"Esotericists also say that they support the Shari‘ah but at the same time they want to reform it, or diminish it, or do not want it here or now. They say they want salvation for mankind, but it is made clear that it can only be attained by themselves — the chosen group. All their reforms lead them to the philosophy of human rights, tolerance and the brotherhood of mankind. The ‘reformed Shari‘ah’ that has to comply with these esoteric principles is not the Shari‘ah of Islam. It is something new but they want to use the name Shari‘ah. So they refer to kafir institutions and instruments and they add the name of the Shari‘ah. “We want the Islamic Shari‘ah, we want a government ruled by Shari‘ah.” On examination what they want is their new reformed version, so they speak about Islamic human rights and Islamic tolerance. When they cannot stretch the Shari‘ah any further, having already denied the madhhabs and the established fiqh, they invoke ‘the spirit of the Law’ and ‘Islamic principles’. This is an esoteric technique known as symbolism. The Shari‘ah is represented by symbols or principles that allow further levels of introspective interpretation. Consequently they introduce symbolic explanations of what Jihad and usury mean. At the end of the day what matters is that behind their Islamic principles and their Islamic human rights is their unmitigated compulsion to preserve the banking system. Their task is to ‘islamise’ the banks, thus preserve capitalism and furthermore lure the Muslims into accepting capitalism. They deny banking but they affirm Islamic banking. They affirm the evils of capitalism but they are ready to ‘islamise’ capitalism. According to them, banks are not capitalist institutions they are simply services. According to them capitalism is wrong, but Islamic capitalism will be acceptable. Their Islamic capitalism is a capitalism with Islamic moral values, where Islamic banks have replaced un-Islamic banks. According to them, usury is a symbol that, regardless of what the Shari‘ah says, simply means interest. The result of all this is that the ruthless, intolerant and inhuman practice of usury, that is to say capitalism, is preserved by this esotericisation of religion. For this reason it is important to identify who they are and what they say, in order to recognise at once the different faces of what is one common belief."
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 04:50:10 +0000
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