Akhmetova L.S.

Senior Teacher, Master in History

of Kostanay State University named after A. Baitursynov

Kostanay, Kazakhstan

EXTREME AND MODERN NATURE OF ISLAM

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 32^nd 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, Russia prohibited calling criminals “Islamic extremists” at the state level. The right name is bandit, just bandit, because it doesn’t have the religious content. Thus, the conception that Islamic studies and destructive directions of Islam are incompatible, get more and more confirmations. Not only researchers, but state structure representatives make the conclusion that Islam and extremism have absolutely different nature.

Literture:

1. Altay H. “Quran. Sense Translations”. Almaty: “Ata-Mura”, 1993,-207p.