In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful
Pasted below is an
extract from QUR’AANIC STUDIES – A Modern Tafsir:
132. WaateeAAoo Allaha waalrrasoola
laAAallakum turhamoona
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.
Guide us to the Right
Path, Allah!
Mohammad
Shafi
Friday, the 25th
November, 2016.
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