{"id":437,"date":"2015-02-26T03:58:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T03:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azmi.co\/cust\/ngba-wp\/?page_id=437"},"modified":"2021-12-02T20:26:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:26:41","slug":"hadith-salah-why-believe-in","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=437","title":{"rendered":"HADITH &#038; SALAH-why believe in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">In the name of All\u0101h,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">the Beneficent, the Merciful.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Peace and Blessings of All\u0101h on Mohammad.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: red; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">DEDICATED TO<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">All\u0101h\u2013the Glorious and the High,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Lord of the worlds<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: red; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">AND TO<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Mohammad\u2013who brought the world<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">to our feet and eternity to our arms<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: red; font-size: 10pt;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: purple; font-size: 18pt;\">HADITH &amp; SALAH<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-size: 14pt;\">WHY BELIEVE IN HADITH<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 1.5;\">AND SALAH?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">(Please note:<\/span> When checking Qur\u2019anic references please check a few verses before or after those that I have listed, as the numbering system may vary by translators. I have mostly used Muhammad Ali\u2019s translation).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-size: 18pt;\"><em>Qur&#8217;an:<\/em><\/span> What is to be borne in mind is the Qur\u2019an was revealed over a period of twenty-three years. During this period unless he received Revelation in a matter the Prophet followed the Torah which requires death to adulterers, unchaste bride, apostate, blasphemer and homosexuals; which Biblical laws were annulled by subsequent Qur\u2019anic revelations\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:106; 16:101. See Muhammad Ali\u2019s comm. MA\u2019s translation of the Qur\u2019an can be viewed\/downloaded at: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.muslim.org\/\">www.muslim.org<\/a><\/span>).<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #800080;\"><em>Hadith <\/em><\/span>are to be viewed according to the background and time frame in which they were given <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013if it was before or after Qur\u2019anic revelation on the subject.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nNotably. Even in the lifetime of the Prophet sayings were forged in his name. Hazrat \u2018Ali, the fourth Caliph, is noted as saying: <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cDuring the very lifetime of the Holy Prophet (AS) many a false tradition was attributed to him. This continued till the apostle of God got so vexed that he stood up and declared, \u2018Whoever deliberately and purposely tells a lie against me or attributes lies to me shall make a place for himself in the Hell\u2019\u201d.<\/span><br \/>\nHazrat \u2018Ali also points out, some people \u201cinadvertently\u201d misquotes the Prophet; some interprets Hadith incorrectly; that some permissions were later \u201crepealed\u201d and some that were disallowed were later allowed; and <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cOrders of our Holy Prophet (AS) are of two kinds. Some are meant for special persons while others are for all Muslims and for all times\u201d\u2013(<em>Nahjul Balagha<\/em>, sermon 215, p.386. Also Bokhari Vol. 1, #106-109; Vol. 4, # 667, 712).<\/span><br \/>\nProphet Mohammad taught according to the Qur\u2019an\u2013(Qur\u2019an 10:15; 21:45; 46:9; 53:3-4). After revelation was given on a subject there was no going back to the old practice. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Whatever contradicts the Qur\u2019an is to be discarded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are Muslims who say they do not believe in Hadith. And some who do not offer Salah and also do not believe in reciting Arabic in Salah (since they do not know Arabic and that one should only communicate with All\u0101h in the language he under-stands).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">HADITH:<br \/>\nAll\u0101h says to take whatever the Prophet gives us and abstain from what he prohibits<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/span> and also for us to obey Him and obey the Prophet.