Brother what I perceive from your post is,
You know nothing about tablegee Jamat and all the things you mentioned are other way around.
They are emphasizing to follow the Hazrat Muhammad pbuh and you are stuck at today's leaders. Which one is better every one knows that.........
Dear Muslimpower, no one criticizes what people do good but everyone is entitled and should be critical of what someone does wrong.
The problem is that there is a third issue here and that is when some people get confused and take good as bad or bad as good or take something as islam when it in actual fact is not.
It is at this point claims and evidences become necessary but people need to develop their ability to be able to learn and judge properly.
The main thing to remember is objectivity, purpose or usefulness of things in various situations under various circumstances.
Islam is a divine order that tells human beings to be useful and productive people, it is not name of some useless make beliefs and useless rituals and time wasting.
Anything we do as individuals or as a society which causes loss to us personally or as a society is bad therefore we must not do it. Likewise whatever we do as individuals or as a society that does not benefit us personally or as a society is useless and a waste of time.
Whatever Allah and his messenger have told us is told in a particular frame or context or perspective ie everything has a proper order in sense of purpose, time, and place. It has a priority order for varying situations and varying circumstances to serve some set out purpose.
All these points need to be in our minds when we try to define term sunnah of the prophet.
For example, if we define sunnah as any word and deed of the prophet then there are words and deeds the prophet said ot did that none of us can follow. In fact if we did those things we will be called insane people. For example, the prophet used to say, inni rasoolallah= I am messenger of Allah. Now which muslims is going to call this sunnah and follow it? This tells us that term sunnah needs to be define properly before we start fighting over it.
In fact let me raise a question for all of us, please kindly define term sunnah according to your own understanding of the term? Any definition of term sunnah is bound to face limitations ie it has to include things as well as include things the prophet said or did. These inclusions and exclusion have to be based on the reason or purposes they serve or their usefulness, the facing situations and circumstances. One will see that if we defined sunnah this way then we face no problem whatsoever but if we define sunnah any other way then we end up with lots of things contradicting a lot of other things and we all get confused and end up fighting without trying to stand back and figure out things for ourselves as to where we may have gone wrong.
We always need to remember that the prophet is on a mission from God. He is ordered to do things for the purposes set out for him and his followers by Allah. So following the prophet has to be understood in this context. It is not good that we find out that prophet walked down a street and we start doing the same day and night thinking we are following his sunnah. He did that walking down the street for serving some purpose in a situation under a set of circumstance.
Again we can see from this that doing things aimlessly is not a sunnah because the prophet did not do anything for nothing. He was not a time waster a nonproductive human being.
From this it should not be difficult to see why so many people who claim to know islam actually do not know islam. They are just followes of anything and anyone thoughtlessly. They are making islam look silly by claiming what they are doing is islam. So the best thing we can do is understand islam properly and follow it thoughtfully. When we do that we will become walking examples or sign boards for islam and people seeing us by our deeds will not remain unimpressed. So long as we follow things blindly we will remain a laughing stock and useless for ourselves as well as for rest of mankind. Not only that our fighting with each other is unlikely to end.
post modified for further claity regards and all the best.
