Islam in the West & Islamic Legal Theory - Yahya (John) Ederer

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understand underlying realities of our society as they relate to underlying principles and wisdoms and reasons behind certain rulings that come within Islam of course Islam is something that was meant to be suitable for all times and places and so one of the definite strong points that we would have to have in actualizing an expression of Islam in the West properly would be to look into a ricotta Mikasa ate the Mikasa of the Dean and we have a book by hitman actual

we have the humanish out to be his book Chapter VII that is basically the main reference in which he goes through a long dissertation of understanding the principles of Islamic law and the objectives behind the general structure of Islamic law so when we look at those things and we look at the general culture and society in which we live we can now apply rulings properly and efficiently that facilitate a more comfortable attachment to the religion

rather than trying to take a literalist approach that would be that would be understood that you're dealing with things that are similar to the life of the prophet sallallaahu sulla which is not the case so I advise all of the students of knowledge out there to get into the books of law school it is well known that the Malekith have with the concept of Amidala Medina that there is a recognition of the value of understanding the general culture of society this is what my Sheikh Ahmed syllabic told me a long time ago whenever I was looking to study Islamic

law he's now the assistant dean of Islamic law at Shattuck University in Morocco and I think that if we all look at this approach is more of a comprehensive approach to dealing with different particular Messiah or situations that were dealing with I think is a lot more fair and reasonable than trying to import a mentality or a concept of Islamic practice for application that was obviously developed in a place outside of the lens in which we're trying to function so the imported hand-me-down follow-the-leader without question attitude is not going to

facilitate a future first lamb and the West only an approach which is based upon understanding the principles and the underlying objectives of the Islamic law and how the literal texts can be transferred from time to place with meaning behind them so Jews a camel off Aaron will up whom Allah be Maha Bua