محتاج أن أعيد مقالاً كتبته هنا بعنوان (الإيمان الخاص يتأتى بالبحث الدائم)؛ بسبب جدال بيني وبين مجموعة جمعتنا جلسة حمي وطيسها.
وصلت إلى قناعتي المتأخرة بعد زمن طويل من القراءة، والبحث، والمقارنة حول ما كان يعترض نفسي من إشكالات ثقافية أو دينية، في مستويات سنية مختلفة، مع يقيني أنني في كل يوم أكتسب فيها معرفة جديدة سأكون في شأن معرفي متغيّر.
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 لقراءة الفكرة ونقيضها، واستل 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. فكرة (الديالكتيك) ليس بشرطية الفيلسوف هيغل، بل ما يوصلني إلى قناعة تمكنني من الاستقرار النفسي -حتى لو كانت لفترة وجيزة- وإن اعتراني الاهتزاز 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 اهتزاز قناعات الآخرين.
إذاً ما جدوى الكتابة، أو نشر الوعي، أو نقض الأفكار، أو الرسالة التي على المثقف النهوض بها، وتعميمها، أو إشاعتها؟
طرأ في بالي هذا الأمر، وأنا أشاهد برنامجاً دينياً لأحد الشباب يعيد ما تم نقضه من أحاديث أو بعض من سيرة الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم، ومع مشاهدتي البرنامج تذكرت أنني أدمنت المطالبة بتنقية السيرة النبوية وبعض الأحاديث التي رانت في العقول -على علاتها- مشترطاً أن تكون 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 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 ظنية 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.
وفي نهاية المقالة تذكرت المثل الشعبي الشهير (كل يعيش بعقله). ولأني أؤمن بأن الايمان حالة خاصة، وبجوار هذا الإيمان التأكيد بأنه نتاج بحث عميق، يوصل المرء إلى إيمانه الخاص، أما قضية (إيمان العواجز) هو 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 يجد في البحث عما يعترك 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
I need to revisit an article I wrote here titled (Personal Faith Comes from Constant Search); due to a heated debate between me and a group that gathered for a lively session.
I reached my delayed conviction after a long time of reading, researching, and comparing what cultural or religious issues were troubling me at different age levels, with the certainty that every day I gain new knowledge, I will be in a constantly changing cognitive state.
I learned early on that the humanities are subject to rejection or persuasion, and no matter how diverse the humanities are, 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 searching and inquiry. I no longer rely on the data of any knowledge unless I resort to reading both the idea and its opposite, and I would extract for myself a personal conviction that I might adhere 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 necessarily that 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. And if I experience a shake-up with the late idea, I have no objection to starting the search anew.
If we consider the concept of conviction as a special case, we can also place the concept of faith as a special case. Therefore, it is not the right of any person to seek to shake the convictions of others.
So what is the purpose of writing, or raising awareness, or refuting ideas, or the message that the intellectual must uphold, generalize, or disseminate?
This thought occurred to me while watching a religious program by a young man who reiterates what has 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 have settled in minds—despite their flaws—conditioned that this purification 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—that I write an article whose essence is that we regurgitate religious culture without scrutiny or reading the books that address the hadiths, biography, and historical events, some of which have lost credibility, and some of which we should at least be skeptical about, or at least stand on the hadiths (of definitive or speculative indication). The young man's knowledge is sufficient for him to avoid affirming matters devoid of truth; his knowledge distances him from what can be considered speculative or a distorted hadith or part of a biography that has been tainted by lies... so that this generation does not regurgitate what we have been regurgitating over many years.
At the end of the article, I recalled the famous popular saying (Everyone lives by their own mind). And because I believe that faith is a special case, alongside this faith is the affirmation that it is the product of deep research, leading a person to their personal faith. As for the issue of (faith of the incapable), it is a demand for those who cannot search, and this was appropriate for the temporality of that saying. If Umar ibn al-Khattab were living among us, he would not have said that phrase; rather, you would find him advising everyone to seek out what wrestles with their doubts. In truth, Umar ibn al-Khattab was a seeker of truth, and a seeker is found in a state of faith transitions according to the ongoing research struggles they live through.
I reached my delayed conviction after a long time of reading, researching, and comparing what cultural or religious issues were troubling me at different age levels, with the certainty that every day I gain new knowledge, I will be in a constantly changing cognitive state.
I learned early on that the humanities are subject to rejection or persuasion, and no matter how diverse the humanities are, 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 searching and inquiry. I no longer rely on the data of any knowledge unless I resort to reading both the idea and its opposite, and I would extract for myself a personal conviction that I might adhere 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 necessarily that 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. And if I experience a shake-up with the late idea, I have no objection to starting the search anew.
If we consider the concept of conviction as a special case, we can also place the concept of faith as a special case. Therefore, it is not the right of any person to seek to shake the convictions of others.
So what is the purpose of writing, or raising awareness, or refuting ideas, or the message that the intellectual must uphold, generalize, or disseminate?
This thought occurred to me while watching a religious program by a young man who reiterates what has 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 have settled in minds—despite their flaws—conditioned that this purification 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—that I write an article whose essence is that we regurgitate religious culture without scrutiny or reading the books that address the hadiths, biography, and historical events, some of which have lost credibility, and some of which we should at least be skeptical about, or at least stand on the hadiths (of definitive or speculative indication). The young man's knowledge is sufficient for him to avoid affirming matters devoid of truth; his knowledge distances him from what can be considered speculative or a distorted hadith or part of a biography that has been tainted by lies... so that this generation does not regurgitate what we have been regurgitating over many years.
At the end of the article, I recalled the famous popular saying (Everyone lives by their own mind). And because I believe that faith is a special case, alongside this faith is the affirmation that it is the product of deep research, leading a person to their personal faith. As for the issue of (faith of the incapable), it is a demand for those who cannot search, and this was appropriate for the temporality of that saying. If Umar ibn al-Khattab were living among us, he would not have said that phrase; rather, you would find him advising everyone to seek out what wrestles with their doubts. In truth, Umar ibn al-Khattab was a seeker of truth, and a seeker is found in a state of faith transitions according to the ongoing research struggles they live through.


