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Murder in the Name of Allah writing, to make it law, hath the power also to approve or disapprove the interpretation of the same. "10. Heresy, in Hobbes's view, was private judgement and action contrary to popular belief as laid down by the sovereign:. It is not the intrinsic error of the judgment that makes the heresy punishable, but the private rebellion against authority. To make loyalty to the commands of conscience the ruling principle would sanction all private men to disobey their princes in maintenance of their religion, true or false. 11. According to Hobbes, this is subversion. . There is no apostasy without heresy and no heresy without dogma. . The Christian dogma was carefully spelled out in the Athanasian. Creed, which says: 'That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; Neither confounding the Persons: nor dividing the Substance. ". It is in this tradition of medieval Christianity, and not of Islam, that. Maulana Maududi developed the original ideals of Maulana Abul Kalam. Azad and the Khairi brothers' Hukumat-i-Ilahiyya (Kingdom of God). 12. St Augustine, Martin Luther, John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes provided him with the non-Islamic concepts of orthodoxy, dogma and heresy - and also with the rhetoric of intolerance. . Even the orientalists, who never miss an opportunity of criticising. Islam, agree there is no dogma and heresy in Islam. Goldziher says:. The role of dogma in Islam cannot be compared to that which it plays in religious life of any of the Christian Churches. There are no Councils and. Synods which, after lively controversy, lay down the formulae, which henceforth shall be deemed to embrace the whole of the true faith. There is no ecclesiastical institution, which serves as the measure of orthodoxy, no single authorised interpretation of the holy scriptures, on which the doctrine and exegesis of the church might be built. The Consensus, the supreme authority in all questions of religious practice, exercises an elastic, in a certain sense barely definable jurisdiction, the very conception of which is moreover variously explained. Particularly in unanimity what shall have effect as undisputed Consensus. What is accepted as. Consensus by one party, is far from being accepted as such by another. ¹³. The contemporary Jewish orientalist, Bernard Lewis, who would never be accused of being pro-Muslim, observes:. What matters was what people did - orthopraxy, rather than orthodoxy and Muslims were allowed on the whole to believe as they chose to do, so long as they accepted the basic minimum, the Unity of God and the apostolate of Muhammad, and conformed to the social norms. 14 52