الإيمان الخاص يتأتى بالبحث الدائم. وصلت إلى قناعاتي المتأخرة بعد زمن طويل من القراءة، والبحث، والمقارنة حول ما كان يعترض نفسي من إشكاليات ثقافية أو دينية، في مستويات سنية مختلفة، مع يقيني أنني في كل يوم أكتسب فيه معرفة جديدة سوف أكون في شأن معرفي متغير.
وقد تعلمت - مبكراً - أن العلوم الإنسانية قابلة للرفض أو الإقناع، ومهما كانت العلوم الإنسانية مختلفة التوجهات يمكن لك الارتهان لما وصلت إليه من قناعة تخصك، ومع القراءات العديدة تحصنت بقاعدة الشك، هذا المحرك الذي يجعلك في حركة دائبة للبحث، والتقصي، ولم أعد أرتهن لمعطيات أي معرفة ما لم ألجأ إلى قراءة الفكرة ونقيضها، وأستل لنفسي قناعة خاصة ربما أرتهن إليها لفترة، وإذا ظهرت معارف جديدة تنقض ما اطمأنت إليه النفس سرعان ما أقتفي (الديالكتيك) في البحث عما يناقض الفكرة المستحدثة، وفكرة (الديالكتيك) ليست بشرطية الفيلسوف هيقل، وإنما بما يوصلني إلى قناعة تمكنني من الاستقرار النفسي، حتى لو كانت لفترة وجيزة، وإن اعتراني الاهتزاز اليقيني بالفكرة المتأخرة فليس لدي مانع من البدء في البحث من جديد.
وإذا أدرجنا مفهوم الاقتناع بأنه حالة خاصة، يمكن وضع مفهوم الإيمان بأنه حالة خاصة أيضاً، ولهذا ليس من حق أي إنسان السعي إلى خلق حالة اهتزاز لقناعات الآخرين.
وهنا يظهر سؤال (ليس حتمياً وإنما للاستيضاح): إذن ما جدوى الكتابة، أو نشر الوعي، أو نقض الأفكار، أو الرسالة التي على المثقف النهوض بها، وتعميمها، أو إشاعتها؟
وسبق أن قلت طرأ (هذا) في بالي وأنا أشاهد برنامجاً دينياً لأحد الشباب يعيد ما تم نقضه من أحاديث أو بعض من سيرة الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم، ومع مشاهدتي للبرنامج تذكرت أنني أدمنت المطالبة بتنقية السيرة النبوية وبعض الأحاديث التي رانت في العقول - على علاتها - مشترطاً أن تلك التنقية من خلال مؤسسة دينية إسلامية تضم جل علماء العالم الإسلامي، من أجل تخليص الموروث الكتابي من الشوائب التي التحمت به حتى وصلت إلينا على أنها حقيقة مطلقة.
ومع سقطات الشاب في حديثه المعتمد على أحاديث ضعيفة أو أحاديث تسيء إلى الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم، أو سير مكذوبة، أصررت - بيني وبين نفسي - أن أكتب مقالة (بل عدة مقالات) فحواها أننا نجتر الثقافة الدينية اجتراراً من غير تمحيص أو قراءة الكتب التي وقفت عند الأحاديث والسيرة والحوادث التاريخية التي تم إسقاط مصداقية بعضها، والتشكك من بعضها، أو على الأقل الوقوف على الأحاديث (قطعية الدلالة أو ضنية الدلالة)، فمعرفة الشاب كفيلة به أن يبتعد عما يمكن له من تثبيت أمور عارية من الحقيقة، فمعرفته تلك تبعده عما يمكن اعتباره ظني الدلالة أو حديثاً مغلوطاً أو جزءاً من سيرة تعلقت بها الأكاذيب.. كي لا يجتر هذا الجيل ما قمنا باجتراره عبر سنوات طويلة حتى وصلنا إلى قناعة ما تم تضعيفه أو اعتباره من الأحاديث المغلوطة في أصلها مع أنها تسير على ألسن الكثير من الناس.
وحين أتذكر المثل الشعبي الشهير (كل يعيش بعقله) أرتهن إلى أن واقع الأفكار لدى الناس مختلف باختلاف وعي كل فرد بما هو عليه من غير مطالبته بما لا يطيق من بحث وتمحيص.
ولأني أؤمن بأن الإيمان حالة خاصة، وبجوار هذا الإيمان التأكيد بأنه نتاج بحث عميق، يوصل المرء إلى إيمانه الخاص، أما قضية (إيمان العواجز) فهو مطلب لمن لا يقوى على البحث، وكان هذا ملائماً لزمنية ذلك القول، ولو كان عمر بن الخطاب يعيش بيننا لما قال جملته تلك، بل ستجده ناصحاً لكل إنسان بأن يجدّ في البحث عما يعتريه من شك، وإن كان في حقيقة سيرة عمر بن الخطاب أنه كان باحثاً عن الحق، والباحث تجده في حالة تنقلات إيمانية وفقاً للمكابدة البحثية الدائمة التي يعيش بها.
تابع قناة عكاظ على الواتساب
Private faith comes from constant inquiry. I reached my delayed convictions after a long time of reading, researching, and comparing what cultural or religious issues troubled my soul at different ages, with the certainty that every day I gain new knowledge, I will be in a state of changing understanding.
