The Scholars' Approach to Dealing with Jurisprudential Differences

Abstract

The extremism that the Islamic society suffers from is the result of an unusual application by a small group that monopolized their understanding of religious texts. Their understanding actually came as a response to extremism, and in their negative conduct toward Islamic issues. Extremism and exaggeration are outcomes of fanaticism, all of which are among the bad traits that Islam truly rejects. Among the detested forms of fanaticism are tribal, partisan, and sectarian fanaticism, where one becomes angry for their anger, pleased for their pleasure, and attributes a kind of sanctity or infallibility to their actions. Eliminating jurisprudential disagreement in issues of religious branches is contrary to divine wisdom, and it is a form of absurdity.