{"id":49006,"date":"2021-10-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/news\/liberal-islam-extremist-islam-both-harmful-ayatollah-ramazani\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:53:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:23:25","slug":"liberal-islam-extremist-islam-both-harmful-ayatollah-ramazani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/news\/liberal-islam-extremist-islam-both-harmful-ayatollah-ramazani\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Islam, extremist Islam, both harmful: Ayatollah Ramazani"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to the AhlulBayt World Assembly News Portal: <\/strong>During his visit to Lebanon, Ayatollah Reza Ramazani, Secretary-General of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly, met with members of the Lebanese Muslim Ulama Association at the Association\u2019s headquarter in Beirut.<\/p>\n

After the speech of Sheikh Ghazi Honaynah, the head of the Lebanese Muslim Ulama Association, while appreciating the presence of the scholars of this community and welcoming the delegation of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly, Ayatollah Ramazani stated, \u201cThis true cohesion and unity is one of the tenets of belief, and it is not a temporary tactic to be limited. Therefore, all meetings, sessions and communications are from your heart\u2019s belief.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe condition for membership in the Muslim Ulama Association is to follow the Velayat, which is a rare case for me, and originates from the spirit of Resistance among the members of this Association. This condition can be a model for others to follow this alliance. This unity will give authority and strength of the Muslims to the Association. Wherever the government has been in contact with the Ulama, it has been successful, otherwise, it loses its legitimacy. There are two misconceptions about Islam that are promoted by some intellectuals, as well as by some extremists. One is secularism, and the trivialization of religion, and the other is extremism,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cSecularism seeks to introduce liberal Islam. As we know, Islam is based on the five principles of man\u2019s relationship with God, man\u2019s relationship with himself, man\u2019s relationship with man and man\u2019s relationship with the Velayat. Liberal Islam defines Islam only in terms of man\u2019s relationship with God, and man\u2019s relationship with himself. While it rejects man\u2019s relation to man, man\u2019s relation to other nations, and man\u2019s relation to the Velayat. In a hadith, Imam Baqer (a.s.) said, \u201cIslam is based on the five pillars of prayer, fasting, zakat, Hajj and Velayat\u201d. If we pay attention, prayer is man\u2019s relationship with God, fasting is man\u2019s relationship with himself, zakat is man\u2019s relationship with man, Hajj is man\u2019s relationship with the international community, and Velayat is man\u2019s relationship with Velayat,\u201d added the Secretary-General of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis type of Islam wants man to only fast and pray and compel him to be in a corner of solitude in society. Liberal Islam does not believe in issues such as zakat, Hajj, and Velayat, which compel man to participate in society. In fact, with the integration of Islam by liberalism, the West is trying to create a deviation in Islam. The \u201cIntegration\u201d is the integration of misconceptions in Islam,\u201d stated Ayatollah Ramazani, referring to the characteristics of liberal Islam.<\/p>\n

\u201cIntellectuals interpret secular and liberal Islam as a religion of mercy. While in the face of arrogance and oppression, the resistance is necessary. Another deviant version of Islam is extremist Islam, which promotes Islamophobia. Like two edges of a sword, liberal Islam and extremist Islam destroy the teachings and concepts of pure Muhammadan Islam. According to verses and hadiths, we conclude that Islam of mercy and Islam of resistance can be effective only together. Islam of mercy without resistance leads to liberal Islam, and the result of Islam of resistance without mercy is extremist Islam that leads to ISIL, al-Qaeda and other extremist groups,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere, I invite you, nobles and Ulama, to teach the Fiqh al-Moqavema (Jurisprudence of Resistance) to today\u2019s generations. Thanks to Imam Khomeini and his worthy student Imam Khamenei, the jurisprudence of the resistance has shown itself well in these four decades. In fact, Sayed Al-Moqavema implemented the jurisprudence of the resistance on the Resistance front and achieved important victories. I hope that in this golden opportunity available to the Ulama, we will be able to introduce the religion of Muhammadan Islam to the world. Martyr Motahari said, \u201cI saw Imam Khomeini in Neauphle-le-Ch\u00e2teau while he believed in his God, his purpose, his path, and his Ummah\u201d. In fact, his trust in God, his goal, his path, and his Ummah, led to the victory of the glorious Islamic Revolution,\u201d stated the Secretary-General of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly in the end, addressing the members of the Lebanese Muslim Ulema Association.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Secretary-General of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly said, \u201cLike the two edges of a sword, liberal Islam and extremist Islam, destroy the teachings and concepts of pure Muhammadan Islam.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":405792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,58],"tags":[197,192],"class_list":["post-49006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-secretary-general","tag-ayatollah-reza-ramazani","tag-lebanon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405795,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49006\/revisions\/405795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}