Interesting.
Islam has always been progressive. I believe we fail to see that because we don't have any current examples to show us how Islam will work. Sad but it's the truth. But we are believing men and women who believes only Islam, in its truest form will prevail, either by us or by another entity who loves Allah and His messenger more than we do.
Remember, on the day of judgement, we can only defend ourselves.
We sometimes insist on living in the past. Microscopically, we can't even sometimes establish the "khilafah' within us. How do we expect to establish the khilafah in this world?
Nevertheless, it doesn't mean that we shouldn't improve. Rather than saying "Islam should be reformed", we ought to say, "the practice of Islam MUST be reformed". It's very evident that certain practices are out of date and sometimes far from Islam.
Muhammad Idress as Shafi'e himself had two qaul. One when he was residing in Egypt and one when he was residing in Makkah/Madinah. There are some instances that certain fatwa was executed owing to the circumstances of the perpertrator.
Remember the case of that woman who came to the prophet admitting that she committed adultery and she was then pregnant? The prophet did not carry out the necessary punishment until he had told her to give birth to the child and finished breastfeeding the baby. And then made a remark than if all the forgiveness of human kind be gathered, they would not compare to the repentance of that lady. So, did the prophet not implement the shaariah? Countries run by muslim, do they practice this spirit of compassion and mercy showed unconditionally by our beloved prophet. ?
I believe the issue is with the practice, WE MUST ADMIT to that, because even in the time of all the caliphate after Khulafa' Ar Raashideen, the Umayyad, the Abbassid and the Faatimids, the PRACTICE of Islamic law was not perfect to what the prophet had preached. Except for the time of Umar ibn Abd Aziz where, his credibility as a leader and a pious leader was a major contributor to the peace and wholesomeness of the practice of Islam at that time.
Brothers and sisters,
Our forum is a representative of what we are outside this tiny cable connected world.
Enemies of Islam come in many different faces and but there's one TRUE enemy that is working 24/7 to destroy us through his servants and descendants and we know who he is.
Let us re-think and calm down. It's very unbecoming that the moderator has to advise us against name calling and unfriendly gestures.
Words can hurt and I remember the the hadeeth of the prophet who asked his companions about the one who is bankrupt. They answered, the bankrupt is the one who had lost his wealth. BUt the prophet corrected them, that the bankrupt is the one who comes on the day of judgment with mountain of deeds, but then in his life, he had hurt someone verbally or physically and he did not reconcile. Allah will then command the angels to take his good deeds and give them to the person who he had wronged. Worse, if his good deeds are not enough to expiate his wrongdoings, the other person's bad deeds will then be transferred to him until he will end up in the hell fire.
Now, is it worth it? :-[