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The Darul Uloom , Deoband , the founder of the Darul Uloom system , is the leading and greatest Islamic university in India with branches all over the world - one of the world leaders in Islamic education ( maybe the world leader ) , and it defines the Indian school of Islamic jurisprudence .
They have a nice website ( in four languages ) . On their home page itself , they have a link to form where you can submit a query which they will answer for you . Anybody can just go and request a fatwa - even you can !
These people are THE authority on Islam - they have many brilliant scholars who have spent their entire life studying different aspects of Islam . If anyone can be considered an authentic source of information on Islam , these people are IT . They are the central authority , the people who write the curriculum for most Darul Ulooms around the world .
There are a number of Muslim people on this board who can approach them directly as believer to believer . Most of us here are , however , kafirs , so I know not whether they will reply to a query from us , but I hope they will be openminded enough to at least acknowledge our queries , if not answer them .
I have created this thread for two reasons . The first is that I am going to submit a query to the Darul Uloom Deoband using their e-mail address , without giving my physical address . This thread will be to discuss that query , and to discuss the results of ( or rather , answer to ) that query . The second will be to give a place for others who have also queried them to post their queries and the answers they have received ( so that a query is not duplicated - I have no wish to inundate the Darul Uloom with repeated queries from kafirs ) .
I've played around with the wording in order to make the query sound believable ( though I've made very sure that I've not told an actual lie
) - forgive me for that .
My query is as follows ( and the Muslim person I mention in the query is Capulet ( a Muslim guy on another forum I frequent ) ) :
Respected sir ,
Firstly my apologies for not knowing the proper mode of greeting which a non-believer must adopt towards a believer . I hope you will overlook that lapse .
Let me set out at the very beginning , so as not to decieve you , that I am not a believer myself ( I am of the Hindu faith ) , but am requesting your help with regard to a Musalman friend of mine who seems to me to be deviating from the path which is correct for a Musalman .
The situation which required your help is as follows : in my many discussions with my Musalman friend , sometimes the topic of the Quran is raised . He is of the view that the verses in the Quran which mention Prophet Mohammed's ( PBUH ) struggle to banish idolatry from Arabia , and to establish Islam there , through great struggle ( Jihad ) , are not applicable to the modern world , and that the pronouncements concerning kafirs given in the Quran are not applicable to the modern scenario because they were meant only for the time of the Prophet ( PBUH ) .
I disagree with him here . I tell him that , the Quran being the eternally valid and infallible word of Allah , he cannot dismiss it by merely saying that it was meant for only one time , or only one place , or only one person . I think that it is wrong for a true Musalman to dismiss the Quran's pronouncements on treatment of kafirs , or on striving to make the whole world Dar-ul-Islam as the Prophet ( PBUH ) did to Arabia , as meant for only one time . I fear that he may be deviating from the religious path he , as a Musalman , is supposed to follow .
He , however , refuses to accept that . It is my hope that a fatwa from an authority as eminent as yourself will finally convince him that he is in error . If it turns that it is I who am in error , than a fatwa from yourself shall be enough to convince me of my error also .
Yours Sincerely ,
Aneesh Mulye
The Darul Uloom , Deoband , the founder of the Darul Uloom system , is the leading and greatest Islamic university in India with branches all over the world - one of the world leaders in Islamic education ( maybe the world leader ) , and it defines the Indian school of Islamic jurisprudence .
They have a nice website ( in four languages ) . On their home page itself , they have a link to form where you can submit a query which they will answer for you . Anybody can just go and request a fatwa - even you can !
These people are THE authority on Islam - they have many brilliant scholars who have spent their entire life studying different aspects of Islam . If anyone can be considered an authentic source of information on Islam , these people are IT . They are the central authority , the people who write the curriculum for most Darul Ulooms around the world .
There are a number of Muslim people on this board who can approach them directly as believer to believer . Most of us here are , however , kafirs , so I know not whether they will reply to a query from us , but I hope they will be openminded enough to at least acknowledge our queries , if not answer them .
I have created this thread for two reasons . The first is that I am going to submit a query to the Darul Uloom Deoband using their e-mail address , without giving my physical address . This thread will be to discuss that query , and to discuss the results of ( or rather , answer to ) that query . The second will be to give a place for others who have also queried them to post their queries and the answers they have received ( so that a query is not duplicated - I have no wish to inundate the Darul Uloom with repeated queries from kafirs ) .
I've played around with the wording in order to make the query sound believable ( though I've made very sure that I've not told an actual lie
) - forgive me for that .My query is as follows ( and the Muslim person I mention in the query is Capulet ( a Muslim guy on another forum I frequent ) ) :
Respected sir ,
Firstly my apologies for not knowing the proper mode of greeting which a non-believer must adopt towards a believer . I hope you will overlook that lapse .
Let me set out at the very beginning , so as not to decieve you , that I am not a believer myself ( I am of the Hindu faith ) , but am requesting your help with regard to a Musalman friend of mine who seems to me to be deviating from the path which is correct for a Musalman .
The situation which required your help is as follows : in my many discussions with my Musalman friend , sometimes the topic of the Quran is raised . He is of the view that the verses in the Quran which mention Prophet Mohammed's ( PBUH ) struggle to banish idolatry from Arabia , and to establish Islam there , through great struggle ( Jihad ) , are not applicable to the modern world , and that the pronouncements concerning kafirs given in the Quran are not applicable to the modern scenario because they were meant only for the time of the Prophet ( PBUH ) .
I disagree with him here . I tell him that , the Quran being the eternally valid and infallible word of Allah , he cannot dismiss it by merely saying that it was meant for only one time , or only one place , or only one person . I think that it is wrong for a true Musalman to dismiss the Quran's pronouncements on treatment of kafirs , or on striving to make the whole world Dar-ul-Islam as the Prophet ( PBUH ) did to Arabia , as meant for only one time . I fear that he may be deviating from the religious path he , as a Musalman , is supposed to follow .
He , however , refuses to accept that . It is my hope that a fatwa from an authority as eminent as yourself will finally convince him that he is in error . If it turns that it is I who am in error , than a fatwa from yourself shall be enough to convince me of my error also .
Yours Sincerely ,
Aneesh Mulye
@ the one-trick-pony.
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