Dear All AoA
Although I wrote this in another thread but I strongly believe this require its own thread.
Dear Moderator: Please leave this thread in Current Issues.
Whenever there is a discussion of implementation of Islam comes, Time and again the issue of many interpretation of Islam raises its ugly head. People who dislike islam, people who are not aware of detailed islamic rules, seculars who hate islam, uses this issue against the implementation of islam in modern day.
Yes there are many interpretation of same ayah or same hadith, yes there is a difference of opinion on important issues, yes there opinions which are poles apart from each other on the same matter. So whats all the fuss about. In any society there are as many opinion as many people are there. Even if we take the example of democracy we will find tens of opinion and definitions of it. Same with any other system in the world. If we take the example of US, there are always difference of opinion in House of Rep and Senate and even within President's own cabinet and staff. Do we ever hear that US presidential system should be scrapped or democracy should be scrapped because there are more than 100 different opinions and version of it exist.
In any soceity and ruling system there are ways to settle the disputes and sort out the difference of opinion.
One of the fundamental piller in islamic jurisprudence is the concept of Tabanni or adoption (Not the child adoption). Without understanding this concept in detail and understanding who has the right to do adoption, In which areas adoption can be done and what are the rules about Mujtahid leaving His/Her (Yes Her as well)opinion, whether adoption can be part of penal code or not, whether islamic opinions can be cannonised or not, people should avoid passing comments on "many interpretation" concept.
The very reason we have so many different interpretations and opinions of Islam that people are unaware on the issue of Tabanni and sorry to say even Ulema are silent about it.
In my humble opinion and little knowledge that if this concept of Tabanni is widely discussed then Ulema themself will come under pressure not to give opinions willy nilly and there will be not so many interpretations. The ruling system in Islam has a direct link with the concept of Tabanni and I suspect some Ulema are worried that by discussing this in open way will erode their influence and ability to control the masses under the guise of islam.
So the problem is NOT the many interpretations of islam, it is absence of discussion on the concept of Tabanni.
FJ
