Get to the point
Comment on Rached Ghannouchi’s statement abolishing Islamic law and releasing freedoms
Egyptians say, “Get to the point.” Ghannouchi has applied this rule and produced the final result of the theory of political interpretation of Islam, which contaminated his creed and thought from the time he encountered it while studying in Syria. He got up, performed a full ritual washing, prayed two units of prayer and renewed his entry into Islam! In fact, he had adopted a distorted interpretation of Islam that makes material and worldly objectives the comprehensive purpose of religion.
Here Ghannouchi cites al-Mawdudi and Sayyid Qutb together. This reflects his precise and complete understanding of their thought. Some religious people think Sayyid Qutb’s thought differs from this tendency, because he calls for the sovereignty of Islamic law and devotion to God. That is a superficial and ignorant understanding of his actual thought.
The central idea of these three, al-Mawdudi, Qutb and Ghannouchi, as of all movement-oriented Islamists, is the same: creed, law, worship and religion are a “means” to social justice and redistribution of wealth, revolution against injustice, the release of freedoms, and preparing humanity to build the virtuous city, which is supposedly the purpose of creation, religious obligation and the prophetic message.
Some do not understand the theory in full, although contaminated by it.
Others understand it well but dare not state it openly.
But someone like Ghannouchi, with his frail religiosity, boldness in falsehood and distance from uprightness, or, as Iraqis say, someone who has “sold out and finished with it,” openly declares their theory’s final outcome: abolishing Islamic law, releasing freedoms, abolishing the obligation to enjoin right and forbid wrong, and the state’s duty to establish religion and preserve its laws and rites.
“Get to the point and spare me the rest.”
For more, see:
ISIS: a product of the political interpretation of Islam
The reality of the doctrine of monotheism according to al-Qaradawi
Succession on earth means developing the earth
Rather, political interpretation is the bridge to secularism
ISIS: a product of political interpretation
Islam is suitable for every time and place
Was worship prescribed to protect souls from aggression, oppression and injustice?