Misguiding Excerpts from the Writings of Dr. Fazlur Rahman of Pakistan

Question

A certain person uses sentences of this kind in his writings: (1) The event of the Mi‘raj is a fable, fabricated in rivalry with the raising of Hazrat ‘Isa ﵇ to heaven. (“Islam”, p. 14, by Dr. Fazlur Rahman, Director of the Islamic Research Institute (Idara Tahqiqat-i Islamiyya), Islamabad, Pakistan.) (2) All the stories that Allah the Exalted has related in the Holy Qur’an concerning the past events of the earlier prophets ﵈ are baseless events, fabricated in rivalry with the Jews and the Christians. (Ibid., p.

Answer

We do not have the said book of Dr. Fazlur Rahman, nor the “Nawa-i-Waqt”, and no opportunity arose to obtain them from anywhere and study them. If the excerpts you have quoted indeed carry this meaning, if no other meaning results from the context, and if the author’s intent too is exactly what is apparent from the words, then these are extremely misleading statements: they…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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