Читать книгу The Reformation of Islam - Lorin Jenis - Страница 4

Islam requires its followers to believe that the Qur’an contains the unerring word of Allah and must not be criticized. In fact, Sharia law specifically states that a Muslim who criticizes the Qur’an may be sentenced to death; and heresy and apostasy are likewise subject to the death penalty. Lorin Sandor Jenis knows intuitively and instinctively that such laws were not derived from God.

A careful reading of his essays will reveal that Mr. Jenis has only the welfare of Islam at heart. The problem is that Islam is still a medieval religion. Mr. Jenis is a new kind of Muslim because he does something very simple, something commonplace in Judaism and Christianity---he evaluates his religion’s sacred text and finds that it is a fallible work, divinely inspired but human in its execution.

There certainly must be a way to go beyond an imperfect Qur’an to find an individual, unmediated relationship with Allah. Sometimes Islam helps, and sometimes it hinders us as we search for that relationship.