Fatehpuri hat schon zu seiner Zeit festgestellt, dass der Minderwertgkeitskomplex der Muslime, nachdem es kein großes islamisches Reich mehr gab, dazu geführt hat, dass sie sich nicht mehr weiterentwickelt haben. Außerdem war er gegenüber den Ahadith sehr kritisch, hat aber trotzdem Muhammad eine extrem wichtige Stellung eingeräumt.
Besonders interessant fand ich folgenden Absatz über die Hölle:
Außerdem habe ich vorher nicht gewusst, auf welche Art die Leute die Zakat vermeiden. Hat schonmal jemand davon gehört, ob das heute auch noch verbreitet ist?In the Qur’an though, hell’s fire is described in such graphic detail that no further explanation is needed. After reading this description, it seemed to him that God was like a tyrant or a vindictive being, who dealt with weaknesses harshly, as though our actions caused him some kind of personal injury. It was as if there was so much hatred and anger for us in His Heart that He could not even be satisfied when offenders were burnt to ashes but had to keep re-burning them for all eternity. Fateh{puri@ said if this description did not have an alternative meaning, then man’s reason would force him to hate this God, and if that is how He is, His qualities of mercy and blessings did not mean a thing.
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The “real” meaning, according to Fateh{puri@, was that if actions are good or bad, they have corresponding results on the doer’s psyche. Good actions make one feel satisfied and happy, while bad actions make one feel dissatisfied, alone and guilty.
Fateh{puri@ described one loophole that people used to avoid zaka@t. When the year is nearing its end, the husband declares all his assets under his wife’s name and when the next year-end approaches, the wife transfers them back to her husband, so that neither of them has enjoyed the assets for the year before the taxation date and are not, thus, liable for zaka@t. If the purpose of zaka@t is so clear and obvious, these frauds should not happen, but they do, and the reason for it was very clear in Fateh{puri@’s mind: it was only because Muslims did not understand the spirit behind the Islamic rulings. It is one thing to follow rules and another to understand their purpose and act on it. As he saw it, every religious act that Muslims performed in his day was carried out merely for the sake of ritual. The real purpose was not at the forefront of anyone’s mind. And this was why the religion of Islam had become spiritless; this was what was destroying the community.
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