Twelve reasons to follow the Quran alone as the source of religious law, citing verses on the messenger's sole duty and the late recording of hadith and sunnah. George Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation appears alongside Quranic verses on appreciating God's blessings. Readers' letters include a former Christian's account of finding the Quran through the website.
1) The Quran commands all Muslims to follow the Quran Alone, this command is found in numerous verses, the following are examples:
These are God’s revelations that We recite to you truthfully. In which hadith other than God and His revelations do they believe? (45:6)
Note the usage of the word hadith in this verse.
Shall I seek other than God as a source of law, when He has revealed to you this book fully detailed? (6:114)
2) The prophet lived his life according to the Quranic principles. No where in the Quran is there any mention of Sunnah of Muhammad! The Quran confirms that the only Sunnah is the Sunnah of God:
This is God’s eternal system, and you will find that God’s system is unchangeable. (33:62)
Literally, this verse says, “You will find that the Sunnah of Allah (God) is the only Sunnah.” Note the usage of Sunnah by God. Is this coincidence? (See also 35:43, 48:23)
3) The Quran confirms that the only duty of Muhammad (or of any messenger) is to deliver God’s message, and not to teach any other teachings:
The only duty of the messenger is to deliver God’s message. (5:99; see also 5:92, 16:35, 16:82, 24:54, 29:18, 42:48, 64:12)
4) God commands the believers to obey the prophet, but God also makes sure that the obedience to the prophet is linked to obeying the message he delivered and nothing else. Obeying the prophet does not mean that he had a Sunnah to be obeyed.
The confirmation that the obedience to the prophet is linked to obeying the message he delivered (the Quran) is confirmed in the following verse:
Obey God and obey the messenger. If you shall turn away then the sole mission of the messenger is to deliver the message (the Quran) (64:12)
Note how the obedience to the prophet and the deliverance of the Quran are linked in the same verse.
5) You will never read any where in the Quran words like “Obey God and obey Muhammad” or obey Jesus, or Moses. It is always the word “messenger” that is used in order to emphasize that what is to be obeyed is the message of God and not the personal words of any messenger.
6) The Quran also confirms that Muhammad was commanded not to teach any other teachings, otherwise he would incur severe punishment from God:
This (the Quran) is a revelation from the Lord of the universe. Had he (Muhammad) uttered any other teachings, We would have punished him, and We would have stopped the revelations to him. None of you could have helped him. (69:43-47)
7) Muhammad was made to swear that the only revelation he received from God was the Quran. The following verse confirms that all of what is known as “hadith al-qudsy” (sacred sayings) are practically lies that the prophet is innocent of:
Say (O Muhammad) “whose testimony is the greatest?” Say “God’s.” He is the witness between me and you that this Quran has been inspired to me to preach it to you and whomever it reaches… (6:19)
If the “hadith al-qudsy” was indeed God speaking to Muhammad as they falsely claim, wouldn’t the verse carry a testimony to that??
Nowhere in the Quran is there any indication that Muhammad received from God anything other than the Quran.
8) Prophet Muhammad himself commanded his people not to write his hadiths (sayings). This is historically recorded in the books of Sahih Muslim and other hadith books:
“Do not write down anything of me except the Quran. Whoever writes other than that should delete it” (Ahmed, Vol. 1, page 171; also in the books of Sahih Muslim)
9) For the first 150 years to 200 years after the death of the prophet the writing of his hadith was forbidden, in accordance with his commands. The first one to document a comprehensive collection of hadith was Al-Bukhari. Note that Al-Bukhari was born in the
year 198 after Hijrah (prophet’s emigration to Medina). What does that make you think??
Even if we were to follow the hadith, how accurate can a collection of sayings documented two centuries after the death of the prophet be??
10) God commands the prophet in the Quran to say that he is infallible in the revelation he delivers, but that he may commit errors in his personal words and hadiths:
Say “If I go astray, I go astray because of my shortcomings, and if I am rightly guided it is due to the revelation I receive from my Lord.” (34:50)
In spite of that confirmation and also six incidents in the Quran when the prophet is reprimanded by God for the errors he committed, the idolizers of Muhammad claim that he was infallible!! These incidents are found in 8:67-68, 9:43, 9:113-114, 33:37, 66:1 and 80:1-11.
