I'd urge all Muslims to cease using adjectives to describe what is, simply a Muslim. All Muslims follow something passed down from generation to generation, the Quran. Calling yourself a traditional Muslim, is like saying "wet liquid water". 1/
Likewise, don't call yourself an orthodox Muslim, because while orthodox comes from the greek word "correct, right belief", modern english considers it mean majority opinion, but being a Muslim is not dependent on agreeing with a majority of people 2/
These two adjectives are unwise because they implicitly recognise the possibility of being other "types" of Muslim. Conservative Muslims cannot be, because Islam often requires change and improvement towards goodness and removing corruption 3/
Conservatism also seeks to conserve cultures (based on stability has the highest value rather than religion) irrespective of whether or not it contradicts Islam. Conservatism is an ideological approach that came from Western "enlightenment" materialist philosophies 4/
As for Liberal, Reformist, Modernist, Feminist, Socialist or Marxist "Muslims", these are oxymoronic adjectives that are self-contradictory, as ridiculous as fascist or racist "Islam".Using these adjectives aim to normalise entry of kufr ideas into acceptable islamic discourse 5/
In more knowledgeable times, Muslims adopting such materialistic values would have outed as having left islam, however during this current time of jahiliyyah (ignorance), we out the ideas, but make excuses for their adherents until proof is established against them 6/
For all Muslims who desire Islam, but are ignorant of its fullness or confused by kufr ideas presented as "compatible" to Islam, we should use "jahil Muslim", an adjective indicating deficiency. 7/
When it comes to madhahib (schools of thought), while it has been accepted in Muskim history to classify Muslims with words such as shafii or hanafi etc,this should be limited only to fiqh discussions and not involved in political identity, as Muslims are one Ummah politically 8/
Apart from this all other adjectives used of humans can be used, not as types of Muslim, but as types of human e.g. age: adult, child, old, young, sex: male, female, ethnicity: e.g Arab, Turk, Persian etc
Final note, don't use the term "non-practising or practising" Muslim, a Muslim who merely recites the shahada is practising Islam. Rather, we say negligent Muslims for those who miss obligations. wrong-doers are for those doing haram actions the Quran/Sunnah attribute to such /10
Trasgressors are for those defined as such in Quran/Sunnah who transgress the rights Allah SWT has decreed for others. Wrong-doer & transgressors can also be applied to a non-Muslim if merited. Munafiq (Hypocrite) isn't an adjective for a Muslim, since nifaq denies belief. 11/
If we use adjectives correctly and with wisdom, we deny normalising kufr and haram actions, and advocate the unity of Muslims divided by labels, and reinforce the Islamic lens of how we see and are to judge the world.
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