Summary Article: Alternatives of Conflict
Written by: Sayed Muhammed-Ali Al-Helu
Translated by: Mujtaba Al-Helu
Oppression is the cornerstone of historical contexts, by which oppressive minds have been created to produce oppressive intellectuality as well.
The genesis of this conflict, in fact, emerged in the struggle of the prophets (P.B.U.T) when confronted detailed arguments and mockery. These demeaning attitudes resulted in oppressive ethics, to be inherited by the successive generations to work as instinct obliterators and insight erasers.
This oppression changed shape to adopt an intellectual appearance, depending on Islamic theological heritage, to result in extremism, injustice, and the marginalization of the other.
As a reaction, a generation of writers have emerged to express their distress by attributing their frustration to Islam, as a religion of calamity, a religion of no enlightenment. This generation of writers strived to produce theories that marginalize religious intellectual heritage.
The tragic flaw of these writers lies in the fact that they failed to diagnose the real problem, which is the false interpretation of Islamic teachings. As a result, these writers rejected the entire Islamic intellectual heritage, as a reforming move, and replaced it with other modern ideologies. As a matter of fact, these writers have missed an Islamic fundamental principle, which is the refusal of any sort of religious extremism, in order to generate a more moderate society. This taming of Man comes from the concept of ‹awaiting› and the Promised hope, which are proposed by Mahdism.
Thus, this reforming belief proposes theoretical and experimental solutions politically, economically, and socially. In this regard, of these enlightenment writers go back to the notion of Mahdism, and reevaluate their conclusions, they would find all their reformative aspirations in the concepts mentioned above.
