RLG204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Khawarij, Kafir, Kalam
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It means that religion must help your life, anything that makes your life more complicated is against islamic rule: common good has preference over self-interest. If faced with two evils, the lesser one is to be chosen: what leads to something forbidden is itself forbidden. Theology and philosophy: the most important theological and philosophical questions in islam happened within political context, the rise of islamic empire, the p(cid:396)ophet"s death a(cid:374)d the (cid:395)uestio(cid:374) of the leade(cid:396)ship of the muslim community, missed one point. Moderate measurement is acceptance of whoever says they are muslim into the community whole radical interpretation says that they should use their measurement to expel true nonbelievers out of their society. The decline of the murjites and its achievements: seen as heresy by sunni majority, they argued: it was impossible for a belief to remain intact when one commits crimes.
