Month: July 2014

Understanding Ramazan: Fasting in Allah’s Paradigm

By Awaam At another place we have argued that establishing Allah’s discourse in Islam is the first and the most fundamental requirement for Islamic renaissance. This was the dominant and main discourse, in fact perhaps the only discourse that defined and governed Prophet’s life and time there in. What we mean by ‘Allah Paradigm’ is , as human beings, to try to think, imagine and visualize, with all our limitations, inabilities and frailties, how and why the Creator Almighty has revealed his Word to us ? And why has he endowed us with the faculty of Reason (aql) to understand Him through His word? Allah’s paradigm is about Humanity and life in this world. Unlike the dominant paradigm in Islam at present which is Human theological paradigm which is about God and life hereafter and offers very little about this world. Allah’s paradigm is to try and understand the reason and purpose behind Creation of Universe, Life, Human beings in a way that is different from the dominant discourse in Orthodox Islam. It is an …