Islam And Freedom of Thought

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من ارشيف تعليقات القراء 2009

name: Ali Tal
Islam and Freedom of Thought is a fantastic and scholarly book by the Islamist thinker Jamal el-Banna. His erudition and sheer breadth and scope of knowledge of the Qur‘an are truly astonishing. This remarkable piece of work is inherently interesting and topical that, from the first page, it reeks with the flavour and logic of the ‘Muslim Brotherhood’. Perhaps our acclaimed author did not intend to bring to mind his calm but extraordinary late (hanged by Nasser) older brother Hsin. Hsin el-Banna founded the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928 as a small social club in his village only to become one of the most crucial figures in the history of Egypt and indeed the Muslim world. The elder el-Banna sought the formation of an ‘Islamic System’ with a large dose of European socialism that would gradually reform civic, social, family, and educational organizations, which he believed had been torn apart by the Immoral Western Colonialism aided by a long list of quisling Muslim leaders. In many Arab countries the mild Muslim Brotherhood are the opposition and are unlikely to relinquish this role until they decides if they want to rule. We must not confuse Hsin El-Banna’s Muslim Brotherhood with Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Whab (1703-1792) conservative ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ that flourishes primarily in Arabia. The revisionist Muhammad Ibn Abd-al-Whab advocated bringing Islam back to its roots by removing what he considered innovations, decreeing that those who practice them are Kafir. The puritanical Ibn Abd-al-Whab ordered his followers to find those modernists and fight them to death or back to pre-third century (hijrah) Islam. Here is the prevailing paradox that haunts the West, al-Qaeda is a fusion of both ‘Muslim Brotherhoods’. Jamal el-Banna is clearly a thinker ahead of his time, making his own choices, flaunting convention, and taking control of his own destiny. Indeed, without the brothers El-Banna the course of Egypt’s modern history would be different. The well written and obviously well researched ‘Islam and Freedom of Thought’ tries to accomplish a seemingly impossible task, proving that freedom of worship and freedom of thought are proven components of Islam, though neither the Qur’an nor the Hadith mentioned the word ‘freedom’. Notwithstanding Jamal El-Banna’s mammoth task of trying to prove that apostasy (sometimes confused with treachery) is a free choice and has no punishment in Islam he fails to convenience. The book is meticulous and scholarly researched and has unearthed fascinating details, but is not the fact from the moment an individual believes in a faith he losses his freedom; that is to say religion and freedom are incompatible by definition. The mere fact that it is instituted that a man is a step above a woman, negates freedom of choice for the subordinate female. In our masculine civilization woman is always subjugated by the superior social position accorded to man.
Just out of interest, did Abd al-Latif el-Banna, the late Arab singer who was famous as a female impersonator in the 20s and 30s of the twentieth century, belong to the same talented el-Banna family?

name: د.فاطمة فوزي
الكتاب جيد في تناوله لحرية الاعتقاد من منطلق " لست عليهم بمسيطر " ؛ وذلك باعتبار أنت الحرية هي تنفيذ إرادة الفعل دون قهر خارجي أو داخلي ، ولكن الكتاب - برغم ذلك ـ يثير العديد من التساؤلات ؛ فهل الاعتقاد هو كل الفكر ؟ ربما تكون فكرة الألوهية هي أهم فكرة تقود خطى الإنسان ، ولكننا نحتاج لأن نعرف بدقة كل المجالات التي ينطبق عليها مصطلح فكر !حتى نقرر مع الكاتب مدى الحرية الممنوحة لها في القرآن والسنة .
وهل ما فعله أبو بكر رضي الله عنه في قتال المرتدين يخالف صريح القرآن وينطوي على بعد سياسي أكثر منه ديني .. نحتاج لمزيد من التعمق والعديد من وجهات النظر الهادئة ؛ لنقرر في ضوء سجال الأفكار ما نختار !
ومن منطلق التساؤلات السابقة وغيرها يعد الكتاب جيداً ؛ لأن الكتاب الذي يتناول ثوابت دينية ويعيد النظر فيها بما يخلخل قناعات القاري ، ويجعل القاري يلهث وراء علامات استفهام .. هو كتاب جيد حيث يغري بمزيد من المعرفة والسعي لاكتسابها

