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You're a younger man so I understand why you may not be familiar with logical constructs of debate and it's more based on passion than reason. So much of what I'm writing might go over your head so when I critique Taliban's edicts , you incorrectly perceive it as disparaging beards, or when I speak about Taliban's mushrab of Hanafiyah , you think I'm disregarding the Hanafi Mathhab. Perhaps you do understand and are making a straw man response. However, I'd like to believe you're merely doing so out of misunderstanding the content in my writing, and not intentional misrepresentation.
To address your statements, can you find anything in my post which demonstrates a problem with Hanafiyah? Not at all.
I specifically mentioned their "mushrab" of hanafiyah, the Deobandi approach; and yes they do in fact have the Deobandi approach, their edicts are wholly connected to the Deoband Fatawah. They picked the most extreme forms of Hanafiyah, things which more balanced mushurub (drinking streams literally, contextually referring to approaches) understood much differently. For example , pictures of moving objects are not banned in Hanafiyah, most Hanafi jurists understand that the Prophetic (saw) warnings were in context to pictures of objects which were used for worship by the Mushrikun, and they know it was dealing with that because after the idols were destroyed, Nabi(saw) allows 'Aisha (ra) to put pictures/paintings back up. However, the dictum of the Deobandi Mushrab of Hanafiyah, takes an approach more akin to Hanbalis who stress that even though this event happened, they want to avoid the potential of any regression to idol worship. Deoband Thinkers are the only Mushurub that emphasize such edicts.
Similarly, I was not making any negation of beards, but in Islam the level of emphasis on something of that level was not as high as the Taliban made it, Nabi(saw) advised males to wear beards to distinguish themselves from the Behavior of the local mushrikun, majousiyeen and yahoudiyeen in his area; but it was not the most stressed or emphasized aspect of being Muslim. Many Muslim men did not have beards, Nabi (saw) never went around ridiculing them, in fact he only mentioned the beard thing once or twice at most.
My point was to only use that as an EXAMPLE, of how The Taliban under clear Deobandi Influence, took lower priority aspects of Islaam and made them so stressed upon it caused great deal of interferrence with normal life. And that their focus are upon these aspects. The Taliban never had a policy on how to redevelop grain/food resources, how to regain important community services like midwives so women wouldn't die in childbirth or the children. Most of what they were doing was simply impractical.
To address your statements, can you find anything in my post which demonstrates a problem with Hanafiyah? Not at all.
I specifically mentioned their "mushrab" of hanafiyah, the Deobandi approach; and yes they do in fact have the Deobandi approach, their edicts are wholly connected to the Deoband Fatawah. They picked the most extreme forms of Hanafiyah, things which more balanced mushurub (drinking streams literally, contextually referring to approaches) understood much differently. For example , pictures of moving objects are not banned in Hanafiyah, most Hanafi jurists understand that the Prophetic (saw) warnings were in context to pictures of objects which were used for worship by the Mushrikun, and they know it was dealing with that because after the idols were destroyed, Nabi(saw) allows 'Aisha (ra) to put pictures/paintings back up. However, the dictum of the Deobandi Mushrab of Hanafiyah, takes an approach more akin to Hanbalis who stress that even though this event happened, they want to avoid the potential of any regression to idol worship. Deoband Thinkers are the only Mushurub that emphasize such edicts.
Similarly, I was not making any negation of beards, but in Islam the level of emphasis on something of that level was not as high as the Taliban made it, Nabi(saw) advised males to wear beards to distinguish themselves from the Behavior of the local mushrikun, majousiyeen and yahoudiyeen in his area; but it was not the most stressed or emphasized aspect of being Muslim. Many Muslim men did not have beards, Nabi (saw) never went around ridiculing them, in fact he only mentioned the beard thing once or twice at most.
My point was to only use that as an EXAMPLE, of how The Taliban under clear Deobandi Influence, took lower priority aspects of Islaam and made them so stressed upon it caused great deal of interferrence with normal life. And that their focus are upon these aspects. The Taliban never had a policy on how to redevelop grain/food resources, how to regain important community services like midwives so women wouldn't die in childbirth or the children. Most of what they were doing was simply impractical.
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