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| Please save Prophet Muhammad’s home |
| 08.19.05 (12:31 pm) [edit] |
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The Saudi government’s decision to demolish the home of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) to make way for the Jabal Omar Scheme, a project consisting of a parking lot, two 50-storey hotel towers and seven 35-storey apartment blocks, has evoked no response from the Muslim world. This is surprising, to say the least. The only voice that has been raised against the project is that of Saudi architect Dr Sami Angawi, who according to news reports, is on a one-man campaign against the very idea. Interestingly, the project is in the vicinity of the Grand Mosque. There are two broad aspects to be considered. While one relates to religion, the other is underscored by history and culture. Let’s consider both. Denominationally, Saudi Arabia practices Wahhabism, a ghair-muqallid (non-imitative) creed that does not follow the four recognised schools of Islamic fiqh. Its founder Abdul Wahhab stressed the need to return to the purity of religion. In practice, this has meant a rejection of history. In the centuries between Wahhab’s time and the time of the Prophet (pbuh), many bida’s (innovations) came to be injected into Islam. According to Wahab, these had to be eliminated in order to restore Islam to its pristine, ideological purity and glory. Not surprisingly, this emphasis on purity has led to debates over various issues at the micro level: graves cannot be bricked because tombs can be used by people of feeble faith for worship, which is shirk (worshipping anyone but one Allah); pictures are not allowed; mysticism is bida’; music is banned, and so on. In the early 1920s, the Saudis bulldozed and levelled a major part of Jannat-ul Baqi’, a graveyard in Medina that housed the graves of the family and companions of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). They did not finish the job because there was much protest in the Muslim world over the project. But today no voice has been raised against the Saudi government’s decision because Wahhabism has penetrated deeply into the Sunnis. One of the most ironic developments following the rise of Islamist groups is that even Sunnis — for instance Deobandis in South and West Asia who follow the Hanafi fiqh — are part of the Salafist (from Islaaf — forefathers) phenomenon that used to distinguish Wahhabis from those Sunnis that followed any of the four schools of jurisprudence. Increasingly, Islam in the Muslim world is manifesting symptoms of Wahhabism. Things that make you go "Hmmmmmmm..." http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_19-8-2005_ pg3_1" title="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_19-8-2005_ pg3_1" target="_blank"http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/... |
posted by: PastorDave (reply)
post date: 08.20.05 (4:43 am)
I have never heard about this, and I keep up with the news quite faithfully.
If this is truly his home, and recognized as such by the adherents of Islam, then I do not see how it would be possible to even consider laying a bulldozer to it. And it would deserve preservation for historical reasons alone.
