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Description / الوصف
On the eve of bidding farewell to the nineties, the Islamic internal sphere—through its publications and specialized seminars—was abuzz with extensive discussions and diverse treatments regarding the need for renewal and the legitimacy of revision. There was an eager welcome for any theses or invitations in this context. These theses, for the most part, were affiliated theses that adhered to Sharia standards, presenting renewal with the aim of enhancing the Islamic presence and extending it to new areas—not renewal aimed at displacing religious content or diminishing its existence. However, after the events (of September 2001), the tone of the renewal discourse began to change its warmth, although it still revolved within the conditions of the Islamic internal sphere. By the time Baghdad fell at the beginning of (2003), many banners of affiliation had already fallen, and many of those renewal voices had withdrawn from the Islamic internal sphere to an entirely different camp. It is true that there are still renewal figures who maintain their religious steadfastness and political independence—and they are many, praise be to God—before whom one stands with sincere reverence. However, we must clearly acknowledge that matters have evolved with many pens of civil discourse towards painful outcomes, where an observer’s eyes almost whiten with sorrow as they witness their growing recklessness! Many of those youthful, vibrant energies that began their journey with warm, da’wah-inspired language have today—and alas—adopted explicit secular positions, practically neutralizing the role of religious text in public life, immersed in opposing religious fatwas and causing disruption around them. They have been dragged into playing the role of court scribes, squandering their dignity and composing flattery, becoming irritable with faith-based language and ridiculing it, avoiding the metaphysical dimension in interpreting events. Some have even gone as far as to express objections reflecting deep anxiety about major existential questions. This segment has replaced the reference to evidence with the reference to permissibility wherever found, regardless of whether it fulfills the divine purpose or not. They have shifted from being concerned with developing Islamic discourse to politically betraying it, commenting behind every security incident with inciting language against everything Islamic, and have become obsessed with unjustly linking events of violence to da’wah institutions.