Inclination Toward Modernism by Severing Ties with Islamic Heritage: A Dangerous Trend

❖ Summary​

• Certain individuals dismiss the entire Islamic scholarly tradition as misguided, claiming exclusive ownership of the true understanding of the Qur’an.
• Their contradiction lies in asserting that “the Qur’an is easy to understand” yet also claiming that “no one understood it correctly for 1400 years.”
• This undermines Allah’s own promise to preserve and clarify the Qur’an for His Ummah.
• Interpretations influenced by modernist ideologies, detached from Islamic heritage, aim to merge Muslims into capitalist systems, and must be approached with caution.

❖ The Islamic Scholarly Tradition and Understanding the Qur’an​

It is astonishing to see individuals boldly invalidate the contributions of all past scholars — the Mufassirīn, Muhaddithīn, Fuqahā, and Sufis — branding their insights as naive or irrelevant.
They behave as though the Qur’an has now, for the first time, reached truly capable hands — their own — and it is now their task to unveil its true message.
This attitude ignores the fact that for over fourteen centuries, the Qur’an has been the central guiding light for the Ummah. Generations of scholars have studied it deeply, offering profound interpretations grounded in ilm, taqwa, and rigorous methodology.

❖ Intellectual Contradiction and Fallacy​

This contradiction becomes even more glaring when they claim:

• “The Qur’an is easy to understand and needs no interpretive framework,”
  yet
• they argue, “For 1400 years, Muslims misunderstood it.”

If no methodology is needed, then why introduce their own principles and impose them on others? This reveals a hypocritical tendency: to denounce tradition while simultaneously inventing new interpretive rules.

❖ Allah’s Promise and the Preservation of Qur’anic Understanding​

Allah says in the Qur’an:

إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا جَمْعَهُ وَقُرْآنَهُ

“Indeed, upon Us is its collection and recitation.” (Surah Al-Qiyāmah: 17)
This indicates not just the preservation of the text, but also the preservation of its understanding.
To claim that the Ummah failed to understand the Qur’an for centuries is to deny the Divine guarantee of its guidance and clarity.

❖ Modernist Interpretations and Their Real Motives​

The assumption that today’s modern interpreters are the first to correctly comprehend the Qur’an is a baseless and irrational assertion.
It reveals a break from Islamic intellectual heritage and an alignment with Western ideologies, aiming to dilute Islam’s identity and reconstruct it through capitalist frameworks.

❖ Modernist Exegesis and Capitalist Integration​

Any new interpretation of Islam that:

• is not rooted in the tradition of the pious predecessors,
• lacks a revivalist connection to the golden generations (Khair al-Qurūn), and
• seeks to reinterpret Islam through secular-modernist paradigms,

must be viewed with serious skepticism. These reinterpretations are not efforts at reform, but mechanisms of assimilation — designed to integrate Muslims into the global capitalist order by stripping away their historical and theological depth.

✿ Summary​

❶ Disregarding the Islamic scholarly tradition is a sign of intellectual arrogance and detachment.
❷ Claiming that the Ummah misunderstood the Qur’an for 1400 years is a denial of Divine preservation.
❸ Modernist reinterpretations often aim to dismantle Islamic heritage and merge Muslims into Western ideologies.
❹ Any Islamic interpretation detached from Khair al-Qurūn and classical tradition is highly suspect and dangerous.