issuevoter wrote on Mar 21
st, 2019 at 12:02pm:
On the subject of your beliefs, oh pious one, which is the higher authority: the Koran or the Australian Constitution? I believe it is the Australian Constitution, and that makes me a blasphemer, as far as Islam is concerned, because the Koran is the Holy word of God and his prophet. Of course, you will not answer the question because it either compromises you with Islam or Australia.
And I believe in the Quran *AND* the Australian constitution. They are not mutually exclusive.
You insult both our intelligence by reducing this into such a simplistic and patently absurd either/or dichotomy. Did you ever stop and think what you even mean by "higher authority"? It is clearly a 'gotcha' exercise to bait me into saying I am not loyal to Australia because I am a filthy traitorous muslim. Yet, funnily enough, I can't imagine you asking a christian the same question in regards the bible with the same venom. Even though you must surely know that the situation of a christian in this regard is identical to the situation of a muslim.
Perhaps if I put it this way: the Quran fundamentally is a guide book for a journey - the journey of life. It guides us to stay on the "right" path. What is the right path? The path that brings us closer to God through worship. What does worship entail in practice? Inherent in all humans is a fundamental understanding of right from wrong, good vs evil. We all have an inherent understanding of what this, so it doesn't need to be spelled out: be peaceful not violent, respectful not offensive, patient not rash, understanding and empathetic. I like to frame it like this: everything we do in life is either sin or worship. Its not quite as simple as that, as there are some grey areas - but its a good starting principle. 'worship' is simply anything we do with righteous intentions - everything down to sleeping, eating and even breathing - sustains life, and therefore is an inherent good. The Quran is not so much a step by step practical guide on everything we need to do to stay on this righteous path, it is more a motivational roadmap, reminders of the state of mind we need to keep, the self control and patience. The key to the Quran is not the details, there are hardly any - they key is it motivates and inspires us to keep on the righteous path.
The details of life - the practical actions taken in a temporal world, as I keep telling people, is just background noise. As I said, the Quran is just to remind us of the right sort of underlying attitudes we need in order to live life. The details we work out for ourselves. The Australian Constitution, if you like, is one such 'detail'. And by that, I take that to mean Australian law in general (presumably stemming from the constitution). My assumption is that Australian law, in a free and open society as ours, is inherently good. I don't believe it can be said that obeying Australian law necessarily compels us to do evil. That doesn't make much sense to me. Therefore, obeying, adhering, 'recognising the authority' of the Australian Constitution, is essentially nothing other than obeying, adhering to the Quran itself - since it is an inherent good, and inherent goodness is commanded by the Quran.
I hope you see here that your proposition that its either the "authority" of the Quran or the authority of the AC, is nonsensical. It could even be said that both are one in the same. Similar to another answer I gave you when I said that Islam is already in Australia - which I know went down so well with you