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From: "Mohammad Shafi Aga" <mdshafiaga@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 18:40:35 +0530
In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
Pasted below is an extract from the as-yet unpublished Volume VII of Qur'aanic Studies:
132. WaateeAAoo Allaha waalrrasoola laAAallakum turhamoona
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132. And obey Allah and the Messenger so that Mercy is bestowed upon you.144,145
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144. This Qur'aanic directive to obey the Messenger is grossly misunderstood. The Messenger is no longer living in this world, and there is no
question of his issuing any directives now in person, which could be obeyed. The directives he had issued, while he was living, under Allah's
guidance are most authentically incorporated in the Qur'aan. So when the believers obey the directives in the Qur'aan, they in effect obey both
Allah and His Messenger. But a majority of the Muslims now say that obeying the Qur'aanic directives alone wouldn't be akin to obeying the
Messenger. He (the Messenger), they insist, had issued some detailed instructions for practical implementation of the divine directives in the
Qur'aan. These practical instructions, they say, are contained in the ahaadeeth. According to these Muslims, then, the divinely approved Religion
of Islam is not complete and perfect without the ahaadeeth!
145. The majority contention of the present-day Muslims as above, clearly contradicts many Qur'aanic statements like those quoted below:
"...We have missed nothing in the Book..." [Verse 6.38]
"...It is not a concocted hadeeth but a confirmation of what preceded it and a detailed explanation of everything and a guide and a mercy for the
people who believe." [Verse 12.111]
The Muslim contention in fact betrays their lack of belief in the Qur'aan.
146. It is an accepted fact that the ahaadeeth contain many contradictions. And in the light of the divine criterion laid down in Verse 4.82, such
writings cannot be from Allah. So by treating these non-divine writings at par with the divine Verses of the Qur'aan, the Muslims are committing
the unpardonable sin of shirk. Nay, they are committing a sin worse than shirk. They are rejecting the divine Verses which say that everything is
explained in the Qur'aan, and they seek the explanation instead in the error-prone, man-influenced ahaadeeth. They, in effect, believe in men
narrating the ahaadeeth to the recorders, hundreds of years after the death of the Prophet. But they do not believe in Allah!! May the
GhafoorurRaheem make them realise, before it becomes too late, that they are, by doing so, inexorably hurtling themselves into a painful doom.
Mohammad Shafi
islam-n-interest. com
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 18:40:35 +0530
In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
Pasted below is an extract from the as-yet unpublished Volume VII of Qur'aanic Studies:
132. WaateeAAoo Allaha waalrrasoola laAAallakum turhamoona
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
132. And obey Allah and the Messenger so that Mercy is bestowed upon you.144,145
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
144. This Qur'aanic directive to obey the Messenger is grossly misunderstood. The Messenger is no longer living in this world, and there is no
question of his issuing any directives now in person, which could be obeyed. The directives he had issued, while he was living, under Allah's
guidance are most authentically incorporated in the Qur'aan. So when the believers obey the directives in the Qur'aan, they in effect obey both
Allah and His Messenger. But a majority of the Muslims now say that obeying the Qur'aanic directives alone wouldn't be akin to obeying the
Messenger. He (the Messenger), they insist, had issued some detailed instructions for practical implementation of the divine directives in the
Qur'aan. These practical instructions, they say, are contained in the ahaadeeth. According to these Muslims, then, the divinely approved Religion
of Islam is not complete and perfect without the ahaadeeth!
145. The majority contention of the present-day Muslims as above, clearly contradicts many Qur'aanic statements like those quoted below:
"...We have missed nothing in the Book..." [Verse 6.38]
"...It is not a concocted hadeeth but a confirmation of what preceded it and a detailed explanation of everything and a guide and a mercy for the
people who believe." [Verse 12.111]
The Muslim contention in fact betrays their lack of belief in the Qur'aan.
146. It is an accepted fact that the ahaadeeth contain many contradictions. And in the light of the divine criterion laid down in Verse 4.82, such
writings cannot be from Allah. So by treating these non-divine writings at par with the divine Verses of the Qur'aan, the Muslims are committing
the unpardonable sin of shirk. Nay, they are committing a sin worse than shirk. They are rejecting the divine Verses which say that everything is
explained in the Qur'aan, and they seek the explanation instead in the error-prone, man-influenced ahaadeeth. They, in effect, believe in men
narrating the ahaadeeth to the recorders, hundreds of years after the death of the Prophet. But they do not believe in Allah!! May the
GhafoorurRaheem make them realise, before it becomes too late, that they are, by doing so, inexorably hurtling themselves into a painful doom.
Mohammad Shafi
islam-n-interest. com