MUSLIM PERSPECTIVE Bulletia of the UNITED ISLAMIC NATION Not Sunni * Not Shia * Only Muslim Published Monthly by Masjid Tucson MAY 198 Editor: Rashad Khana, PhD. RAMADAN 1406 1000 SALAT: CONTACT PRAYER Salat prayer is the most important practice • Islam, because it is our daily worship. This : a continuation of the on-going research into is most vital issue. Since the Arabic word SALAT ; rooted in the word SILAT which means connection r contact, the best translation for SALAT is :ONTACT PRAYER. This should differentiate ur most important practice from the commoners tatement: "I pray all day!" The statement by on-Muslims that they pray all day resulted from ne erroneous translation of SALAT into "prayer." . he Muslim who prays should say,"I make contact 'ith my Creator five times each day," instead f saying, "I pray five times a day." The main objective of this article is to present urther evidence that AL FATIHAH is all that required during the standing position of the ontact prayers. We must read Qur'an everyday, specially at dawn (17:78), but not during the ontact prayers. Not only AL FATIHAH alone required, but also the addition of anything else uring the standing position destroys the contact etween you and God. As stated in Qur'an 2:37, od gave Adam specific words whereby Adam as redeemed. Similarly, God has given us specific _utter during ords, namely, AL FATIHAR, to ALAT. You can think of AL FATIHAH as elephone number. If you wish to call someone, ›u must dial the specific numbers of that person's elephone. You cannot establish contact unless su dial those specific numbers. When contacting our Creator, you must utter the specific number : letters and sounds that God Himself has given ;. To illustrate the error in uttering other Quranic verses after AL FATIHAH, imagine yourself doing the contact prayer. You stand up facing the Qiblah. then you open the contact by raising up your hands as you say Allahu Akbar. Then you recite AL РАТІНАН saying,"In the name of God. the most gracious, most merciful. Praise be to God, Lorc of the universes. The most gracious, most merciful.' you speak to God, saying, "On!! You we worship; only You we ask for help." And you continue to speak to God, saying,"Guide us in the right path. The path of those whom You blessed: not of those who incur wrath, nor the strayers." This should be the end of it in the standing position. But we used to utter additional Qur'an. This additional Qur'an is recognized by all imams of jurisprudence (Sunni and/or Shia) as non-obligatory. Now look carefully at what we. used to say to We used to say things God after AL FATIHA. like, "INNAA A'ATAYNAKAL KAWTHAR" which means "We have given you many bounties."!!! Here, we tell God, as we speak to Him, "We have given You many bounties!!!" Does this make sense? We never even thought about it. We were so wrapped up in the innovations inherited from our parents, that we didn't think about the things we were telling our Creator. We used to say things AHAD" which like, "QUL HUWAL LAAHU we are ordering means, "Say, 'God is One."" Here God to state that God is one!!! We used to utter things, after AL FATIHAH like "QUL A'UZU BI RABBIL FALAQ." Here we were telling God to seek refuge in the Lord of daybreak!!! Thank God for leading us out of the darkness of innovatior into the light of truth; we now the mistakes see we inherited from our parents. WHO ARE WE? During the past 14 centuries traditions, customs, superstitions, and innovations have crept into Islam. Graduall!; these distortions came to be vested with such religious solemnitv that anvone who questions them finds himself regarded as the dangerous innovator and heretic. Islam today is like a precious jewel that is buried under piles upon piles oi "thiate all distortions end present the legs of
MUSLIM 'ULAMA CHALLENGE GOD PRODUCE SOMETHING "EQUAL" TO QUR'AN By Mchammed Kamaludin Singapore RABITAT AL'ALAM AL ISLAMI, the official Arabic magazine of the Muslim World League, in its 1983 March issue carried an article titled TADWEEN AL SUNNAH by Ustad Muhammad Nizami. He quotes SUNAN ABI DAWOOD that the Prophet had declared that."Know that Qur'an and the LIKE of it ('mithluhu i.e. Sunnah) was given to me." Nir. Nizami also states the reasons for "equality (mumathalah) of sunnah with Qur'an." to the DECLARATION simply This THAT SUNNAH IS SIMILAR TO QUR'AN. Since : the written record of Sunnah is Hadith, then Hadith is LIKE Qur'an! The similarity of the two is further reiniorced by the 'facts' (as claimed by the author). He states that Sunnah/Hadith is inspired in idea orm. is used in pravers and preaching, and is guidance for mankind.' He also states compilers oi Hadith were