To you, what is a moderate muslim?

Question

This is what it is to me, but in another's words. How do you see it? What do you think about this?

"For moderate Muslims Ijtihad is the preferred method of choice for social and political change and military Jihad the last option. For militant Muslims, military Jihad is the first option and Ijtihad is not an option at all.



Ijtihad narrowly understood is a juristic tool that allows independent reasoning to articulate Islamic law on issues where textual sources are silent. The unstated assumption being when texts have spoken reason must be silent. But increasingly moderate Muslim intellectuals see Ijtihad as the spirit of Islamic thought that is necessary for the vitality of Islamic ideas and Islamic civilization. Without Ijtihad, Islamic thought and Islamic civilization fall into decay.

For moderate Muslims, Ijtihad is a way of life, which simultaneously allows Islam to reign supreme in the heart and the mind to experience unfettered freedom of thought. A moderate Muslim is therefore one who cherishes freedom of thought while recognizing the existential necessity of faith. She aspires for change, but through the power of mind and not through planting mines.



Moderate Muslims aspire for a society – a city of virtue -- that will treat all people with dignity and respect. There will be no room for political or normative intimidation. Individuals will aspire to live an ethical life because they recognize its desirability. Communities will compete in doing good and politics will seek to encourage good and forbid evil. They believe that the internalization of the message of Islam can bring about the social transformation necessary for the establishment of the virtuous city. The only arena in which Moderate Muslims permit excess is in idealism."

http://www.islamfortoday.com/khan08.htm

Answer 1

A moderate muslim is one who believes in God, believes the Quran is from God, believes all the prophets are from God without distinction.....and follows the laws of God which promote peace and stability in the world regardless of where you live and who your neighbor is.

A moderate muslim uses "reason" to come to all these conclusions....and keeps using it to maintain that conclusion and to reinforce it with themself and among others.

Those scholars in the past that decided the gates of ijtihad were closed....did a huge and destructive disservice to the religion of Islam....using our brains, reasoning and thinking, are our two greatest gifts from God and cannot nor should ever be "closed".

Answer 2

Tah. Ljtihad is now a word in my vocabulary. I'm trusting that it (ljtihad) is a genuine precept or somethinhg in Islam, maybe from the Haditha - since you didn't cite the Koran.

A moderate Muslim would see past the divinely inspired lone reciter and a phalanx of scribes model and the unaltered perfect language folly that goes with that model. They would recognize the collective enterprise nature of human successes. And they would see, in the present and in history, that certain individuals are of particular significance in their contexts. Three cheers for the Messenger for being at the "magnetic core" of that "hive", if you will, which together fought the early battles and trod the road to Medina and Mecca and back.

When I read the Koran, in English translation, though, I saw that it is put together in a much more orderly way than the old or new Testaments. It's several hundred years later and writing and printing and text storage and distribution had come a long way! It is conscious of itself AS a text and has and has a clear picture of and describes It's audience. Compared to previous texts it knows that it's a book.

A moderate Muslim today would allow that the Koran invites refinement.

Answer 3

What you need to do is use The Quran and haditha to prove this to other muslims who are not moderate, rather than try to prove it to other people.

Don't spend so much time trying to convince non muslims that islam is peaceful, convince Jihadists not to blow up subways.

I wish you very much luck. The fundamentalists use the Quran and haditha to back up their claims and to convince other muslims to follow their view.

You need to do some dawa or your own, and use the Quran, because there are too many people out there that have a much differant view, and they are able to use the text and many times win these arguments. A typical Al-Quada tape they use the Quran like 100 times to prove they are doing the right thing for god, you need to use the Quran to prove they are wrong or else they will never see you as a real muslim

Answer 4

Well i suppose you would name me a slight christian for the reason that it's not that i am an intensive christian by way of the worlds phrases. However this time period style of offends me. I might name myself an intensive christian for the reason that i do the whole lot that i beleive is proper. Saying i'm slight is like announcing i'm style of a christian however just a little bit. The most effective change that quite is among the phrases slight and radical in these days is well-nigh that moderates dont blow stuff up i suppose. However, if anyone had been blowing stuff up or killing individuals "within the identify of christ" then i might be very hesitant to name them a christian in any respect regardless of whether they name themselves a christian - that's now not very christian-like

Answer 5

A moderate Muslim is one who acknowledges Almighty God Allah as The Only Sovereign and Supreme Lord and Creator, and worships Him devoutly and sincerely.

A moderate Muslim does not seek to become an extremist. That is against the teachings of the Holy Qur'an and the Sunnah (Traditions) of Prophet Muhammad (Allah's Peace be upon him).

Jihad is not going to "holy war" to kill off the "infidels." It is about self-struggle, self-improvement, self-mastery.

Answer 6

I have only ever met moderate Muslims where I live most of our Muslims are from the Cocos Islands and they are part of our community and get on well with everyone and thats my idea of a moderate Muslim.

Answer 7

A "moderate" or may I say a True Muslim would be the one you really believes that he is a Slave to Allah and none else, don't you agree?

One who would respect the Will of God and not those who claim to be His Representatives, don't you think?

God [Allah] would not want any jihad but jahada. The struggle to remain pure.

Peace.

ST

Answer 8

For the three Abrahamic faiths--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--there is no moderation. All start from the basic premise that it is the only way to live properly, and from that central concept comes all the conflict, hate, projection, and judgmental behavior.

This is so difficult for practicing members of those faiths to understand. Intolerance breeds hatred and violence. Period.

Answer 9

As long as a muslims keeps to his religion and doesn't seek to disrupt the community around them, then maybe he is moderate.
When islam seesks to impose their way unpon the community without vote, then they are militant, and need to be brought down.

Answer 10

Some one who follows their faith without trying to destroy others faith.

you can forbid evil all you like but it will not remove satan or sin. Jesus is the only one who can remove sin. I think that is a bit long and complicated you have good ideals but they will never happen on this earth.