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Speaking after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Al-Azhar University head Sheikh Mohammed Sayyid Tantawi Tantawy said, "It's not courage in any way to kill an innocent person, or to kill thousands of people, including men and women and children." He also said that Osama bin Laden's call for a Jihad against the west was "invalid and not binding on Muslims", adding "Killing innocent civilians is a horrific, hideous act that no religion can approve". He said the Qur'an "specifically forbids the kinds of things the Taliban and al-Qaida are guilty of".
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"...whosoever killeth a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind, and whoso saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind." (5:32)
"The only reward for those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom..." (5:33)
The first part (5:32) sounds like a prohibition against murdering any innocent human being, but the second part (5:33) permits the killing of non-Muslims under many circumstances (corruption/kufr) according to the Qur'an.
Too bad Sheikh Mohammed Sayyid Tantawi didn't elaborate on his comments regarding "innocent people", did he mean the innocent Muslim, since the Qur'an considers non-Muslims guilty (
Harbi) ? Or did he mean non-Muslims as well?
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And IIRC it notes in the introduction that 75-80% of Sunni Islamic Jurisprudence is identical... T-Rock can find the exact quote... my copy is packed up with the move right now...
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I'll find the exact page when I get home but this probably applies - in regard to "The Reliance of the Traveller"
“We certify that the above-mentioned translation corresponds to the Arabic original and conforms to the practice and faith of orthodox Sunni Islam (Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jam’ah)” Al-Azhar.
“There is no doubt that this translation is a valuable and important work, whether as a textbook for teaching Islamic jurisprudence to English-speakers, or as a legal reference for use by scholars, educated laymen, and students in this language.” Dr Taha Jabir al-‘Alwani, President of the International Institute of Islamic Thought.
FWIW,
Taha Jabir Alalwani is the co-founder, together with Dr.
Yusuf al Qaradawi (the reformer?), of fiqh al-aqalliyyat (Muslim minority jurisprudence) which stands for making fiqh easy in order to enable Islam to spread in the West.
Edited to add, pg. vii, the introduction of “The Reliance of the Traveller” basically states: “The four Sunni schools of Islamic Law, Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, and HanbalI, are identical in approximately 75% of their legal conclusions..” and that “the field of Hadith, for example, who were Shafi’is are such scholars as Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmidhi, Nasa’I, Ibn Majah, Abu Dawud, Ibn Kathir, Dhahabi, and Nawawi..”