really 'truthful' scholars, and that all of them are imams! But God has challenged the world in Qur'an: "Let them produce a Hadith LIKE IT (MITHLIHI) if they are truthful." (52:34) - i.e. like Qur'an), History records that from the time of Rasulullah io this day the unbelieving section of humanity has never produced any hadith or book which the Muslims could use LIKE QUR'AN. But here we see an outstanding Muslim 'Alim, representing 'ulamadom' of Islam DECLARING IN AN OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE 'ULAMA THAT THEY HAVE LIKE QUR'AN; THAT PRODUCED SOMETHING THEY HAVE THE SUNNAH/HADITH IS LIKE QUR'AN! 5 THIS NOT THE SAME AS CHALLENGING GOD BACK? IS THIS NOT EQUAL TO ADMITTING ACCEPTANCE OF GOD'S CHALLENGE TO PRODUCE SOMETHING SIMILAR OR EQUAL *O QUR'AN? IS THIS NOT A WORD FOR WORD FULFILLMENT OF GOD'S PROPHECY? The legality of Sunnah/Hadith cannot be claimed on the basis oi verses 53:3-4: "He does not speak on his own. This is a divine inspiration." (3) without admitting ihat the Prophet's actions that led to described in 66:1,80:1-10.18:23, :%. 33:31, 40:66. and 93:7 were also inspired. And it is noi explained at all that having inspired the Prophe: io do something. then, when done, why Allah REPRIMAND him and immortalize does those incidents in Qur'an! an hadith that "in the Ustad Nizami quotes beginning the writing of hadith was forbidden ("Do not write anything from me except Qur'an. Those who have written anything other than Qur'an for the reasons that "hdith might shall erase it.) get mixer. "p with Qur'an and might hinder the memorizatiu? of Qur'an." In fact, this danger of hadith 'getting mixed up with Qur'an' existed until the final verse of Qur'an was revealed. (The Prophet died nine days after revelation of last verse.) Any attempt at writing Hadith during that period, therefore, constitutes clear violation of the Qur'anic commandment "You shall obey God, and you shall obey the prophet." When Abdullah 'Amr was "allowed to write hadith" in AH i as he became a Muslim, Rasulullah seems contradicting earlier Muslims do himself. not seem to have received this special treatment. of Qur'an had The claim that the completion superceded the earlier instruction is strange; no evidence is produced to the effect that Rasulullah had cancelled it! Believing that Rasulullah had perfectly understood Qur'an including verses 52:34. 7:185; 77:50, 45:6, 4:87, 39:23; 68:44, 56:81, 12:111, and 31:6 (all against hadith and none of the 36 references on hadith supports it), it is hard to believe that he had cancelled his instruction NOT TO WRITE IIADITH. Again the Prophet was disobeyed by not making unanimous and uncontested selection of KHULAFA UR RASHIDEEN whom the Prophet had supposedly identified and nominated, according to his hadith, "Follow my sunnah and the sunnah of AL KHULAFA AL RASHIDEEN after me." The selection of the first Khalifa was contested on the very morning Rasulullah had passed away, and this matter remains disasterously divisive until today: On the Day of Judgment, Rasulullah will complain my people had forsaken to Allah: "O my Lord; this Qur'an." (25:30) This means that he either Ignores_ or is ignorant of Sunnah/faditi. that he did not approve it is clear way. Sunnah/Hadith until his death or even after. If he had approved, as claimed by Hadith, then why should he shy away from defending it on the Day of Judgment?
From RABITAT, mar 1983 (PG.27.28) : stripie, i call: 18158 • 0101 isabel: with ye 3 I pail or We in Jo is for, its sil, des, Jitai we-ve Gil: with all 27 r Azami in his doctorate thesis on Hadith literature Studies in early Hadith literature records the following information: According to Ibn Hanbal, were sound, of which 7,000,000 traditions 6,000,000 were memorized by Abu Zur'ah" (Ibid Pg 301, 1978, American Trust Publications). If million sound hadiths were spread over 23 vears and the Prophet used 18 hours a day continually to disseminate these hadiths, he must done this at the rate of one hadith every 77 seconds! IN PRACTICAL TERMS, HE COULD NOT IIAVE DONE ANYTHING ELSE! Each compiler of hadith had collected hundrer: of thousands of hadiths from which only a smal: fraction was accepted; e.g. Bukhari found oni: 7397 hadiths (mere eliminated) as worth recording from 500,000 hadith: he had collected. This means that by this siancar. of quality control nearly 99% of them were rejecter: and the higher the rejection rate, the more genuin the selected hadiths were!!! Yet in all other matters. we go for the Kuffar QC standards which demanci the exact opposite: the lower the rejection rate. the better is the quality of the accepted items.!
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