<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/span><br \/>\nIf only the Qur\u2019an (All\u0101h) was to be followed why then did All\u0101h enjoin taking and forbidding as the Prophet decides; and why did He enjoin obedience to the Prophet (Hadith)?<br \/>\nHadith is an integral part of Islam! Prophets only act according to Divine instruction\u2013(Qur\u2019an 21:27<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">.<sup>3 <\/sup><\/span>As the Prophet taught only according to Divine Revelation, whatever in Hadith contradicts with the Qur\u2019an is to be discarded).<br \/>\nThus, Muslims who negate or try to negate Hadith are astray.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If not for the Hadith how do you know the Prophet used to meditate in Mount Hira and that was where he received his first revelation? If not for the Hadith how do you know the Prophet\u2019s first wife was Lady Khadijah and that when they got married she was forty and he was twenty-five?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While it may be advanced that the practical aspects of the Prophet\u2019s life \u2013postures in Salah and rituals of Hajj, etc\u2013 were demonstrated and copied down to us through our generations what about the sayings of the Prophet? And what about the history of Islam?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The disbelievers in Hadith will hardly know anything about Islam. Such as the names of the Prophet\u2019s parents, wives, his pre-prophethood history, names of the Caliphs as well as their history \u2013pre and post the Prophet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The disbelievers in Hadith will only be guessing how much zakaat to give.<br \/>\n-they will not know about water and mineral rights; medicine and cures; how to properly eat, sleep and clean;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">-they will not know that the night of Qadr is in the last ten nights of Ramadan;<\/span><br \/>\n-that we are not to pray while the sun has not fully ascended and fully descended the horizon, and at its zenith (times when the pagans worshipped the sun);<br \/>\n-that a month has 29 or 30 days;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">-that the Qur\u2019an is divided into seven and thirty parts;<\/span><br \/>\n-that the sun has set when the redness from the eastern sky has disappeared (and alternately that the sun has risen when the redness appears in the western sky);<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">-they will not know rulings on child custody;<\/span><br \/>\n-how to associate with our wives when she is menstruating \u2013All\u0101h says to keep away from them during their periods. But does this mean to keep away from them as the Jews keep away from their wives? It is the Prophet who explains what this \u201ckeeping away from them\u201d means. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(The scholars can find more examples of Hadith that explains the Qur\u2019an that are not detailed in the Qur\u2019an).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are many statements in the Qur\u2019an that we would be at a loss to understand if not for Hadith; for example All\u0101h reveals:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cYour wives are a tilth for you, so go in to your tilth when and how you like\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:223).<\/span><br \/>\nBut for the Hadith we would not know what the going into your wife \u201chow\u201d you like means. First a \u201ctilth\u201d is something that produces \u2013and woman is the producer of children. Going into your wife \u201chow\u201d you like does not mean sodomy as some seem to believe; this verse is explained by Jabir:<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cJews used to say that: \u201cIf one has sexual intercourse with his wife from the back (posterior position)*, then she will deliver a squint-eyed child.\u201d So this verse was revealed:- \u2018Your wives are a tilth unto you, so go to your tilth when or how you will.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>4<\/sup><\/span><br \/>\nWithout the Hadith we would not have known that this verse was revealed to dispel Jewish superstition. (*brackets mine).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But for the Hadith we would not have known that Abu Bakr was the one in the cave with Prophet Mohammad on the Hijrah to Madinah\u2013(Qur\u2019an 9:40; Bokhari Vol. 6, chap. 142, #185).