Pandangan para
pakar bidang
Membaca reaksi
segera (ya, semacam mi yang segera juga)
seorang Mufti, tentang syahid yang
sedang diperkatakan sekarang ini, kita jadi teringat kepada tulisan mantan
timbalan pengerusi National Intelligence Council di CIA. Untuk renungan bersama, kita petik pandangan mantan orang besar CIA
ini.
Sebelum itu, ada beberapa soalan yang memerlukan sedikit pencerahan, misalnya:
i) Apakah reaksi
segera ini 'fatwa'(?). Ia fatwa kerana ia datang dari mulut seorang yang pakar dalam
bidangnya?
ii) Kenapakah agaknya
orang-orang pakar seperti ini cepat benar berfatwa dalam sesetengah isu tapi
berkelakuan semacam burung pipit yang tuli dalam kes-kes yang lain?
iii) Soalan yang
tak kurang penting: Apakah pandangan para
pakar agama juga mestilah mengikut juzuk-juzuk isu tertentu saja? Jika ya, kenapakah begitu?
Sila renungi petikan di bawah ini:
Graham E. Fuller,
A World Without Islam, Little, Brown and Company, New York. 2010:245-246.
“The death of
Islamic intellectual vigor and curiosity ― an exhaustion of civilizational élan without dramatic new intellectual input ― led to the decline of creative thinking
in Islamic theology, philosophy, science, and technology. Ritual and narrow legalism came to triumph
over thought and inquiry in what passed for the study of Islam. Thinking ossified, inhibiting even the kind
of historical scrutiny of Islam’s own texts and sources of authority that was
possible in earlier centuries. This
atrophy of Muslim intellectual vigor was well demonstrated in the collapse of
Muslim science and, possibly more damaging, in a general passivity toward later
scientific and technological development in the West ― until the same technology landed on the
Muslim doorstep and overwhelmed it. Even
in the face of the West’s challenge, most Muslim reformers looked at the West
primarily as a warehouse of technological hardware, without grasping the need
for the all-important cultural and intellectual software that made it all
function”.
Mengikut http://www.thefreedictionary.com/,
perkataan bertanda merah ialah seperti berikut:
élan (1. Enthusiastic
vigor and liveliness. 2. Distinctive style or flair).
ossified (1. To
change into bone; become bony. 2. To become set in a rigidly
conventional pattern.
atrophy
(1. Pathology A
wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease,
injury, or lack of use: muscular atrophy of a person affected with paralysis. 2.
A wasting away, deterioration, or diminution: intellectual atrophy).
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