Islam Without Hadith

[Union]

Salaam all . A very good article by Dr. Safdar D P .

Simple Islam
Criticism of Simple Islam

I read the article and I found the author's logic is very instrumental and undeniable . Thanks .

 

[safdar.dushantappeh]

Many thanks Union. I figured I put the abstract of the articles here for impatient readers. Here is the abstract for the article "Islam without Hadith"

As Quran predicts, the religion is divided into multiple branches [1] and each branch is under the impression that it is the true one. Each of you, the readers of this article, belongs to one of these different branches and probably very certain about the genuineness of the method practiced by your branch. Probably the Elders of your branch have taught you that only the followers of your branch--who essentially follow the Elders’ commands--will be awarded with redemption and the others will be barbecued in a dreadful fire. They will scare you about hell and tell you that worshipping the God is the way of salvation and that they are the only reference for how to worship--like God would have whispered into their ears all the details of worshipping. Probably the Elders of your branch have prepared a whole library of arguments that why you should refer only to them for every single detail of worshiping, and why the method of worshipping is so complicated, difficult, and beyond the comprehension of the general public, and only the people who have spent years in studying this complex approach and have become one of the Elders could tell how to be a servant of God.

The intention of this article is neither questioning the validity of your particular branch nor creating yet another one. The audience of this article is a muslim who loves his religion, is afraid of the fire, but is also fed up with blindly following the Elders of his branch. In this article, we explain a view of Islam which is simple enough to be understandable for all the muslims. Each muslim will be both the decider for his/her deeds and responsible for them. There is no need for Elders nor their complicated package of becoming one. It is eventually your call that whether the benefits of this Simple Islam outweigh its disadvantages or not.

In the rest, we first introduce Simple Islam, which is based on Quran and not the Hadith. We then present our arguments for adopting Simple Islam. We then explain the advantages and disadvantages of eliminating Hadith from the religious practice. The conclusion at the end is on the reader.

Simple Islam - Hadith-EN

 

[safdar.dushantappeh]

And here is the abstract of "Criticisms of Simple Islam":

To reject the theory of Simple Islam, one should show that believing in the three principles of the God, the judgement day, and Quran would require a muslim to believe in Hadith and the practiced approach of Hadith-mining for telling right from wrong. Here we list the Quran-based arguments that the critics of Simple Islam use and investigate them in detail. In summary, the difference in understanding of Simple Islam and the critics comes from these points:

1. The unit of miracle in Quran in chapter not verse. The verse hence should not be translated out of context as otherwise will cause misunderstanding.
2. An offered translation for a word must be consistent with the other usages of that word in Quran.
3. If a command is explicitly given to some particular people, to expand the audience of the command to muslims of the entire history, a strong argument must be provided.
4. The religious Elders (scholars) should not be confused with religion scientists and researchers. The former base their arguments on Hadith, which is practically not verifiable by an ordinary muslim with a limited time budget, while the latter base their arguments on Quran where every muslim can verify, and then accept or reject it. The latter hence does not cause the blind following relationship between the muslims and the researchers.

Simple Islam - Criticisms-EN