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But for the Hadith we would not have known what it was that the Prophet had \u201cforbid\u201d himself and to which \u201cmatter\u201d All\u0101h was referring\u2013(Qur\u2019an 66:1-5. See <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=475:hafsa-scandal&amp;catid=4:content&amp;Itemid=6\">HAFSA SCANDAL<\/a><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But for the Hadith we would not have known that Qur\u2019an 24:11-20 was referring to the false charge of adultery against \u2018Aisha\u2013(Bokhari Vol. 6, chap. 213, #274).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But for the Hadith we would not have known that those on whom All\u0101h\u2019s wrath is upon are the Jews (for their breaking their covenant with All\u0101h) and that those who are astray are the Christians (for their ascribing Divinity to Jesus)\u2013(Qur\u2019an 1:7. Muhammad Ali notes: \u201cThe Holy Qur\u2019an speaks of the Jews as incurring Divine displeasure (2:61, 90; 3:112; 5:60) and it speaks of the Christians as having gone astray (5:77), and the Prophet is reported to have said: \u201cThose upon whom wrath is brought down are the Jews and those who went astray are the Christians\u201d (Tr. 44:2).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But for the hadith we would not know how to make up for our forgetfulness in our salaah <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013making <em>sahu sijdah<\/em> or <em>sijdah sawh<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That Hadith was collected hundreds of years after the death of the Prophet. So what? Hadith were written down during the life of the Prophet. Significantly, how do you know the Qur\u2019an was written down and memorized upon its revelation? How do you know that initially the Qur\u2019an was written on leaves and bark of trees and bones if not for the Hadith?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Notably, while hadith may have been collected hundreds of years after the death of the Prophet, Hadiths were written down during the Prophet\u2019s lifetime.<br \/>\nMuhammad Ali has noted in his <em>The Religion of Islam<\/em> that Abu Hurairah says:<br \/>\n\u201cNone of the Companions preserved more traditions than myself, but \u2018Abd Allah ibn \u2018Amr is an exception, for he used to write and I did not\u201d (<em>Bukhari <\/em>3:39). Also, \u201cAbu Hurairah is reported to have said: \u201cThe Prophet of God came to us while we were writing traditions and said: What is this that you are writing?\u00a0 We said: Sayings which we hear from thee. He said: What! a book other than the Book of God?\u201d Now the disapproval in this case clearly shows fear lest his sayings be mixed up with the revealed word of the Qur\u2019an, though there was nothing essentially wrong in writing these down nor did the Prophet ever forbid this being done.\u201d (p. 64)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That how can the Prophet say a person will go to paradise when the Prophet himself did not know where he will be going (that he does not know if he will go to Paradise or Hell)?<br \/>\nThe answer to this is simple. All\u0101h says the Prophet is the best exemplar,<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>5<\/sup> <\/span>that if we want All\u0101h to love us and forgive us our sins we must follow the Prophet;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>6<\/sup> <\/span>that the Prophet is the light-giving sun;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>7<\/sup><\/span> that Prophets do only as All\u0101h instructs;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>8<\/sup><\/span> that Mohammad will be given the right to intercession of the Day of Judgment;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>9<\/sup><\/span> that He guides Mohammad in the Right Way;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>10<\/sup><\/span> that Mohammad purifies;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>11<\/sup> <\/span>that Mohammad attained perfection;<sup><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">12<\/span>\u00a0<\/sup>that Mohammad is to be honored\/revered<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>13 <\/sup><\/span>and is blessed by All\u0101h and His angels<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>14\u00a0 <\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013where else could such a person be destined for but Paradise?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All\u0101h says that Muslims who do good will enter the Gardens\/ Paradise; and in His Qur\u2019an (33:35) He lists ten categories of men and women who will enjoy bliss in the Hereafter. Clearly then, observant Muslims know they are heading for Paradise. And as ordinary humans will inherit Paradise, how much greater a reward will the prophets of All\u0101h receive? Muslims are sure of the Hereafter\u2013(Qur\u2019an 27:2-3; 42:36-37).