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Al-Hikmat Volume 36 (2016) pp. 1-19 Abstract. The over emphasis on the polemics among the sects weakened the tradition of theology in the Muslim world limiting. The act of imaginative speculations over the theological problems has decreased spectacularly, let alone the indifference towards the modern episteme, which has denied the contemporary theology a modern and understandable jargon. The grandeur that this tradition held was owed to the keen insight of its carriers into the contemporary knowledge forms. The growth in knowledge and the developments in consciousness were responded to form the perspective of religion and it was done with such depth and finesse that the denial of it would become the symbol of ignorance. Theologians would not only shape the brims of consciousness by responding to rationality but would enter into the center of it, rejuvenating, molding and shaping the basic questions with answers not rational to the mind only but satisfactory to the soul too, making it unnatural for the mind to deny the existence of transcendence (and by extension, God). Due to a plethora of reasons, this insightfulness, which was owed to the closeness of man with God, has almost ceased to exist and theology has become a set of arguments, plagiarized with a sheer lack of skill and knowledge. This is done with such unintelligence that the 1
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Al-HikmatVolume 36 (2016) pp. 1-19
Abstract. The over emphasis on the polemics among the sects weakened the tradition of theology in the Muslim worldlimiting. The act of imaginative speculations over thetheological problems has decreased spectacularly, let alonethe indifference towards the modern episteme, which hasdenied the contemporary theology a modern andunderstandable jargon. The grandeur that this tradition heldwas owed to the keen insight of its carriers into thecontemporary knowledge forms. The growth in knowledgeand the developments in consciousness were responded toform the perspective of religion and it was done with suchdepth and finesse that the denial of it would become thesymbol of ignorance. Theologians would not only shape thebrims of consciousness by responding to rationality butwould enter into the center of it, rejuvenating, molding andshaping the basic questions with answers not rational to themind only but satisfactory to the soul too, making it unnaturalfor the mind to deny the existence of transcendence (and byextension, God). Due to a plethora of reasons, thisinsightfulness, which was owed to the closeness of man withGod, has almost ceased to exist and theology has become aset of arguments, plagiarized with a sheer lack of skill andknowledge. This is done with such unintelligence that the
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arguments seem to force themselves on the others rather thanto convince. Due to these apparent trifles, theologydisconnected itself with the problems of its age and lost itstraditional status. In this bleak picture, a man came whorevived the traditional status of theology and made itefficiently effective on his age. He was Maulana Hafiz
Muhammad Ayyub Dehalvi. Key Words: Theology, Ayub, Time, Space, Rationality
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