11) The Quran confirms that every prophet will have enemies of the human and jinn devils who will fabricate fancy sayings and attribute them to the prophet to deceive the people:
We have permitted the enemies of every prophet, human and jinn devils, to inspire in each other fancy sayings, in order to deceive. (6:112)
God also asserts that only the disbelievers will listen to such fabrications (see 6:113)
12) Finally, we are told that the Quran is totally sufficient for the genuine believer as a source of law for the following reasons:
A- The Quran is not in need of an annex since it is complete:
City of New York, October 3, 1789
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor, and Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me "to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many single favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. That we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks, for His kind care and protection of the People of this country previous to their becoming a Nation, for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of His Providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war, for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed, for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge and in general for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions, to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually, to render our national government a blessing to all the People, by constantly being a government of wise, just and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed, to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shown kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord. To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and Us, and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.
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God tells us in the Quran that He blesses the people and communities who are appreciative of His provisions and blessings. Only the disbelievers are unappreciative of their Creator and they will eventually suffer the consequences of their disbelief and arrogance. Here are some verses on appreciation and thanksgiving:
Your Lord has decreed: “The more you thank Me, the more I give you.” But if you turn unappreciative, then My retribution is severe. 14:7
You shall remember Me, that I may remember you, and be thankful to Me; do not be unappreciative. 2:152
What will GOD gain from punishing you, if you became appreciative and believed? GOD is Appreciative, Omniscient. 4:147
And He gives you all kinds of things that you implore Him for. If you count GOD’s blessings, you can never encompass them. Indeed, the human being is transgressing, unappreciative. 14:34
We have endowed Luqmaan with wisdom: “You shall be appreciative of GOD.” Whoever is appreciative is appreciative for his own good. As for those who turn unappreciative, GOD is in no need, Praiseworthy. 31:12
“The word of your Lord is complete in truth and justice” (6:115)
B- The Quran is not in need of an explanatory supplement since it is clear and is not ambiguous:
A.L.R. These are the signs of the clear book. (12:1)
We have made it (the Quran) easy to understand and in your own tongue (language) may you take heed. (44:58)
C- The Quran is not in need of a correction manual since it is perfect and harbors no contradictions:
A.L.R. This is a book whose verses have been perfected. (11:1)
D- The Quran is not in need of a step by step guide since it is fully detailed (6:114).
For all these reasons, all Muslims should follow the Quran, the whole Quran and nothing but the Quran.
PRAISE GOD
A. Muhammad
As-salaamu alaikum,
Just a quick note of thanks. Due to the pressure of work, etc., I had about four recent issues on top of my desk which I hadn’t had a chance to read yet. Recently I was pretty unhappy about some things in the Islamic world, including in this country, and was in effect shaking my head wondering what I was doing in Islam. Then I read through the Submitters Perspective copies on my desk, and they were wonderful antidote. I felt much better.
Thanks a whole big bunch for what you folks do.
Blessings, M. A.
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I was lost for many years in the Christian religion. At work one of my co-workers who was white, had a mother and father who were pastors in the Christian faith. He would say the Bible contradicts itself and we would have debates and no one could say he was wrong.
We would just assume the Bible is right and don’t question it because of fear. I used to call the Muslims racist because of what the media portrays Malcolm X and Farrakhan.
But recently like the Quran stated that a creature made of earthly things would bring God’s word, the truth, and man still would not understand or believe. The internet which is the computer lead me to your website. I don’t know why but now I see the truth the Quran speaks and I tried to find contradictions but couldn’t.
Every Christian I debated would state contradictions in a debate and turn away once they heard the truth. It says it in the Quran that man will turn from God’s word because of their inventions and lies. I surely thank you for the insight and the truth I read your web site every day and will order in the future books and audio tapes to better strengthen my soul with God.
Keep up the good work of God
Your new Muslim friend. D.L.S.
About this work
| Kind | Newsletter |
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| Author | International Community of Submitters |
| Publisher | International Community of Submitters / Masjid Tucson |
| Published | November 1999 |
| Collection | Newsletters |
| Topics | The Quran, Completeness of the Quran, Hadith and Sunna, Obeying the Messenger, Religious Innovations |
Identifiers
| Address | https://wikisubmission.org/library/work/submitters-perspective-november-1999-60329fbe567dd4d4 |
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| ID | 01a127b5-7b27-74d7-b1c3-2c2287ed6b7a |