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Prophet saying that he does not know where he will be going could only be an illustration of the Absolute Power of All\u0101h <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013that All\u0101h is not accountable to anyone or bound or constrained by any law; He can do whatever He pleases; that even with all our good deeds He can yet consign us to Hell.<\/span> All\u0101h is the Ultimate Power; He has power over all things.<sup><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">15<\/span>\u00a0<\/sup>We are subjected to His mercy. We enter paradise through His Mercy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Muslims are to apply reason and to seek knowledge on their own and try to not blindly follow their Imams and Sheikhs. These Imams and Sheikhs could be leading them into Hell-Fire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Notably, contrary to some opinion, while the Hereafter is unseen to mortal eyes the word \u201c<em>Akhirah<\/em>\u201d does not mean <em>unseen<\/em> (an invisible object). <em>Akhirah <\/em>means Here-after <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013the next world.\u00a0<\/span>This is made clear in many places of the Qur\u2019an:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">-\u201cAnd this world\u2019s life is naught but a play and an idle sport. And certainly the abode of the Hereafter (<em>Akhirah<\/em>) is better for those who keep their duty\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 6:32);<br \/>\n-\u201cAnd all this is naught but a provision of this world\u2019s life; and the Hereafter (<em>Akhirah<\/em>) is with thy Lord only for the dutiful\u201d\u2013(43:35);<br \/>\n-\u201cAnd in the Hereafter (<em>Akhirah<\/em>) is a severe chastise-ment\u201d\u2013(57:20);<br \/>\n-\u201cBut, you prefer the life of this world, While the Hereafter (<em>Akhirah<\/em>) is better and more lasting\u201d\u2013(87:16-17).<br \/>\n-\u201cNo doubt that in the Hereafter (<em>Akhirah<\/em>) they (the rejecters of All\u0101h) are the losers\u2013(16:109).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SALAH:<br \/>\n<em>Not offering Salah and offering Salah in one\u2019s own language.<\/em> Who is the foremost interpreter of the Qur\u2019an the Imams and Sheikhs or the Prophet Mohammad?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All\u0101h says those who bow down (make ruku) and prostrate (make sujood) will receive a mighty reward\u2013(Qur\u2019an 9:111-112); and for us to \u201ckeep up <em>sal\u0101h <\/em>for My remembrance\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 20:14).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apart from <em>sal\u0101h <\/em>being the greatest force and that it is a prescription to help us avoid shameful deeds (in that we are to practice what we pray)\u2013(Qur\u2019an 29:45), <em>Salah<\/em> is the demonstration of the Holy <em>Kalimah<\/em> \u2013there is no God but All\u0101h, Mohammad is the Messenger of All\u0101h.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It reminds and cultivates us in practical shape five times a day that All\u0101h is the only presence worthy of worship \u2013that He is One and Only; the Eternal, Absolute, on Whom all depend; <em>having no consort<\/em> He begets not; <em>being the First and Creator of all and thus could not have a mother <\/em>He is not begotten; <em>being one with Divine attributes<\/em> there is none like Him; being <em>Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent<\/em> He has no need to and does not Incarnate; and that He is the Creator, Nourisher and Sustainer and Vanquisher of all things\u2013 and that Mohammad is only the Messenger of All\u0101h (that Mohammad is not God or son of God or partner of God or Incarnate of God).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And in this Salah we are rehearsing the Message from All\u0101h, which is the Supreme Divine Message. (And afterwards we can make supplication in the language we know).<br \/>\n-Salah is the second foundation of Islam. All\u0101h says to estab-lish regular Salah and gave their five daily timings<sup><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">16<\/span><br \/>\n<\/sup>-Salah is of such consequence that the Prophet prayed on his horse; and even during battle<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">-Reciting Sura Fatihah is of such significance that it is placed at the very opening of the Qur\u2019an. And Offering Salah and in Arabic is of such significance that the Prophet admonished that whoever does not pray Sura Fatihah did not pray: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201cWhoever does not recite Al-Fatiha in his prayer, his prayer is invalid\u201d\u2013(Bokhari Vol. 1 #723. Also Muslim Vol. 1, #\u2019s 775-782).