| God wants us to have full respect to His
prophets and messengers. Many of God's prophets and messengers
are mentioned in the Quran, the book described by God as the
absolute truth. Quran describes prophet Muhammed to us and asks
the believers to respect him. The description of prophet
Muhammed in the Quran is in marked contrast to the distorted and
insulting picture of him in the books of Hadiths and Sunna.
Let us find out what the Quran says about the
prophet Muhammed and compare it with what the Hadith books say.
"NuN, the pen and what
they write. You (Muhammed) have attained a great blessing from
your Lord; you are not crazy. You have attained a recompense
that is well deserved. You are blessed with a great moral
character. (Quran 68:1-4)
What a beautiful description from the Lord of
the universe. About being a compassionate human being God
describes his prophet in the Quran in chapter 3
"It was mercy from God
that you became compassionate towards them. Had you been harsh
and mean-hearted, they would have abandoned you. Therefore, you
shall pardon them, ask forgiveness for them, and consult them.
Once you make a decision, carry out your plan, and trust in God.
God loves those who trust in Him."
(Quran,
3:159)
The Quran teaches us to respect the prophet
while he is alive (49:2, 24:62). Once he is dead, we can no
longer respect him, but we can respect and obey the message he
brought up, the living messenger. If we
truly respect the
prophet, we must follow the message that he received from God
Almighty, Quran. Unfortunately, millions of Muslims all over the
world are expressing their respect to the dead prophet Muhammad
through idolizing him- a practice that is contrary to the
teachings of the Quran .
Never would a human
being whom God, blessed with the scripture and prophet hood say
to people, "Idolize me beside God." Instead, (he would say),
"Devote yourselves absolutely to your Lord alone," according to
the scripture you preach and the teachings you learn."
(Quran
3:79)
Our love and respect to any messenger should
be only through the love and the respect of the message he
delivered, and the scripture he brought up. When God's
messengers are dead, the only living messenger we have to love
and respect would be the scripture, the infallible word of God.
God's choice of the word "messenger" in the following verse,
9:24, is very precise and deliberate. God didn't mention the
name Muhammad instead of "his messenger" for us to love, but
rather He chose to leave it as general as "His messenger". God
does not err or run out of words. He specifically chose "His
messenger" knowing that His prophet will be dead, and all what
we need to love besides God is His living messenger, the Quran.
The Quran, in its perfect Arabic tongue,
teaches us that the word messenger(rasool) could also be used
for the message itself (resalah). The scriptures also fulfill
the same exact function of a messenger: delivering, warning, and
confirming God's message and scriptures (65:10-11, 11:1-2, 14;1,
27:1-2, 5:46-48). Therefore, our love in the following verse is
not to be offered for Muhammad the human, but for the living
messenger of God, the Quran:
"Proclaim:" If your
parents, your children, your siblings, your spouses, your
family, the money you have earned, a business you worry about,
and the homes you cherish are more beloved to you than God and
His messenger, and the striving in His cause, then just wait
until God brings His judgment." God does not guide the wicked
people." 9:24
Now, what picture do the Hadith books have for
the prophet ?. These are the books collected about 150 to 200
years after the death of the prophet and after the prophet and
the first four Caliphs who ruled after him refused to collect
them. These alleged Hadiths and Sunna books, contrary to
common belief, blaspheme against the Prophet and depict him as a
vicious tyrant who did not uphold the Quran. These books were
written against the commandment in the Quran and the requests of
the Prophet , not to write but the Quran. (See our section on
Hadith and Sunna) Let us give only one example, to avoid any
more embarrassment from the Hadith books.
In an allegedly authentic Hadith reported by
Bukhari and Hanbel, "A group of people from the Oreyneh and
Oqayelh tribes came to the prophet to embrace Islam, the prophet
advised them to drink the urine of the camels. Later on when
they killed the prophet's shepherd, the prophet seized them,
gouged out their eyes, cut their hands and legs, and left them
thirsty in the desert to die." Part of the blasphemy is calling
this hadith, a Sahih hadith.
This is the picture that Hadith books depict
the prophet Muhammed, the prophet, God described in the Quran as
compassionate. This is the picture that the enemies of Islam
put in the fabricated Hadiths books . It is for those who
refused to follow the absolute truth of God in the Quran by
upholding the Quran ALONE.
Now do we know why God described His book, the
Quran as the best Hadith, the most truthful Hadith, the
non-fabricated Hadith ?
Do we know why we should believe God in the
Quran ?
Is this what the scholars want us to believe
the prophet Muhammed was ?
Only the enemies of God, the enemies of the
prophet Muhammed and the enemies of Islam are the ones who want
us to believe these fabricated Hadiths. Those who are defending
these books that were prohibited by the prophet Muhammed himself
are defending the wrong Islam. We need to defend the Quran
instead, we need to uphold the Quran instead, we need to follow
the Quran instead.
Now that the prophet Muhammed is not amidst
the Muslims anymore, respecting him is to follow his
message, the one and only message he left when he died, the
Quran , the whole Quran ALONE. Following the books that he
prohibited, that are full of insult to God, the Prophet, his
family and Islam is but a show of disrespect and disbelief.
Those who claim to follow the alleged Hadiths
books however refuse to follow one of their so called authentic
Hadith that may have saved them, the prophet said " Do not write
from me anything but the Quran, those who wrote anything but the
Quran should erase it." (Moslem and Ahmed). |
