06-23-2008, 01:17 PM
In 12 different positions in Allah's book, Allah Using direct command form Instructed the Muslim Ummah to obey the Messenger. The command took the forms of: obey Allah and obey the Messenger. Another form is: obey Allah and the Messenger or obey Allah and His Messenger. It came also as: obey the Messenger. In addition to those commands, the order to obey the Messenger came in an indirect form in 13 other Ayahs making the total number of Ayahs 25 are as follows:
"Say: "If you love Allah then follow me, Allah will (then) love you and forgive you of your sins. And Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful." (Quran 3:31)
"He who obeys the Messenger (Muhammad), has indeed obeyed Allah," (Quran 4:80).
"And We made the Qibla which you used to face (Jerusalem), only to test those who followed the Messenger from those who would turn on their heels (in disobedience)." (Quran 2:43).
In this Ayah, it is indicated that failure to follow the Messenger is deemed apostasy from Islam.
"On that day those who disbelieved and disobeyed the Messenger (Muhammad) will wish that they were buried in the earth, but they will never be able to hide a single fact from Allah." (Quran 4:42)
"We sent no Messenger, but to be obeyed by Allah's Leave." (Quran 4:64)
"And whoso obeys Allah and the Messenger (Muhammad), then they will be in the company of those on whom Allah has bestowed His Grace, of the Prophets, the truthful (foremost believers of the Prophets), the martyrs, and the righteous. And how excellent these companions are!" (Quran 4:69)
"On the Day when their faces will be turned over in the Fire, they will say: "Oh, would that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the Messenger (Muhammad)." (Quran 33:66)
"And whatsoever the Messenger (Muhammad) gives you, take it, and whatsoever he forbids you, abstain (from it)," (Quran 59:7)
"But no, by your Lord, they can have no Faith, until they make you (O Muhammad) judge in all disputes between them, and find in themselves no resistance against your decisions, and accept (them) with full submission." (Quran 4:65)
"The only saying of the faithful believers, when they are called to Allah (His Words, the Quran) and His Messenger, to judge between them, is that they say: "We hear and we obey." And such are the prosperous ones (who will live forever in Paradise)." (Quran 24:51)
"And whosoever obeys Allah and His Messenger, fears Allah, and keeps his duty (to Him), such are the successful ones." (Quran 24:52)
" And let those who oppose the Messenger's (Muhammad) commandment (i.e. his Sunnah legal ways, orders, acts of worship, statements, etc.) (among the sects) beware, lest some Fitnah (disbelief, trials, afflictions, earthquakes, killing, overpowered by a tyrant, etc.) befall them or a painful torment be inflicted on them." (Quran 24:63)
" It is not for a believer, man or woman, when Allah and His Messenger have decreed a matter that they should have any option in their decision. And whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger, he has indeed strayed in a plain error." (Quran 33:36)
The above mentioned set of Ayahs include sufficient arguments to respond to those who call themselves Quraneyeen in the sense of rejecting to believe in the Sunnah of Rasullah salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam. Just one Divine command from Allah may He be Glorified to His devotees for obeying the Messenger is enough to be binding for the Ummah. How about this large number of Ayahs confirming the command to follow the Messenger?
In the part centuries, this deviated group appeared several times, not only this, but the Messenger salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam foretold about them. They were also mentioned in the heritage books.
"I was given the book and a similar text with it, there will come a time when a man who is not hungry leaning comfortably on his couch saying, just follow this Quran, what you find within of Halal make it Halal and what you find of Haram, make it Haram (Al Meqdam Bin Ma`de yakreb/reported by Abu Daoud).
"I will find one of you leaning comfortably on his couch, hearing a command that I commanded or warned against, he would say, we do not know. What we find in the book of Allah, we follow" (Abu Raafi/ reported by Abu Daoud).
"There might be a man who hears a hadeeth narrated after me while he is leaning on his couch, he would say, between us and you is the book of Allah, what we find within of Halal, we take as Halal, and what we find within of Haram we take as Haram and that what the Messenger salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam made Haram is not like what Allah Made Haram (Al Meqdam Bin Ma`de yakreb/Termidhi, Ahmed, Bin Majeh and Bayhaqy).
Al Mubarakfoury reported in the explanation of this hadeeth "A Panjabi man in India came out with this argument and titled himself as Ahul Quran. However, there is no similarity between him and Ahul Quran. But rather he is of Ahul elhad (paganism). He allowed himself to refuse full texts of the prophetic hadeeth explaining that they are all lies and false sayings made on Allah Sobhanhu wa Ta`la. Only the glorious Quran should be taken as standard without any reference to the prophetic hadeeth even if they were authenticated and well verified in terms of narrators and more of the same Kufrish arguments. A large number of ignorant people followed his school that they even made him an Imam. Modern scholars issued a fatwa defining him as Kafir and apostate" End of Al Mubarakfoury's text.
Modern examples of those who deny the Sunnah is the Engineer Mohamed Metwally Naguib who died in 1960. He occupied the position of director of telephone authority in Egypt. He established Al Quranyeen group and composed more than 13 books explaining his school. The books represent nothing but hallucinations, over which, he spent all of his inheritance from his father (40 Feddan of land). Assalah, stands as his most important book, in which, he made the number of Salat 10. In performing the Salat, he made prostration (Sujud) to precede bowing (Ruku). He also canceled the Taheyaat part. He could not find any followers, thus, he apostated and died as Kafir. We conclude saying one who denies the Sunnah will be confronted with unsolvable Fiqh and Aqidah problems. He/she will be compelled to change Islam's identity deceiving himself and others of still being a Muslim. That is why sincere Imams and those who strive in the way of Allah, during different eras, are fully committed to the honorable prophetic Sunnah. They were also consensus to place it as an argument making it the second source of legislation in Islam.