MODERN NATURE OF ISLAM AND EXTREME
Akhmetova L.S.-Senior
Teacher, Master in History of Kostanay State
University named after A. Baitursynov ,Kostanay,
Kazakhstan
From the old times and
now also Islam as a very many-sided and difficult notion is always a
controversy.
Basing
on the Quran concepts it can be concluded that Islam, which is simple,
available and having undeveloped hierarchy structure, lets the Muslim develop
and exist successfully nowadays. It’s necessary to note traditional
ingressiveness in the process of studying, the absence of rigid judgments about
Islam being the only and absolute truth.But, unfortunately, nowadays Islam is
often associated with extremism and terrorism in the society. Moreover, the radical
essence of Islam and aggressive attitude to all non-Islamic became the biggest
myth among people. The reason of this stereotype is that Islam became an
instrument for achieving the goals of some politicians and political groups,
who didn’t have anything in common with Islam.
Many
criminal positions pseudoislamic extremists base on the Hadith of the Prophet
Muhammad. Hadiths, who are directed to moral-ethic side of a person and
society, have the fundamental meaning. The problem of jihad is the essence of
the moral-ethic basis of Islam. Reports of the acts of terrorism are often
followed by the jihad notion, which expresses the aggressive nature of Islam.
However, large inner jihad is as important as the small one that is expressed
with some fights for the sake of religion. This truth is reflected in the
hadith, where it’s said that the one who fights with his egoistic goals on the
way to Allah is the jihad. Large jihad
is considered to be the person inner fighting against his ego, which has the strategic
meaning for the self-developing process.
It
is natural that the time of war jihad has fallen into oblivion. The reason to
think so is that Muhammad told once: “We are going from the small jihad to the
large one”.
One
of the Quran verses tells us about the taboo on killing a person. Almighty
said: “If you kill a person not for the murder, it’s like you kill all people;
if you save a person, it’s like you save all people”. (Surah “Al-mayda”) [1].
When
the cases of hijacking started happening more often Muslim scientists declared
hijacking forbidden in Islam and judged it very strictly.
In
the Saudi town Taif the 32nd council meeting of prominent scientists
of Saudi Arabia was gathered in 1988, which was dedicated to this problem.
The
decision that was made: the one who commits such a crime deserves the death
penalty. Those who think acts of terrorism and murders of innocent to be jihad
are called dzhahyl, because all this is not related to jihad on the way to
Allah.
Jihad,
which is relevant nowadays, is “jihad by culture”. With its help the faith
should be planted in the world (iman), and grains of knowledge and wisdom in
human’s mind.
The
absence of the deep understanding of the Quran and Sunnah basics contributes
the development of the destructive outlook. The Quran and Hadith analysis lets
us form the real and true essence of Islam and its role nowadays.
So,
the decision of public and state institutions of world countries, which
admitted the correlate with extremism and terrorism, is not justified. For
instance, due to all expert arguments The European Commission made a decision
prohibiting usage of the notions “Islamic extremism” and “jihad”. Also,
Literture:
1. Altay
H. “Quran. Sense Translations”. Almaty: “Ata-Mura”, 1993,-207p.