I learned early on that the humanities are subject to rejection or persuasion, and regardless of the different orientations of the humanities, you can adhere to the convictions you have reached. With numerous readings, I fortified myself with a foundation of doubt, this driving force that keeps you in a constant state of research and inquiry. I no longer adhere to any knowledge unless I resort to reading the idea and its opposite, and I extract for myself a personal conviction that I may cling to for a while. If new knowledge emerges that contradicts what my soul has settled upon, I quickly pursue (dialectics) in searching for what contradicts the newly introduced idea. The idea of (dialectics) is not merely the condition of the philosopher Hegel, but rather what leads me to a conviction that allows me to achieve psychological stability, even if only for a brief period. If I experience a shaking certainty about the delayed idea, I have no objection to starting the search anew.
If we include the concept of conviction as a special state, we can also place the concept of faith as a special state. Therefore, it is not the right of any person to create a state of disturbance in the convictions of others.
Here arises the question (not obligatory but for clarification): What is the point of writing, or raising awareness, or refuting ideas, or the message that the intellectual must uphold, generalize, or disseminate?
I previously mentioned that this thought occurred to me while watching a religious program by a young man who reiterated what had been refuted from hadiths or some aspects of the life of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). While watching the program, I remembered that I had become addicted to calling for the purification of the prophetic biography and some hadiths that had settled in minds - with all their flaws - stipulating that this purification should be through an Islamic religious institution that includes most scholars of the Islamic world, in order to cleanse the written heritage from the impurities that have attached to it until it reached us as an absolute truth.
With the young man's missteps in his talk, relying on weak hadiths or hadiths that offend the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), or fabricated biographies, I insisted - between myself and my thoughts - to write an article (or several articles) whose essence is that we regurgitate religious culture without scrutiny or reading the books that address the hadiths, the biography, and the historical events that some of which have had their credibility undermined, and to be skeptical of some, or at least to stand on the hadiths (of definitive or speculative indication). The young man's knowledge is sufficient for him to distance himself from what could establish matters devoid of truth; that knowledge distances him from what can be considered speculative or a flawed hadith or part of a biography entangled with lies... so that this generation does not regurgitate what we have regurgitated over many years until we reached a conviction about what has been weakened or considered among the fundamentally flawed hadiths, even though they are spoken by many people.
When I recall the famous popular saying (everyone lives by their mind), I am inclined to believe that the reality of ideas among people differs according to each individual's awareness of their own state without demanding from them what they cannot bear in terms of research and scrutiny.
Since I believe that faith is a special state, and alongside this faith is the affirmation that it is the result of deep inquiry, leading a person to their private faith, the issue of (faith of the incapable) is a demand for those who cannot engage in research. This was suitable for the time of that saying, and if Umar ibn al-Khattab were living among us, he would not have said that phrase; rather, you would find him advising every person to strive in searching for what troubles them with doubt. In reality, Umar ibn al-Khattab was a seeker of truth, and a seeker is found in a state of faith transitions according to the constant research struggles they live through.
I learned early on that the humanities are subject to rejection or persuasion, and regardless of the different orientations of the humanities, you can adhere to the convictions you have reached. With numerous readings, I fortified myself with a foundation of doubt, this driving force that keeps you in a constant state of research and inquiry. I no longer adhere to any knowledge unless I resort to reading the idea and its opposite, and I extract for myself a personal conviction that I may cling to for a while. If new knowledge emerges that contradicts what my soul has settled upon, I quickly pursue (dialectics) in searching for what contradicts the newly introduced idea. The idea of (dialectics) is not merely the condition of the philosopher Hegel, but rather what leads me to a conviction that allows me to achieve psychological stability, even if only for a brief period. If I experience a shaking certainty about the delayed idea, I have no objection to starting the search anew.
If we include the concept of conviction as a special state, we can also place the concept of faith as a special state. Therefore, it is not the right of any person to create a state of disturbance in the convictions of others.
Here arises the question (not obligatory but for clarification): What is the point of writing, or raising awareness, or refuting ideas, or the message that the intellectual must uphold, generalize, or disseminate?
I previously mentioned that this thought occurred to me while watching a religious program by a young man who reiterated what had been refuted from hadiths or some aspects of the life of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). While watching the program, I remembered that I had become addicted to calling for the purification of the prophetic biography and some hadiths that had settled in minds - with all their flaws - stipulating that this purification should be through an Islamic religious institution that includes most scholars of the Islamic world, in order to cleanse the written heritage from the impurities that have attached to it until it reached us as an absolute truth.
With the young man's missteps in his talk, relying on weak hadiths or hadiths that offend the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), or fabricated biographies, I insisted - between myself and my thoughts - to write an article (or several articles) whose essence is that we regurgitate religious culture without scrutiny or reading the books that address the hadiths, the biography, and the historical events that some of which have had their credibility undermined, and to be skeptical of some, or at least to stand on the hadiths (of definitive or speculative indication). The young man's knowledge is sufficient for him to distance himself from what could establish matters devoid of truth; that knowledge distances him from what can be considered speculative or a flawed hadith or part of a biography entangled with lies... so that this generation does not regurgitate what we have regurgitated over many years until we reached a conviction about what has been weakened or considered among the fundamentally flawed hadiths, even though they are spoken by many people.
When I recall the famous popular saying (everyone lives by their mind), I am inclined to believe that the reality of ideas among people differs according to each individual's awareness of their own state without demanding from them what they cannot bear in terms of research and scrutiny.
Since I believe that faith is a special state, and alongside this faith is the affirmation that it is the result of deep inquiry, leading a person to their private faith, the issue of (faith of the incapable) is a demand for those who cannot engage in research. This was suitable for the time of that saying, and if Umar ibn al-Khattab were living among us, he would not have said that phrase; rather, you would find him advising every person to strive in searching for what troubles them with doubt. In reality, Umar ibn al-Khattab was a seeker of truth, and a seeker is found in a state of faith transitions according to the constant research struggles they live through.


