A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah. Modernism. Its root is derived from the concept of "newness" (tahdith). That is, renewal and development. In its outward appearance, it is the departure of literary texts, whether poetry or prose, from the rational to the irrational. In its true essence, it is the removal of every text— including the Book and the Sunnah— from the realm of the rational and the boundaries of the conventional, or from logic and rational analogy, into the realm of the irrational. A summary of the concepts held by the Ahl al-Sunnah.