Yeni Sünnet Tanımları Bağlamında Sünnet-Dindarlık İlişkisi Üzerine Bazı Mülâhazalar

Abstract

The fact that modernization threatened applicability and sustainability of Islamic

piety made it necessary to rethink Sunnah. And the necessity of rethinking Sunnah also gave

rise to new definitions of Sunnah. And trying to answer the question of why it is necessary

to rethink Sunnah led us to reconsider piety because the relationship between Sunnah and

piety is a normal and structural relationship. The nature of piety and the nature of Sunnah

overlap. This is why it would not be wrong to see the call for the ‘revival of Sunnah’ in the

last century among Muslims as a manifestation of the search for piety. Also, assessing Sunnah

in this context to redefine it will end the confusion about this matter. Furthermore, the clarification

of the concepts will also help to put piety into practice in the modern era because

conceptual confusions leads to inconsistencies in one’s behaviors. This article tackles modern

definitions of Sunnah and piety and also it assesses the related concepts of Kitab, Sunnah

and Hikmah. As a result, the article argues that there is not an obstacle to understanding and

defining Sunnah as a form of piety.

Keywords

• Dindarlık,Sekülerlik,Kitâbullâh,Hikmet,Sünnet

References

1. Selahattin Polat, “Sünnetin Hayata İntikalindeki Gerilim Noktaları, Açmazlar ve Problemler”, Sünnetin Bireysel ve Toplumsal Değişimdeki Rolü Sempozyumu, 2008, s. 189.