shagi said:
Tabrez said:
Mr. Hamid says that he doesn't say things that are against the Qur'an. According to the Qur'an.................................................................................
We should be aware of such people and always use the Quran the Furqan to distinguish what is right from what is wrong.
I respect you point of view and vast research of quran. I know from where you are comming from, but I want to ask you one question, do you know who told us this is quran. He is Mohammad (SAW). He said this is 'word' of quran, we believed it. When he say something else how we will not believe him. It is ironic that in the history of islam there always remained a group or sect of muslims who always tried to get meaning directly from quran denying the life of prophet and his sayings. His life and sayings are a practical manifestation of quran. Quran does tell us ''say prayer'' but it does not tell us how to say prayer and how to bend in front of Allah. It all was told to us by prophet. Similarly there are many things in quran which were explained by prophet in his 'Ahadeths'. I agree that some ahadeths may be weak and some strong and quran would be ultimate testimony for it. But we cannot deny life of prophet and his sayings. Some sects of muslims are trying to derive islam directly from quran leaving ''Sunnah and Hadeth' which is a big mistake.
Salam Alaikum,
I think you did not read my message carefully. I never denied the Prophet or his Sunnah. In fact, I stated very clearly that things like salaat come to us from his sunnah. I learned salaat from my parents, who learned it from their parents, who, in turn learned it from their parents.... and so on. Salat comes to us from sunnah, not ahadeeth. Can you honestly say that you learned salaat from reading abook of ahadeeth or did your parents teach it.
There is a difference between sunnah and ahadeeth. The Prophet did NOT leave ANY part of his mission incomplete. As far as the deen is concerned, he made sure that ALL (and not just one or two) of his companions were clearly told and shown. This is Sunnah - matters about Deen that the Prophet showed his companions. The collection of ahadeeth, on the other hand, are statements or actions that were NOT necessarily heard or seen by the majority of his companions. These were statements or actions that one or two of his companions ALLEGEDLY heard or saw. I say "allegedly" because these were statements that were recorded by someone like Bukhari some 200 years after the death of the Prophet. According to Bukhari, he searched through some 600,000 statements that were in circulations around his time - and all these statements were alleged to be from the Prophet. Bukhari, like a good historian, devised a methodology to extract what HIS criterion revealed to him to be historically sound. But this was his criterion - not a revelation from God. After the study, he considered about 4000 (excluding the repetitions) to be historically sound - i.e., that they could have come from the Prophet. He rejected 99.5% of the alleged ahadeeth in circulation in his time as historically unverifiable or unsound. Work continued to be done on these historical document even after Bukhari. His own student Dar al Qutni, later conducted a study and declared about 200 of the ahadith in Bukhari's "sound" collection to be of historically doubtful authenticity.
I do not say that we need to "leave" hadeeth. All I am saying is that we should treat it as a good HISTORICAL document, which should be interpreted in the light of Al-Furqan - The Criterion - the Book of God.
Regarding explanations of the Prophet, it should be very clear that the best tafsir of the Qur'an is the Qur'an itself as stated by the Qur'an, or do you dispute this claim of the Qur'an?
Of course, the Prophet, as Allah's appointed Messenger was teaching the Qur'an, but his teachings and explanations primarily came from the Qur'an itself. We are given evidence of this in the Qur'an. Please read some of the verses from the Book to this effect. These verses not only show that his teachings were coming from the Qur'an but also that it was his SUNNAH to follow ONLY the Book of God, to teach ONLY from the Book of God, and to judge ONLY from the Book of God. If you want to follow his sunnah, there is one foolproof way to do that. Do as he did - make the Book of God the center of all teachings, obedience and judgments. You will be following the Prophet's sunnah 100%:
He does not follow any thing or any book besides the Book of Allah:
But when Our Clear ayaat are recited to them, those who rest not their hopes in meeting with Us, say Bring us a Quran other than this, or change this. Say: It is not for me, of my own accord, to change it. I follow naught but what is revealed to me; surely I fear, if I disobey my Sustainer, the punishment of a mighty day. (10:15)
He performs his duty with sincerity as Allah Commands him. His duty is to warn people, and he is warning people with the Book that Allah has given him. Here is the commandment of Allah:
And thus have We revealed to you an Arabic Quran, <auhaina_ ilaika qur a_nan arabiy yan> that you may warn the mother city and those around it, and that you may give warning of the day of gathering together wherein is no doubt; a party shall be in the garden and (another) party in the burning fire. (42:7)
And here is the answer of the obedient Messenger:
Allah is witness between you and me; and this Quran has been revealed to me that with it I may warn you and whomsoever it reaches. (6:19)
He is teaching people with what Allah has revealed to him. People mock and abuse him, but he is sincere to his Lord and does NOT react or compel anyone to believe he teaches what Allah has told him to teach from:
We know best what they say, and you are not one to compel them; therefore remind him by means of the Quran who fears My Promise. (50:45)
And he obeys this command, and says:
I am commanded only that I should serve the Sustainer of this city, Who has made it sacred, and His are all things; and I am commanded that I should be of those who submit; And that I should recite the Quran. Therefore whoever goes aright, he goes aright for his own soul, and whoever goes ' astray, then say: I am only one of the warners. (27:91-22)
The Prophet Muhammad judges among people, but he does NOT judge from laws OUTSIDE of Allahs Book, as Allah commands him:
Surely We have revealed the Book to you with the truth that you may judge between people by means of that which Allah has shown you; and be not an advocate on behalf of the treacherous. (4:105)
And We have revealed to you the Book with the truth, verifying what is before it of the Book and a guardian over it, therefore judge between them by what Allah has revealed, and do not follow their low desires (to turn away) from the truth that has come to you; (5:48)
Being a servant of Allah, he obeys this command and does NOT judge by anything OUTSIDE of the laws of Allah as given to him through the Book of Allah. He attests to this fact and is made to say:
Shall I then seek a Ruler other than Allah? When He it is Who has revealed to you the Book (which is) distinctly elucidated; (6:114)
His Tafsir and teachings ALL came from the Qur'an:
The rejecters say: Why is not the Quran revealed to him all at once? Thus (it is revealed gradually) that We may strengthen your heart thereby and We have rehearsed it to you in slow well-arranged stages gradually. And no example do they bring to you but We bring to you the truth and the best explanation (ahsan al Tafsir)(25:32-33)
A Book revealed to you-- so let there be no stress in your breast on account of it-- that you may warn thereby, and a reminder close to the believers. <dhikra_ lil mu'minin> (7:2)
For Allah has indeed sent down to you reminder <dhikr> A Messenger reciting the ayaat of Allah which contain clarity <Mubayyinaatin> that he may lead forth those who believe and do righteous deeds from the depths of darkness into Light. (65:10-11)
One Day We shall raise from all peoples a witness against them, from amongst themselves: and We shall bring you as a witness against these (your people); and We have sent down to you the Book CLARIFYING ALL things <tabayyina likulli shai>, a Guide, a Mercy, and glad tidings to Muslims (16:89)
Ramadan is the Month in which was sent down the Quran, as a Guide <Huda> to humankind and as a Clarity <Bayyinatin> for The Guidance <al-Huda> and The Criterion <al-Furqaan>. (2:185)
"And thus do We repeat the verses and that they may say: You have given the Daras(lecture); and that We may make it clear to a people who know." (6:108)
Mr. Zaid Hamid is promoting war based on some "predictions" contained in a book of ahadeeth. There is absolutely NO support for this "prediction" from Al-Furqan - The Qur'an. Instead, the Book clearly states that the Prophet DOES NOT know the ghaib (which, by definition includes the future).
wasalam,
Tabrez