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Islam Does Not Support Personality Worship and Views of Islamic Scholars Should Not Be Blindly Accep

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  • 1.    Maulana Aslam Jairajpuri did not believe that Vedas are revealed books.
  • 2.    Maulana Maududi did not support the idea of Dajjal.
  • 3.    Maulana Wahiduddin Khan did not believe in the idea of Shafa’at.
  • 4.    Dr Tahir ul Qadri believes that even Muslims can be killed for blasphemy.

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Islam does not support personality worship. No scholar however great can be an authority to make a law on his own that does not have support from the Quran or the Sunnah. His opinion on any issue relating to religious affairs should be supported by the Quran and the Sunnah to be accepted by the common Muslims. But over the centuries some religious scholars and exegetes were accorded cult status and they were considered authority on religious matters and on the issue of interpretation of the Quranic verses. Therefore, religious scholars of 9th or 10th century or of later stage were given a universal recognition before whom the opinions or views of latter day scholars did not hold much water. It was presumed that knowledge had frozen in the tenth century and no scholar of later periods could have a better knowledge or authority of Islam in comparison to them.  This caused a lot of confusion in religious matters of Muslims because different scholars gave different views and opinions on religious matters and the sects and groups considered the view and opinion of their cult figure the only correct interpretation.

The fact is that the scholars of the 9th century interpreted the verses of the Quran according to the exigencies of their period and on the basis of the scientific and social or political developments of their time and so they were considered an authority on Islam in their period. Similarly, scholars of the modern age also interpreted and explained the Quranic verses according to the social, political and scientific developments of their time.  It is popularly said that ‘to err is human’. So any human being, with however great and deep knowledge and insight may make mistakes because human mind is not perfect and every scholar has his own way of thinking and intellectual inclination. Therefore, if a particular scholar and exegetes is given cult status and he is considered absolute authority on Islam, his view and opinion on any issue relating to Islam is considered sacrosanct, it may lead to confusion and even may lead to a false belief.

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