The book: Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism

75 pages

• The verses of fighting are tied to a historical context
• Hadiths that deny the effect of deeds
• Father and mother are social relationships
• The umma is a bond of unified conduct
• Enjoining what is right is a call, not coercion
• Qur’anic commands are flexible in their mechanisms
• Consensus is not an absolute proof
• Terrorism, in Qur’anic terms, is deterrence, not killing
• Extravagance is exceeding the limit
• Islam is founded on righteous deeds
• Coercion is negated in religion
• Coercion contradicts God’s word
• Assassinations and the bombing of civilians are departures from fighting
• Disavowal has specific conditions and fields
• Disavowal is renunciation, not absolute enmity
• Wastefulness is exceeding the proper amount
• Prohibition belongs to God alone
• Legislation passes into ijtihad
• Mutual recognition is a divine purpose for making people nations and tribes
• Detail belongs to the sphere of human ijtihad
• God-consciousness is the criterion of superiority
• Jihad is broader than fighting
• Sovereignty means the bounds of prohibitions
• Sovereignty is a slogan for coercive authority
• The report about al-Jassasah and the Dajjal
• Freedom is the first aim of the sharia
• Apostasy is often a political conflict
• The message is the sphere of fixed rulings
• Salafism is an entryway to violence
• The prophetic Sunna is of two different types
• The people are a collective with a single order
• Martyrdom is not confined to the slain
• Martyrdom is not being killed in battle
• Worship includes the spheres of life
• Honor is dignity and public reputation
• Critical reason is the basis of understanding
• Deeds have an effect on the hereafter
• Emotions are not a normative criterion in creed
• The prescribed duty indicates specification and clarification
• Legitimate fighting serves freedom and justice
• Fighting is an emergency obligation, not an end
• Individual killing is not part of legitimate fighting
• The Qur’an is the only revelation
• The Muhammadan narrative is not general legislation
• Nationalism is a bond of language and thought
• The Book is not identical with the Qur’an in its signification
• Disbelief and polytheism are not absolute rulings
• Utterance, speech, and pronunciation
• The decisive verses represent the Mother of the Book
• Lineage is not a religious criterion
• Speech → the instrument of rational exposition
• Parents are biological, while fathers are educational
• Religious loyalty is non-exclusionary
• Doctrinal loyalty is tied to faith and righteous deeds
• Loyalty is an optional social relationship
• Loyalty does not mean submission to authority
• Loyalty and disavowal follow conduct
• Loyalty is multiple, according to levels of belonging
• Multiplicity of levels of belonging
• Defining death and ruin
• Defining ruin as final extinction
• The fixity of the text and the dynamism of understanding
• Three aims of Qur’anic fighting
• Freedom of choice is a principle in religion
• The heritage confused jihad, fighting, and raiding
• Confusing the cause with the aim turns fighting into permanence
• The cause of fighting differs from its aim
• God’s speech, direct and indirect
• God’s words are the laws of existence
• There is no contradiction between affiliations
• There is no worldly legal penalty for the apostate
• The objectives of the sharia are broader than five
• The objectives of the sharia are rights and freedoms
• Occasions of revelation are not legislative causes
• The state’s mission is confined to worldly affairs