The way Hadith replaces Quran!

Quran never fixed it for us who can read it and who can determine the message of it. It has asked the people to consult the learned persons/scholars though, to better decode and understand Allah’s message out of it. However, it never fixed any criteria a scholar should have for interpreting the Quran. It’s open. Anybody or any group of people without having a formal degree can be a scholar of Quran/Islam. It does not tell us that those scholars must graduate from Al Azhar or Madina university and have to have a Ph.D. in Usul Fiqh. Islam does not approve of any clergy culture, rather Islam is here to destroy the clergy-culture.

But these guys want that.

Because these guys always fear losing their authority which is developed based primarily on Muslims’ blind belief and that’s why they push the Muslims toward blind belief and keep away from understanding the Quran from a practical perspective.

This Hadithization of Islam is the root cause of all ills and problems pertaining to Islam.

In Christianity, Jesus is, for all practical purposes, the primary worshipers coming before God himself. God is essentially secondary in Christianity.

Hadith-industry made the case almost similar in Islam. Hadith-industry made Muslims believe that they would not be able to go to Jannah without the recommendation of Allah’s rasul (PBUB). If you notice very carefully and deeply, you would find that all of the Alems cite Hadiths for matters that have more precise corresponding verses in the Quran. This is just one of a thousand examples. This is how the Quran has been replaced by Hadiths in most of the cases.

It’s humanly impossible to get the verbatim of any facts or statement if it’s not video-recorded. Nobody in the entire universe would be able to write a statement (e.g. two or three long sentences) from a Jumma Khutbah verbatim even just after returning home from the mosque.

Again, there is no science in the entire human civilization that can ensure that hearsay can be transmitted authentically (verbatim) to the generations. This is an absolute human limitation that can never be fixed.

And we have got not a single Hadith that was written by the certain Sahabi after listening to it from Allah’s rasul.

Blind belief makes people so blind that they can equate Hadith with the Quran. In fact, these guys always put Hadith before the Quran, although they always claim that they do it the other way round.

Quran doesn’t tell us to believe anything beyond Quran as Allah’s message. Only the blind believer and irrational people do that.

The only authority of Islam is Allah and in other words the Quran. No one else.

Note: This was written in a partial response to Hamza Yusuf’s lecture in the Oxford Center recently. His lecture can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb5BA088tq4