Message #12270

[Heba E. Husseyn]

Dear sister Muslima .... may Allah bless you for your intelligent insight.  Everything you said is very correct.   Yes .. many teachings of our imams and ulemas clearly go against the Noble Quran, and the true and real Islam comes only from the Quran alone.  

You are right about idolizing the imams.  It's taught to us from childhood that our imams can never be wrong.  I would say, it surely goes against the Quran because Allah forbids us from blind following of anything.  The Noble Quran mentions in almost every Surah the huge importance of thinking and reflecting upon the truth.  Therefore whenever someone says something (imam or whoever), we must first analyze their ideology and accept it only if we find it compatible with the principles of the Quran.  Otherwise, it has to be rejected no matter how popular that imam is.  This culture of idolizing the imams comes from Christianity and Judaism where their clerics comprising of the priests, bishops, popes and rabbis etc.  are considered infallible who must be obeyed unconditionally.  But in Islam as per the rules of the Noble Quran, we have no such unconditional obligations toward other humans.  We are expected to respect and obey them only as long as they speak in conformity with the Quran .. and unfortunately many things said by the imams are not in conformity with the Noble Quran.  

You are also very right in stating that the Quran is the only Book which Allah wants us to follow to acquire guidance.  And the Quran is an independent and standalone Book.  Alhumdulilah.  It does not need the explanations of man-written literature to be understood as claimed by the imams who wrongly propagate that "Hadith explains the Quran and without Hadith we cannot understand the Quran."  Nauzbillah.  I consider such a statement as blasphemy.

That reminds me to also briefly discuss the falsehood of the concept of so-called "sunnah" as claimed by our ulemas and imams.  You will always observe them adding the term "sunnah" with the Quran.  Their standard explanation for this is that "Quran is the Book of Allah and sunnah is the tradition of the Prophet and to be a Muslim we must combine both."  If you ponder carefully on this statement, you will perceive that it's neither logical nor correct.  Allah has told us NOT to combine any other source of guidance with His Book.  In the lifetime of the beloved Prophet (pbuh), there was no such thing as "sunnah" in the context that it is used today. This came up much later.  The term "sunnah in the Quran refers to the conduct of all Prophets who took their rules of conduct from the original Divine Messages that were revealed to them from Allah Almighty.  It is the same in the case of the Final Messenger, Muhammad (pbuh).  But from the way our imams talk about "Quran and sunnah (or traditions of the Prophet)" they plainly refer to the Quran and sunnah being 2 different things.  They forget that Islam is a purely Monotheistic Faith (Tawheed) and we are to take our instructions only from Allah.  Therefore, my question from the imams is, from where do they think the Prophet (pbuh) took his traditions .. from Qureysh, from the Ansars of Medinah, from ancient Persia, from the Byzantine empire, from the Copts of Egypt OR from the NOBLE QURAN ?   Surely it's a very simple question to answer.  The Prophet (pbuh) strictly took all his guidelines from the Quran and NO other source.  And the Quran is NOT the words of the Prophet, but it is the Word of Allah.  Therefore, the reliable & truthful tradition of the Prophet (pbuh) can only be taken from the Quran and no other source.