Islam: A Challenge to Religion

By Ghulam Ahmad Parwez

This book authored by Ghulam Ahmad Parwez in English was published in Lahore. The present work, the first of this author to be written in English, as its name suggests, is a study of the basic character of Islam, not as a religion, as it has been hitherto designated, but as a challenge to and a protest against all religion, which is another name of the historical entity called priestcraft, and which finds no sanction anywhere in the Quran. Islam is rather an enemy of priestcraft. The irony is that the tendency to priestcraft has slowly matured within Muslim society until it has taken hold of the entire area of Islamic belief and practice. Parwez's movement is one of the most vital forces in Muslim society which has taken the revolutionary stand of replacing once again, as in the beginning of Islam, the concept of religion by the concept which, in the terminology of the Quran, is called Deen . According to Parwez, Islam is not the name of individual subjective experience of a relationship with the Deity; it is essentially a 'Code of Life' in accordance with which the existence of the individual as well as the collective can have positive meaning and an un-interrupted evolution here-now and in the hereafter. It is only on the basis of permanent values of Islam that humanity can hope to develop and emerge out of the welter of purely pragmatic and amoral philosophies of action working in a limited temporal scale, without the sheet anchor of divinely inspired message, to provide them a total existential sanction. Much of the prevailing confusion in the world today is not because of the advancement of scientific knowledge, but because of the human reality and its dependence on the concept of Allah, Who is not only the Eternal Provider of sustenance and of knowledge, but also the Guide - for the best and the most rational means of creating order in the human condition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0D5LMJMD4
• ISBN13: 9798867551223
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.6" x 0.7" x 6.7"