خلاصه ماشینی:
The sense in which the term "tradition" is being used here does not signify the handing down only of the Hadith and Sunnah as it is generally understood in Islamic literature, but suggests instead everything that comes down to us from the past.
3 Instead of using tradition in a nonnative sense, the anti-Enlightenment mode of thought or discourse understands it to mean a historical continuum of past flowing into the present and present making the future possible.
According to this view, tradition is the collective historical experience that includes everything frorn knowledge formations to cultural products which people collectively create over time.
To understand tradition as an ongoing conversation is to think of the past not as a record of events over and done with or a story which has come to an end but rather as events that address each new generation a little differently.
In other words, tradition is not a concatenation of disparate events strung up across time, but rather it is the temporal stretch within which events unfold, constituting each present by borrowing from the past and anticipating the future.
Now it should be clear that in claiming tradition as the necessary condition for the possibility of know ledge, I was pointing to the embeddedness and the situatedness of knowledge in social prac- - - - -fices~ -Hence, the need for Islamic 'knowledge arid- the rejection -or - - Western secular knowledge.
The Qur'anic phenomenon also serves as the point of reference for the Islamic tradition.