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According to Hasan onat, restructruing in Islam will be possible by placing human and revalation at the centre, evaluating the issues of God, Qur’an, prophethood, afterlife and by making the reletionship between Islam and the Qur’an dynamic and alive, featuring the intellect.
According to Hasan Onat, no real method has been developed for creative under standing of the Qur’an. Hence, a return to the Qur’an should be at the center of the reconstruction.
For Onat, the understanding of the Qur’an is the determination of root values and moral principles in the creation of a new life of humanity, a new civilization for humanity. In fact, understanding of the Qur’an is not linguistic, theological, mystical, but existential, historical.
To Onat, another element of religious structuring is the prevalence of reasoning and science, scientific mentality, over religious thought. The revival of religious thought is to activate our creative abilities by believing in the power of science.
One of the main parameters of the reconstruction is that Islam has left the political issues to the humanity, that the Qur’an addresses the individual rather than communities or the government and that the Qur’an does not represent the features of a book of law or politics. In the sense of Onat, religion could not be wrapped up into an anti-democratic and anti-secular color. At this point, Onat proposes reforms to reconcile Islamic thought with the modern concept of human rights and the concept of democracy and secularism.