Book Title: Ethnicity and Religious Heritage
Author(s): T U Mehta
Publisher: T U Mehta

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________________ Sufism-The Essence of Islam from the Hijarat of the prophet to Madina. "Mutzilah" means protestants. They refused to doggedly adhere to the verbal meaning attached to the words of the Koran and Hadith, as was done by the religious clerics. They believed that since every product takes the qualities of the producer, man who as the product of the Almighty, possesses all the qualities of the Almighty. They also believed that the man is entitled to work out his own destiny. They further emphasised that it is not God who desides what is good or bad because it is the inherent quality of every thing which decides what is good or bad. This approach is very much similar to the Jain philosophy which defines "Dharma" as the inherent quality of every thing. ("Vastu Sahavo Dhammo" i.e. intrinsic nature of every object is its religion - this is the basic doetrive of Jainism). 143 (Vide: history of Muslim philosophy, Vol. 1, Chapt. X by M. N. Sharif) This line of thinking was not in harmony with the interpretations accepted by the traditionalists. Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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