Jews, Christians, and Muslims - Interfaith in an Age of Political Extremism and Religious Fundamentalism

Ovaj članak je fokusiran na međudjelovanje prirodne vjere (al-īmān), formalne ili umjetne religije (al-dīn) i umijeća politike (fann al-siyāsah) u islamu. Vjera (trust) u Boga je iskonska vjera (al-īmān) koju dijele svi ljudi svjesni da su Božija stvorenja kojima je Svevišnji Bog udahnuo Svog duha (al-rūḥ). To je potencijalna vrijednost vjere. Dakle, vjera u Boga je prirodna materija (hyle). Kao takva nema formu/oblik (al-ṣūrah ili al-šakl). Oblik materije vjere postaje religija (al-dīn) nakon što je instruktivna teologija oblikuje u dogmu, koja nije nužno u potpunoj saglasnosti s iskonskom materijom (hyle) vjere, ali ne može se reći ni da je oblik (al-ṣūrah ili al-šakl) religije (al-dīn), kao formalna teologija, potpuno lišen materije ili supstance prirodne vjere (al-īmān). Umijeće politike (fannu al-siyāsah), politike koja korisnika prirodno urođene vjere (al-īmān) i formalne religije (al-dīn) je u tome da čuva kontinuitet i potiče promjene u povijesti. U ovom procesu kontinuiteta i promjene mnoge su sile u islamskoj povijesti bile u igri i mnoge krize su se zbog toga javljale. Ovaj članak je pokušaj identificiranja ovih “silaˮ, fokusirajući se na fenomen povijesnih i suvremenih devijacija “ekstremizmaˮ u svijetu islama.This article is focused on the interplay of natural faith (al-īmān), formal or artificial religion (al-dīn), and the art of politics (fannu-l-siyāsah) in Islam. Trust in God is primordial faith (al-īmān), which is shared by all human beings in the conception of their creation by God who breathes His soul (al-rūḥ) into each and every human being as a potential trust in Him. Thus, trust in God is the matter (hyle) of faith. The faith is not yet the form (al-ṣūrah or al-shakl). The form of the matter of faith becomes religion (al-dīn), after it has been shaped by the art of theologians as an artificial theology, which is not necessarily wholly compatible with the primordial matter (hyle) of faith, but it cannot be said that the form (al-ṣūrah or al-shakl) of religion (al-dīn), as an formal or artificial theology, is totally void of the matter or substance of the natural faith (al-īmān). The art of politics (fannu-l-siyāsah) is an interplay between the natural faith (al-īmān) as a trust in God and the religion (al-dīn) as an formal or instructive  theology, which is, on the other hand, the play of continuity and change in history. In this process of continuity and change many forces in Islamic history have been at play and many crises have arisen. This article will try to identify these forces with a focus on the phenomenon of historical and contemporary deviational “extremism” in the world of Islam