Essential Writings Ismail Al Faruqi by Imtiyaz Yusuf

Author:Imtiyaz Yusuf [Yusuf, Imtiyaz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Islamic Book Trust
Published: 2021-10-26T18:30:00+00:00

“Two Case Studies: Indonesia And Tanzania” International Review of Mission 65, no. 260 (October 1976).

3. Al Faruqi’s view on Religio Naturalis, Din Al-Fitr and Unity of Prophethood—An Interaction with Kenneth Cragg, Michael Fitzgerald and Khurshid Ahmad.

Cragg: What you are saying, then, is that God has sent prophets everywhere, but ex hypothesis these prophets must be consistent with Islam.

Al-Faruqi: Yes, Islam as religio naturalis, din al-fitrah.

Cragg: But that which in Buddhism is antithetical to Islam and to rationalism is not simply chaff mixed with wheat, if I may put it that way; it is the very wheat of Buddhism. By your analysis here it must then have been a false prophecy which brought the Buddhist to that belief.

Al-Faruqi: I won’t say a false prophecy. I would say that a true revelation through an authentic prophet has been thoroughly falsified.

Fitzgerald: But by what historical criteria is the “true” prophet to be identified? And where is the “true” prophecy of which you speak within Buddhism?

Al-Faruqi: I don’t know, but it can be researched; the fact that I assume it to be there at the origin is at least a good step in the direction of ecumenical tolerance.

Ahmad: It is very possible that rudiments of the true prophecy are to be found even in some pagan religions.

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