The Qur’an is a transformative document - its power evident in the fact that it impacts significantly all who come across it - whether they consider it in a negative or positive light, whether they are hostile to it or devoted to it. And so it also becomes a battlefield, it’s words a vast, expansive landscape upon which men’s interpretations contend and struggle one against the other - an arena which has now bled off the pages and into the contending power politics of this world, where some with arms and bombs, with fatwas and hadith, with dogma and doctrine, with conflicting tafsirs and clashing hadith wage ideological wars one against the other and call this activity religion.
“Do not strike one part of the Qur’an with another….” (hadith)
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