and minds by travelling around the
world and offering lectures, talks and interviews, to distinguish the
original faith of peace from the hateful death cult championed by
extremists like Osama bin Laden. He has delivered at least 1200 public
talks in the US, Canada, Europe, Middle East and Asia since 9/11, not
to mention countless others held in India.
The
Quran emphatically asserts that death is not the final end but a
gateway to a different kind of life: We mete out death among you....
that we may transfigure you and make you what you know not. And verily
you know the first creation. Why then do we not reflect? (56: 61-63)
The
Buddhist, Christian and Hindu doctrines of salvation have a great deal
in common. In each, the emphasis is upon liberation from sin, upon
rescue from evil. In each, the objective is a return to the previous
state of innocence and bliss. As sin is supposed to be inseparable from
life and the phenomenal world is believed to be the abode of evil, it
follows that liberation can be achieved only by renouncing the world.
Moreover, in the Quran, the emphasis is on the positive content of
salvation. It is not conceived as a negation of pain and liberation
from evil. It consists in the sense of fulfilment, the feeling of
realisation and the thrill of expansion. Man is endowed with a number
of potentialities. By developing these he reaches his full stature and
qualifies for still higher stages awaiting him. Man must discover in
what direction his self can develop and then he must create the
conditions, physical as well as social, which favour the development.
His main task in this life is to develop his self by conquering the
forces of nature and employing them for the development of mankind. -- Allama Ghulam Ahmad Parwez
Wahhabis
feel that they are up keepers of a purer form of religion than other
Sunnis. The Wahhabis believe that their version of religion is derived
from the salaf or the earliest three generations that succeeded the
prophet - the generation of the sahaba or companions, then the tabiin
(second generation) and finally the tabii tabiin (third generation)
after the Prophet. They reject many rituals and other understanding of
religion which is practiced by the Sunnis which they say were liberal
innovations or bida'a that came after these three earliest generations.
They use this word bida'a or liberal innovations very freely to
describe many things that came into being after the first three
generations. Before and soon after Abdel Aziz Ibn Saud the founder of
Saudi Arabia established the Kingdom his supporters set off on
murderous religious expeditions inside the land where they would wipe
out entire villages including men, women and children who were not
Wahhabis. This was done to cleanse Saudi Arabia of bida'a