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Originally Posted by sixpakistan
No, they weren't. Muhammad Asad based his views on the teachings of a Mutazilite scholar.
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And what's wrong with a Mutazilite? Do you even know what a Mutazilite is?
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Originally Posted by sixpakistan
It's inappropriate for those not learned in the Quran to attempt to give tafsir of it.
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Again, the Qur'an was meant to be interpreted by believers, hence it says "oh ye who believe" in various places, NOT 'oh scholars' or 'oh ulema'
if people blindly follow the ulema...bad things happen as seen here; a historical example of what happens when people blindly follow the ulema:
I am sure you are aware of the Ottoman Turks, who ruled the Ottoman Empire. Anyways, the ruling Ottomans are famous for their practices of having not only four wives, but hundreds of harems and concubines. Now I hope you agree that extramarital sexual relations are never permissible in Islam. So how could this be allowed? The ulema of the time permitted such practices and people blindly followed and committed zina to major extents.
Also, when the Ottoman Turks, forbade the slave trade of men and women, the ulema of Hijaz gave a fatwa saying that it was wrong to forbid slave trade, and even declared jihad against the Ottomans. So do you really believe that following these types of fatwas are the true Islam?