KILL AND BE KILLED or LIVE AND LET LIVE
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'The gazelles have gathered in great numbers around Khirash to the extent that Khirash no longer knows which to hunt.'
An Arabic proverb applied to a person overcome by too many affairs, each one of equal priority/importance and thus, he is unsure which/where to begin with and which/where to defer. The origin of this proverb traces back to a hunter of gazelles known as Khirash. On one particular day, they gathered around him in great numbers whereby he became confused on how to confront the situation and which gazelle to hunt; upon that he uttered these words portraying the situation. Its relevance here is due to the presence of a number of opinions on one single issue causing confusion for the layman in need of a judgment. Imagine the impact on several or all issues. Amazingly, the ongoing sacrilege of deciphering suitable meanings from an historical/ancient point of view is revered tentatively to an alleged Allah's word to become contemporary and fresly woven pseudo fanaticism.
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Sparrows fight with their strategy. Vultures? screaming at the sparrows to adopt the war-method of the vultures will not work. If the vultures want to live, it should leave bothering the sparrows. What can the canaries do? Watching the tragedy of both sides.
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Peace Danish
By that rationale we should leave every philosophy, mathematical theory, scientific discovery, even Shakespeare because it was written so long ago by a people foreign to us and because there are so many ways of applying/interpretting their work.
Do we get confused in the face of many options and too many issues? Yes, but the next step is to work through all those options - not give up and call it all hogwash and be done with it.
Peace all
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Sparrows fight with their strategy. Vultures? screaming at the sparrows to adopt the war-method of the vultures will not work. If the vultures want to live, it should leave bothering the sparrows. What can the canaries do? Watching the tragedy of both sides.
Ah, very true, Prashant. And unfortunately all of them "nest on the same tree" defending and defining their boundaries.
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Peace Danish
By that rationale we should leave every philosophy, mathematical theory, scientific discovery, even Shakespeare because it was written so long ago by a people foreign to us and because there are so many ways of applying/interpretting their work.
Do we get confused in the face of many options and too many issues? Yes, but the next step is to work through all those options - not give up and call it all hogwash and be done with it.
Peace S2S,
Miscalculated comparative rationale, my friend. Were/are all philosophers, mathematicians, scientists, historians, musicians, physicians, et al, prophets of GOD and were/are their works/books/words absolute Allah's Words? Are you comparing Quran to other scholarships?
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Peace Danish
I am comparing quran to scholarly works only in the sense that they are both old texts from a time unlike our own, both in written form, and both require extensive research/study/investigation to understand.
If we are to eliminate any old text that is too difficult to understand because of its depth/choices of interpretation, we would be lost in a state of reinventing the wheel over and over again. Of course, I am viewing the quran strictly as a written text, as per the paramters that you have set up in the opening post. I'm not taking into account the authorship of the quran or the fact that it is meant to be a message for all times. Just in the strict sense of the term of it being an ancient text, we could still gleen valuable information from it. In other words, not all things complicated = useless as was the inference in your opening post
Peace all
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And unfortunately all of them "nest on the same tree" defending and defining their boundaries.
Exactly. So who is going to judge whom? It is power that decides. The fight is always there. The question is who is on which side? OR Who is neutral?