Issues of Ijtihad

What is Peace? hand, those who fail to find God suffer the maximum possible deprivation, and then nothing can cure them of their sense of deprivation. Positive Status Quoism No sooner do you want to do something than you find yourself faced with some hurdle or the other. This happens in the case of individuals as well as entire communities. Now, one way to react to this is to first fight against these hurdles in order to try to get rid of them and then to begin whatever work one wants to. This is what is conventionally called ‘radicalism’. Radicalism seems to appeal to certain highly emotional people, people with a proclivity to extremism. Yet, it is not useful for any sort of positive purpose. Radicalism is effective only for destruction, not for construction. Radicalism not only causes the destruction of an existing system, but it also leads to the destruction of social traditions that have evolved over centuries. People are subjected to unspeakable horrors because of the bloodshed and disruption wrought by radicalism. Experience shows that although it may appear attractive at the ideological level to some people, in terms of its practical consequences, radicalism has nothing positive about it at all. Another way to respond to the challenges one inevitably faces in life is to totally avoid confrontation with a given situation, and, instead, to plan one’s efforts remaining