09-21-2006, 08:49 PM
salam alaykum.
I'm afraid i must disagree with parts of your post, my brother.
Quote:First and formost The Quran is the speech of Allah( swt) so it's definately complete and true
That's not right. Allah's speech is always truth. But it's not always complete. The Qur'an never describes or mentions playing on a games console. Does this make the Qur'an incomplete? In a way, yes. If we restrict 'complete' to just having all Islamic laws, then no.
Quote:...Now in the Quran allah has told us that the Prophet Muhammed (saw) is the Last Messenger and that we should follow him to learn our religion so the sunnah is the legal ways of the Prohet Muhammed (saw) which is everything he said, did & silently approved of and the Hadith is a narration of the sunnah from the Salaf (Predecessors) which were his companions
There are problems. The Qur'an tells us to obey the prophet. However, it also says that if the prophet would say anything NOT from God, then the revelations would stop coming. Thus, when speaking Islamically, everything the prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings upon him, spoke was from God. So when the Qur'an tells us to obey the prophet, it tells us to obey him regarding Islam. Not how we should eat or whatever else is in the Hadiths. Eating with your right hand because your left hand is like the devil or whatever that hadith was, is absurd. Does eating with your wrong hand really get you a few sins? There are many other problems with such hadiths.
If we talk about Islam related hadiths, such as how we should pray, then this is what we should be obeying. There's a difference between blindly following everything and carefully following the logical religious things. There's even a hadith which tells you to drink while standing. When i came back from holiday, the internet showed me a contradicting hadith which told me to drink while sitting down. Both of this hadiths are not related to Islam, and should be ignored.
Also let us remember many of the last prophet's companions burned their hadiths.
Quote:so with that being said it is not for us to question what Allah says is so because he is our lord and Allahu Aalam
We can question Allah for reasons. But we can't oppose Him. For truth and knowledge are great tools and lead to understanding. Without understanding, everything would be pointless. Why worship God, if we have no reason? There's a reason to worship God. So we worship Him.
Glorious Qur'an [17:36]: You shall not accept any information, unless you verify it for yourself. I have given you the hearing, the eyesight, and the brain, and you are responsible for using them.
Quote:Questioning the Sunnah and Hadith is like questioning your lord and what he has decree (Qadar)
Wrong. A simple human man named Muhammed, who was a cammal trader susposedly revealed these Hadiths. What we must remember, as i explained above, is that we only obey him regarding Islam. We do not obey him regarding how to play chess or whatever. The hadiths telling you to drink when standing or sitting are not Islamically related. And they are not scientific hadiths (i.e. stand and drink because it's healthy or vice versa) because the body uses muscle to move drink and food. So those hadiths have no revelance at all. This is reason one why to dismiss these two particular hadiths.
Reason two is that those two hadiths contradict each other. Which suggests that either the prophet Muhammed, peace and blessings upon him, gave this as an opinion. Not as a fact from God. Because God does not make mistakes. Also it might suggest that one of them are fake. Supporting the idea of corruption among the hadiths.
May God bless you.