Rate before the law religious, a believer shall firstly humble in listening .
Perhaps thanks to God now understand the meaning and usefulness of a precept, and then there assentirà and apply without any hesitation. But it can also be, on the contrary, that they do not understand either the meaning or usefulness, and that doubt crept into his heart. Here is triggered as a matter of priority.
first is the divine dignity of the law or the dignity of my rational understanding?
Islamic tradition along a middle way. Does not require a blind acquiescence, automatic, unthinking, the Law that the Creator has placed in the heart of His creatures, nor encourages a messy "free will" and referring to subjective preference and individual understanding, of course, limited and partial. Requires a rather deep meditation of the divine precepts, a constant effort to understand personal adherence to be obedient and aware at the same time.
The law is not a dark and ominous cloud above the believer, but it is the vehicle, the pace and path of the Lord has equipped believers, so that they can tornare a Lui, se Lui vuole.
Un precetto divino è una pietra miliare, un punto di ristoro su un cammino altrimenti buio, sconosciuto ed attraversato da insidie. Se si ha fede nell'esattezza di questa scansione, vi si atterrà con perizia, ed allora il suo scrupoloso rispetto permetterà una migliore intelligenza del proprio percorso. Se invece si pretende di poter cambiare, spostare, risistemare a proprio piacimento questo sistema di riferimento, inevitabilmente si finirà per fare confusione, se non proprio perdere la direzione.
Il rapporto tra il credente è la Legge religiosa dovrebbe dunque essere improntato innanzi tutto all' umiltà , Which encourages obedience, and gratitude that generates concern. Almost like an ice cube that approached patiently and tenaciously to a flame, the believer will evolve and refine itself, gradually and with God's help, the quality of his life, the dignity of his works, the understanding of one's original nature .
Today we tend to easily reverse the terms. The touchstone privileged becomes his own personal opinion, his own individual feel, culturally specific, historically defined, according to which religious law - rather than a sincere believer considers divine and therefore eternal in its principles founding - is then judged, criticized, restoring, "interpreted".
It thus tends to forget or ignore that the interpretation has to be an effort loyalty, long before an attempt to adapt ; a scrupulous adherence to the spirit of a divine precept, rather than attempting to make this precept "acceptable" from a cultural context different from the original.
The law needs to be listened to and meditated, well-judged and criticized before, demand humility and devotion before the presumption of understanding and arbitrary application. In a religion, the Word of God is always priority, and this is no competitor or alternative to the "personal life lived" but it is the Section most essential and precious, and therefore also more hidden and discreet.
E ', however, to disclose their compliance with the grace of obedience intelligence. And 'the practice of a rule that allows the understanding, as well as the invocation is faithful to secure your comprehensive answer. E 'in this spirit that the prophet Ezekiel said, "Who wants obey obey, and who does not want to obey ( Ez 3:27), that the disciples of Jesus, to his call," pull boats earth, left everything and followed him "(Lk 5:11 ) and the messengers of the Most said: We have heard and obeyed! ( al-Baqarah II: 285 ).
is a prerequisite to any approach to this or that aspect of religious law, and as such requires to be understood as a first 'indication on a spiritual journey, and only later examined in its historical and social, that are relevant.