name: بنت النيل
أشكر المنتدى على هذا الاختيار الجرئ ومع أنني لا أتفق مع الاستاذ جمال البنا في كل ما ذهب اليه وشطحاته مثل جواز التدخين في رمضان، إلا أن هذا الكتاب بالذات جيد جدا ويؤسس لفكر إسلامي متحضر، وكلما أشاهد
سرعة انتشار النقاب في الشارع المصري أشعر أننا نعود الى الوراء بدلا من أن نتقدم ولذلك أشكر للأستاذ جمال أنه يبرئ الدين الاسلامي من هذه الافكار الرجعية.

name: محمد عابد
صدمت كثيرا من اللهجة التي يستخدمها بعض الشيوخ في انتقاد جمال البنا، فإذا كانت البذاءة اللفظية غير مقبولة من أي مسلم فإنها من باب أولى غير مقبولة من رجال الدين.

name: Hamid
The book of Mr. J. El Banna about freedom in Islam shed light on terror related to total islamization of societies since 14 centuries. The results were and are disastrous on 1.5 billion persons or 25% of the world population. Indeed, this disastrous situation will be exponentially increased in the future as long as governments of Islamic states are closings eyes for their own existence. As far as the book is concerned, it is a good historical research and is of academic interest only. The voice of Mr. Jamal el Banna is difficult to be heard in societies with religion hysteria. I do not understand what does it mean Islamic secularism (eg. page 165). Secularism is the complete isolation of the state from hysteric religions as it happens in all civilized and developed world and there is no other definitions. I do not agree with the author statements on the influence of secularism application on western societies (p 174). The author mentioned that the beginning of development was depending of misusing east wealth. Without the west all Islamic countries should be very similar to Afghanistan, Yemen. Without the west no rich oil countries. Without the west even the author would not be able to write down his article. So let us be more realistic and rational in assessing the west. Japan, China, India are doing very well without these statements. Throughout reading the book I didnot find a clear opinion of the author if any born human being is free to select and/or change his or her religion, including Buddhism, Hinduism or not at all. This is the real freedom of mind and thinking without mental terror. Otherwise I appreciate the trial of the author and wish more freedom in writing as in the west without the knife of shariaa and similar terms. Good luck for the author

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Islam like christianity and judaism before it need reformation. The argument that there
is no such need because there is no church in islam, is nonsense. Seriously who are you
kidding?
The religious establishments in Islam are more powerful and despotic today than the
catholic church ever was.

name: Rita
What the great thinker Gamal Banna is trying to tell us is so logical and so basic that I
find it shameful that he needed to say it in the first place.

name:
كلام فارغ في فارغ واختيار سئ جدا استغفر الله عليكم ومن افكاركم المسمومة.

name:
الفكرة المحورية التي يطرحها المفكر الكبير جمال البنا هي ضرورة التفرقة بين النص القرآني والتقاليد التي كانت سائدة في العصور الأولى للإسلام، والتي فسر الفقهاء الأولون الآيات القرآنية على أساسها، لذلك أتفق معه
تماما في أن الحجاب ليس فرضا دينيا أنما زي كان شائعا في ذلك الوقت.

name:
جمال البنا مفكر إسلامي جليل يريد أن يحرر الدين من قبضة رجال الدين وهو السبب الرئيسي للهجوم الشنيع الذي يشنه هؤلاء عليه.

name: Sarah Mortada
The Islamic world needs to liberate itself from the shackles of the past that have so far
hindered its development despite the enormous resources at its disposal.
The first step must surely be to stand up to the sheikhs and their stoneage ideas.
Thankyou arabworldbooks and a million thanks to gamal elbanna.

name: Khaled Mohamed
سوف يذكر التاريخ أن جمال البنا قد سعى لإصلاح ما أفسده أخوه الأكبر حسن البنا خاصة بعد أن سمم سيد قطب أفكار الجماعة المحذورة ولكنه للأسف يعاني في الحاضر كما عانى كافة المصلحين من قبله.

name:Aly Zulficar
I have no respect for Jamal el-Banna, and I believe you should ban his anti-Islam views
from your very respectable site.
Best regards.
Aly