Is Islam the Result of Qur'an and Sunnah?Dear Dr. Muhammed Amrani,
Salam 'alaikum wa rahmatullah wa barakatu.
My name is Natalia and I'm a newly converted muslima from Spain. I said the Shahada the last October 2004. I was previously a christian but never agreed with the Catholic Church so I started to look for the good path, discover Islam and then change my religion.
At first I was convinced that Islam is the result of Qur'an and Sunna but now i'm thinking about letting the Sunna behind.
The reasons why are these ones:
- The Quran is a complete book, See Quran 6:19,38,114, 115, 12:111 and 50:45. Remember that when God says that His book is complete, it means 100% complete.
- The Quran is perfect; no mistakes, no falsehood, no nonsense. See Quran 41:42,12:40, 30:30, 30:43 and 98:5
- The Quran is detailed, and when God says He detailed His book it means FULLY detailed. God does not do half jobs. See Quran 6:114, 7:52, 11:1, 41:3, 10:37 and 12:111
- God does not need any addition to His book. God teaches us in the Quran that He does not run out of words and that if He so willed He could have given us hundreds, thousands or millions of books besides the Quran (see Quran 18:109). Since the Quran is complete, perfect and fully detailed, God did not give us any more books.
- God calls His book, the Quran, the BEST HADITH. HE called on His true believers to accept no other hadiths as a source of this perfect religion. See Quran 7:185, 31:6, 39:23, 45:6, and 77:50.
- God calls on His true believers to make sure not to fall in the trap of idol-worship by following the words of the scholars instead of the words of God. See Quran 9:31
- God calls those who prohibit what He did not prohibit, aggressors, liars and idol-worshipers. Idol-worship is the only unforgivable sin, if maintained till death. See Quran 5:87, 9:37, 7:32, 6:119, 6:140 and 10:59.
- Muhammed is represented only by the Quran. The Prophet Muhammed was the last Prophet and a messenger of God (See Quran 33:40). He was not the messenger of God because of who he (Muhammed) was, but because he was given the Quran (the message) to deliver to the world. The religion of Islam is a religion of God, not about Muhammed, who was blessed by God with the delivery of the message of the Quran. He did not have an agenda of his own. His job was to deliver to the world what God was giving him, the Quran. See Quran 42:48, 13:40, 5:99-100 Muhammed cannot prohibit things, or make lawful things on his own. When he tried to do that God admonished him publicly, see Quran 66:1
That's why now I have problems to believe in Sunna since there are lots of the scholars who claim different things and contradicts each other.
But I trust you. I have seen your Biography references so maybe you can give me reasons to still follow Sunna.
But then...Which Sunna? How can we trust in a man-made science called the Science of Hadith? Hadith has allowed stonning to death for adultery criminals when the Qur'an just says 100 lashes (See Quran 24:02). Hadith has allowed to kill apostates when God says there's no compulsion in religion.
And I have more questions relating to divorce. If the spouses get divorced, who has the custody of the children? Is the head-scarf for women ordained by Allah? Has the husband the right to beat his wife at some point?
About these questions I've read from this related links:
http://www.free-minds.org/women/beating.htm
http://www.free-minds.org/women/scarf.htm
Still, I would like to know your opinion and I will apreciate it very much.
Thank you for your attention dear Dr. Amrani and I hope to receive your responses as soon as Allah wishes.
May Allah bless you.
Your sister in Islam,
Natalia.
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