about Maulana munir hassan and this blog
Salaamz
Wuqiitun sharran wa laa laqiitum maa baqiitum dhurran
My name is munir hassan -
i am maulana (maulawi, aalim, faazil)
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My profound gratitude to all who developed blogging and all at WordPress for making this blog possible.
i must offer my apologies to masters of the pen who wrote excellently in the most adverse of conditions - Dostoevsky…
i would present myself as an islamologist.
The Arabic terms “maulawi”, ”aalim” and “faazil” denote levels of training in arabic and islamic sciences, they are here mentioned in ascending order.
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i was born in apartheid South Africa grew up as an abused orphan.
i live in an apartheid ~ neo – apartheid ghetto called Lenasia (Lenz for short), in neo – apartheid South Africa.
i am of shudra Gujarati origin and consider myself a gujarati indian.
The anti – muslim riots in gujarat, and the anti – muslim, anti -poor assaults and onslaughts affect me deeply.
My ancestors fled famine in india (see Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis published by Verso).
The militant, anti – muslim milieu in Gujarat in particular and in India at large and my honesty, ijtihaad, certainty (yaqiin) of the absolute equality of men and women, my questioning the grotesque(ugly) articulations of islam by the various very powerful, extremely violent hegemons … … make me an absolute exile, i am hounded, persecuted, denied employment, overtly and covertly opposed, brutally assaulted … Edward Said was professor at Columbia.
I have been trying to engage in ijtihaad (review / NEWview, revision / NEWvision) for many years - ijtihaad is ijtiHARD.
For more than 6 years now i live under the constant threat of brutal assassination.
i have been violently and brutally assaulted on numerous occasions.
On two occasions i survived, severly wounded, brutal assassination attempts. For more than six years i have not been able to sleep peacefully for one night, every creak, every sound scares me.
i live in perpetual fear.
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Why this Blog
There is simply no space, no oxygen in south africa, and i daresay the entire world, for exploring islam, muslimness …, for self analyses, interrogation …
in fact my experience is that these are met with violent opposition.
There are no vigorous, vibrant, investigative media (plural).
In fact exploration of islam and muslimness is discouraged and an extremely dangerous endeavor throughout the world.
i seek in this blog to:
offer some apologia to the quraan, my nabi, and (emotionally) to the mother of islam and my nabi, Aamina. i am Aamina – centered.
The apologia with reference to the quraan relates to the brutilization of the letter and spirit of the quran and the infinitely compassionate divine maternal love that is the animus and intent of Allah in the ii’haa / wahy, the in’zaal (life - giving rain).
In this blog i seek to:
call for a review of muslim practice and heritage, especially the legal and normative guidance offered by scholars of the past.
Quite simply i do not agree with the articulation of islam by the centers of power through, inter alia (amongst other things), their instruction, propaganda, indoctrination.
It is not sufficient to argue that there is some ideal, metaphysical, perfect diamond that is islam while in the heartlands of islam and in muslim communities around the world the islamic praxis is most unsatisfactory.
One key aspect of this anti – islamic articulation of islam is misogyny - the gross and subtle oppression of women. Not granting women EQUAL RIGHTS to men, in essence this deprives them of their humanity.
i have personally seen the effects of misogyny and know that these are most terrifying; misogyny produces illiterate begging widows. i have heard articulations of misogyny structured in islamic discourse, peppered with the names of allaah, the nabi, and threats of eternal damnation…
When these preaches are questioned they stir up violence against those who question them.
i call for the absolute equality of women in islam - women imaams, shaykhs, aayatullaahs, heads of state, ministers, ABSOLUTE EQUALITY.
Examples of misogy:
the demotion and constructive dismissal of, amongst others, Shireen Ebadi (Iranian) from her judicial post followed by the enactment of legislation that women cannot hold judicial posts in Iran - i condemn these unreservedly, they have no islamic basis whatsoever,
the prohibition to drive for women in Saudi Arabia - this is a human rights violation,
an inheritance regime that in certain permutaions gives women half of what men receive. this distribution must be amended to ensure equality between sexes.
i will comment on happenings in the muslim world, muslim society, on hadiith, Islamic law, fiqh and usuulul fiqh, explore the august Islamic heritage and call for giving attention to neglected figures (Ismail Bhey Gasprinski), Maulana Ali Monghiri.
This blog is an attempt to read the haamish and haashiyah (footnotes and margins carefully), to give the mukaffAr (the apostatized) a fair hearing..
This blog is one small LAA / NO to being driven to the poisoned by the hegemony, with their whips rods, lashes, cattle prods and guns and knives.
This blog is an effort at INVESTIGATIVE ISLAM, your material support can only help this grassroots effort.
I will record assaults, death threats . . . against me.
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islam is one thousand four hundred years “old” and has received the intellectual input of very diverse and sundry geniuses (and fools).
The muzlimuun’s (manufacturers of terrifying darknesses) demand that one confines oneself to this leader and those few paltry texts is an act of axphyxiation, one just cannot breathe for one zillionth of a nanosecond in that atmosphere.
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All of islam is my home, all texts are my birth right.
No – one has the right to ask me for a pass (dompass), call me to halt as i traverse the infinite emmensely rich universes is islam by pointing the machine gun of ”What is your Mazhab?” ”What is your Aqiidah?” “Who is your Piir?” - i prefer exile and suicide to this solitary confinement and abuse. i refuse to be an attic slave.
they wish to make a feral child - a wolf child - of me and Islam
Islam is not the fiefdom of any mutawally, any shaykh,
any millionaire, board of governors, any aayatullah, any
professor, any phd, any institute…
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every challenge to islam can be addressed, islam does not need bookburners, brownshirts, motorbike killers…
every criticism must be carefully heard
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* i need the help of wellwishers
* i am looking for friends in this odyssey
* i want to continue trying to honest, consistent. i need and plead for any help you can give me in this endeavor . . .
* i need and will greatly appreciate material support of any wellwisher
* no duas at all please, i cannot use these at all, they are not legal tender anywhere in the heavens and earths
do not underestimate the power of your support
* if you are from north America, Europe - please note that a few dollars, a few pounds, a few euros mean a lot to me
* if you are in South Africa you can even help me with food, clothing (used clothing also), writing material (pens, paper…), books…
* for years now i have been living in terrible food insecurity and am skating on the thin ice of homelessness
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your zakaat, sadaqa, lillaah, kafaarah can make a difference to me
i am in need of funds for my studies
