The Thinking Muslim

The Scholars who Failed Gaza with Dr Farah El-Sharif

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Aug 1, 2025
Dr. Farah El-Sharif, a scholar of Islamic intellectual history, discusses the alarming state of Gaza and the role of Muslim scholars and leaders in responding to humanitarian crises. She critiques contemporary scholarship for its ethical detachment, urging a return to genuine Islamic values that promote social justice. El-Sharif emphasizes the moral obligation of the Muslim community to confront injustice and challenges the complacency that permeates modern interpretations of Islam. The conversation calls for a revival of active engagement with core Islamic ideals in the face of adversity.
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Scholars Sedate Ummah Amid Crisis

  • Many Muslim scholars today sedate the Ummah with a detached Islam that ignores massive suffering like in Gaza.
  • This silence gives tyrants theological cover and betrays Islam's ethical essence.
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Islam Stripped of Ethics Is Betrayal

  • Modern Islamic scholarship often reduces faith to performative rituals stripped of ethics.
  • True Islam is revolutionary, unsettling tyrants by demanding justice and rejecting power complicity.
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Quran Rebukes Muslim Apathy

  • The Quran calls out Muslims repeatedly for apathy and failure to aid each other.
  • This reprimand is deeply relevant to our current failure to unite against injustice.
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