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">-The Prophet offered Salah \u2013Tahajjud\u2013 in the deepest of night<sup><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">17<\/span><br \/>\n<\/sup>-All\u0101h says the Prophet is the best Exemplar, and we are to imitate him (and to imitate him also includes offering Salah)<br \/>\n-Salah distinguishes us from other religionists (and no other religionist pray in the manner Muslims pray).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How then we are not to offer Salah; and are to offer Salah in our own language other than Arabic?<br \/>\nMoreover, Islam is the universal religion and Muslims are of one brotherhood, as All\u0101h and the noble Messenger inform us.<br \/>\nThere is no universality and brotherhood in Muslims offering Salah in their respective languages. (See <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=556\">Arabic-why pray in?<\/a><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the arguments against offering Salah is that the acts of bending (ruku) and prostration (sujood) mimics that of the sun-worshippers who engaged in the same postures.<br \/>\nSo what? Because the sun-worshippers ate beef Muslims are not to eat beef?<br \/>\nWhen the sun-worshippers engaged in these postures they glorify the sun. When Muslims are in these positions we do not glorify the sun, we glorify the Creator of the sun (and of everything else); in ruku we praise \u201cglory be to All\u0101h, the magnificent\u201d and in sujood we praise \u201cglory be to All\u0101h the High.\u201d<br \/>\nSo how then it is claimed that Muslims imitate the sun-worshippers?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moreover, these postures as noted above are recommended by All\u0101h. So then, is All\u0101h imitating or telling Muslims to imitate the pagan sun-worshippers (and He sent the Prophet Mohammad to obliterate paganism)?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Again, All\u0101h says for us to leave off business and work and take part in Jumu\u2019a Salah\u2013(Qur\u2019an 62:9-11). Do the opponents of Salah also reject this injunction of All\u0101h? If not, how do they pray Jumu\u2019a? And Jumu\u2019a Salah also has the obligation of ruku and sujood which they claim is of pagan origin. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(Incidentally, the pagans also fasted, would these Muslims also abandon fasting, which is prescribed by Allah and which All\u0101h has designated as being for Him?)<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>18<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another argument against Salah is the claim that the order to face the Qiblah\/Ka\u2019ba is figurative \u2013meaning that it is a spiritual focus. But All\u0101h specifically enjoins the facing of the Sacred Mosque when we come to pray:<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cIndeed We see the turning of thy face to heaven, so We shall surely make thee master of the <em>qiblah <\/em>which thou likest; turn then thy face towards the Sacred Mosque. And wherever you are turn your faces towards it\u2026And from whatsoever place thou comest forth, turn thy face towards the Sacred Mosque&#8230;.And from whatsoever place thou comest forth turn thy face towards the Sacred Mosque. And wherever you are turn your faces towards it, so that people may have no plea against you except such of them as are unjust \u2014 so fear them not and fear Me \u2014 and that I may complete My favour to you and that you may go aright\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:144, 149-150).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another facile claim against offering Salah in Arabic (but in one\u2019s own language) is that the Qur\u2019anic verse says to not come to prayer unless you know what you are saying: <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cO you who believe, go not near prayer when you are intoxicated till <em>you know what you say<\/em>\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 4:43)<\/span>.<sup><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">19<\/span><br \/>\n<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.5;\">While it is better that one knows the Arabic (and one can know the meaning from reading translation), this verse is telling us to be conscious of the words we are uttering \u2013we are not to be groggy with sleep or otherwise\u2013 not that we are to know the meaning of it.<br \/>\n<\/span>The Qur\u2019an is the Word of All\u0101h, the best Message, and contains no evil; thus whether we understand its meaning or not we are rehearsing the Message and the words of Allah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All\u0101h instructs the Prophet to recite in <strong><em>Salah<\/em><\/strong> how much of the Qur\u2019an is easy for him: <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cThy Lord knows indeed that thou passest in prayer nearly two-thirds of the night\u2026.so READ OF THE QUR\u2019AN that which is easy for you\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 73:20).