Quran, Hadith, and Islam
By Dr. Rashad Khalifa
All messengers delivered the same message, that you shall not worship except God, so disobeying them is disbelief or idol worship.“Since all the messengers delivered one and the same message, namely, "YOU SHALL NOT WORSHIP EXCEPT GOD," disobeying them constitutes disbelief, or idolworship.”
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Obeying the messenger is absolute only in the Quranic revelations, while Muhammad the man is to be obeyed only when he is right.“Obeying the messenger is absolute only as far as the Quranic revelations are concerned. Obeying the messenger is in upholding Quran, the whole Quran, and nothing but Quran.”“Thus, the condition is evident that Muhammad the man, unlike Muhammad the messenger, shall be obeyed ONLY IF HE IS RIGHT.”“nor disobey you WHEN YOU ARE RIGHT, you shall accept their pledge,”
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Obeying the messenger means obeying the words of God he uttered, the Quran, since the Quran came through his mouth; obeying a Hadith is obeying its narrator, not the Prophet.“Only a little thinking leads us to realize that Quran came to us through Muhammad's mouth, and DID NOT COME TO US FROM GOD DIRECTLY. Hence the commandment that we shall obey the messenger...for he utters the words of God.”“Thus, if the narrator of a given Hadith is for example a Abbas ibn Yasser, then obeying the Hadith narrated by Abbas ibn Yasser is in fact obeying Abbas ibn Yasser, and has nothing to do with obeying the Prophet.”“The true obedience of the Prophet Muhammad is only by obeying Quran, which was indeed uttered by Muhammad, and is supported by indisputable PHYSICAL EVIDENCE.”
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The Quran teaches that Muhammad the man committed serious errors, such as fearing people over God in the matter of Zeid's wife and frowning at the blind man.“Furthermore, the Quran teaches that Muhammad the man actually committed serious errors.”“One compete Sura illustrates the fact that we are to obey Muhammad ONLY in his Quranic utterances, and NOT in his personal utterances or personal behavior.”“Thus, you hid in yourself what God wanted to declare, and you feared the people when God is the one you should fear.”
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