<\/span><br \/>\nAnd the noble Messenger instructed us likewise: <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cWhen you stand for Prayer (Salah) say Takbir and then recite from THE HOLY QUR\u2019AN\u201d\u2013(Bokhari Vol. 1, #724).<\/span> And as noted above the Prophet said whoever does not pray the Fatihah, his prayer is invalid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The noble Messenger of All\u0101h and his pious wives sacrificed their privacy and bare their intimate lives to help explain the Qur\u2019an\/Islam so we could have guidance; and myopic Sheikhs and Imams are teaching their (foolish) followers to negate <em>Hadith <\/em>and <em>Salah<\/em>. (???).<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">These Sheikhs and Imams need to use their mouths less and their heads more; they might be kindling their Hell-Fire with their tongues.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0NOTES<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Qur\u2019an 59:7; Bokhari Vol. 6, #408.<\/li>\n<li>Qur\u2019an 3:32, 132; 4:13, 69; 8:1, 20, 24; 24:54, 56; 47:33; 57:7; 64:12.<\/li>\n<li>See also Qur\u2019an 11:12-14; 21:45; 46:9; 53:3-4. As Prophets act only according to Divine instructions they are thus sinless.<\/li>\n<li>Bokhari Vol. 6, #51.<\/li>\n<li>Qur\u2019an 33:21; 68:4; 69:40;<\/li>\n<li>Qur\u2019an 3:31; (7:157-158).<\/li>\n<li>Qur\u2019an 33:45-46;<\/li>\n<li>Qur\u2019an 11:12-14; 21:27, 45; 46:9; 53:3-4. As Prophets act only according to Divine instructions they are thus sinless.<\/li>\n<li>Qur\u2019an 43:86; 19:87 (Bokhari Vol. 1, # 98; Vol. 4, # 556; Vol. 9, #\u2019s 600-601); (See M. Ali comm; 2264);<\/li>\n<li>Qur\u2019an 42:52-53; 43:61, 64.<\/li>\n<li>Qur\u2019an 62:2.<\/li>\n<li>Qur\u2019an 53:6.<\/li>\n<li>Qur\u2019an 48:9.<\/li>\n<li>Qur\u2019an 33:56.<\/li>\n<li>Qur\u2019an 2:284; 3:29; 6:12-13, 65; 16:77.<\/li>\n<li>Qur\u2019an 2:43, 110, 177; 6:72; 14:31; 17:78; 22:78; 24:56; 29:45; 30:31; 31:3-5; 35:29; 42:36-39; 58:13; 73:20; five daily, 4:103-104; 11:114; 17:78; 20:130; 30:17-18; (See M. Ali comm; 619; 1457; 1934).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"17\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAnd during a part of the night, keep awake by it, beyond what is incumbent on thee; maybe thy Lord will raise thee to a position of great glory;\u201d \u201cO thou covering thyself up! Rise to pray by night except a little, Half of it, or lessen it a little, Or add to it, and recite the Qur\u2019an in a leisurely manner\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 17:79; 73:1-4)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Qur\u2019an 2:183-187; Bokhari Vol. 3, #118, 128; Vol. 9, #584; Muslim Vol. 2, #2564-2572.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Muhammad Ali comments on this statement: \u201cThere is some difference of opinion as to what is meant by <em>sukara <\/em>here. Literally, the singular <em>sakaran <\/em>signifies <em>one intoxicated<\/em>, but while some consider the meaning here to be <em>intoxicated with drink<\/em>, others think it to be <em>intoxicated with sleep<\/em>, (T, LL). And <em>sakr<\/em>, no doubt, may be applied in the latter sense, for its literal significance is <em>stopping up <\/em>(LL). The word is also applied to <em>confusion of judgment <\/em>(LL). The Holy Qur\u2019an speaks of <em>sakrat al-maut <\/em>(50:19) or the condition when one loses his senses at the approach of death. <em>Sakrat al-hamma <\/em>means the condition in which a person loses his senses on account of extreme grief. <em>Sakrat al-naum <\/em>is the condition when on account of the oppressive sensation of sleep one is not in full possession of one\u2019s senses. The word as used here may carry any of these senses. The prohibition against praying when intoxicated was a step towards the total prohibition of drink, for the necessity of going to prayer five times a day would afford little opportunity for indulgence in drink. The verse makes it further clear that one must know the significance of what one says when praying to God.\u201d\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\">(MA\u2019s translation of the Qur\u2019an can be viewed\/downloaded at<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.muslim.org\">www.muslim.org<\/a><\/span>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the name of All\u0101h, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Peace and Blessings of All\u0101h on Mohammad. DEDICATED TO All\u0101h\u2013the Glorious and the High, Lord of the worlds AND TO Mohammad\u2013who brought the world to our feet and eternity to our arms * HADITH &amp; SALAH WHY BELIEVE IN HADITH AND SALAH? 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