{"_id":"674b095de1a26c902b106e0a","title":"{\"ops\":[{\"attributes\":{\"color\":\"#000000\",\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"How should we engage with \\\"Quranists\\\"?\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\"}]}","question":"{\"ops\":[{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\",\"color\":\"#000000\"},\"insert\":\"I am noticing an uptick in people with \\\"Quranist\\\" views who dispute the authenticity of hadith. How should we engage in conversation with people of this belief?\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\"}]}","answer":"{\"ops\":[{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"It's regrettable that these deviations persist, yet this particular ideology was prophesied by our beloved Prophet ﷺ in an authenticated hadith in Sunan Abi Dawud. The Prophet (ﷺ) said: \"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\",\"italic\":true},\"insert\":\"\\\"Beware! I have been given the Qur'an and something like it, yet the time is coming when a man replete on his couch will say: Keep to the Qur'an; what you find in it to be permissible treat as permissible, and what you find in it to be prohibited treat as prohibited.\\\"\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"This notion emerged initially during the era of Imam al-Shafi, then waned, only to resurface around the 10th century AH. Subsequently, it faded again and reappeared in India during the 19th century AD. Among Muslim scholars, there is unanimous consensus that rejecting the authority of the prophetic Sunnah constitutes an act of apostasy.\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"In terms of engagement, I strongly discourage debates as they seldom yield fruit. However, for individuals swayed by these notions, highlighting the inherent contradictions in their ideology can be pivotal. \"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"If we accept the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ as a truthful and flawless Messenger, then we must embrace everything he conveyed, including the Sunnah. Conversely, rejecting his infallibility raises doubts about his message, including the Quran. Quranists believe the Prophet ﷺ was fallible and compelled by Shaitan multiple times. This belief in an untrustworthy Messenger while accepting his message is inherently contradictory.\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"Moreover, their belief contradicts the Quran itself, which affirms the Messenger's infallibility:\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\",\"bold\":true},\"insert\":\"\\\"Your companion is not lost, nor off in direction. Nor does he speak from mere impulse. Naught it is but a divine inspiration being inspired.\\\" [\"},{\"attributes\":{\"link\":\"https://quran.com/53/2-4\",\"background\":\"transparent\",\"bold\":true},\"insert\":\"53:2-4\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\",\"bold\":true},\"insert\":\"]\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"And the Quran commands us to accept everything the Messenger ﷺ has brought:\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\",\"bold\":true},\"insert\":\"\\\"And whatever the Messenger brings you, accept; and whatever he forbids you, forgo.\\\" [\"},{\"attributes\":{\"link\":\"https://quran.com/59/7\",\"background\":\"transparent\",\"bold\":true},\"insert\":\"59:7\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\",\"bold\":true},\"insert\":\"]\"},{\"attributes\":{\"list\":\"bullet\"},\"insert\":\"\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\",\"bold\":true},\"insert\":\"\\\"Say, 'Obey Allah and obey the Messenger.'\\\" [\"},{\"attributes\":{\"link\":\"https://quran.com/24/54\",\"background\":\"transparent\",\"bold\":true},\"insert\":\"24:54\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\",\"bold\":true},\"insert\":\"]\"},{\"attributes\":{\"list\":\"bullet\"},\"insert\":\"\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\",\"bold\":true},\"insert\":\"\\\"Say, 'If you love Allah, then faithfully follow me, and Allah will greatly love you, and forgive your sins, and Allah is all-forgiving, all-compassionate.'\\\" [\"},{\"attributes\":{\"link\":\"https://quran.com/3/30\",\"background\":\"transparent\",\"bold\":true},\"insert\":\"3:30\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\",\"bold\":true},\"insert\":\"]\"},{\"attributes\":{\"list\":\"bullet\"},\"insert\":\"\\n\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"The Quran highlights that the Messenger's role is to elucidate and clarify the message, embodied in the Sunnah. Without it, we possess the Quranic text without explanation.\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\",\"bold\":true},\"insert\":\"\\\"We sent no messenger except in the tongue of his people to clarify the message for them.\\\" [\"},{\"attributes\":{\"link\":\"https://quran.com/14/4\",\"background\":\"transparent\",\"bold\":true},\"insert\":\"14:4\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\",\"bold\":true},\"insert\":\"]\"},{\"attributes\":{\"list\":\"bullet\"},\"insert\":\"\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\",\"bold\":true},\"insert\":\"\\\"Nor have we sent down the Book to you save that you may clarify to them what they differ about, and as a mighty guidance and mercy for a people who believe.\\\" [\"},{\"attributes\":{\"link\":\"https://quran.com/16/64\",\"background\":\"transparent\",\"bold\":true},\"insert\":\"16:64\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\",\"bold\":true},\"insert\":\"]\"},{\"attributes\":{\"list\":\"bullet\"},\"insert\":\"\\n\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\"},{\"attributes\":{\"background\":\"transparent\"},\"insert\":\"The Quranist ideology is fraught with contradictions, glaringly evident to anyone approaching it rationally and objectively.\"},{\"insert\":\"\\n\"}]}","tags":[{"_id":"668d9ff70b76658b4c232a80","tag":"Seerah: Sunnah and Hadith","count":68},{"_id":"668d9fe50b76658b4c232867","tag":"Aqeedah: Sects and Religions","count":68},{"_id":"668d9fef0b76658b4c232988","tag":"Quran: Other","count":56}],"createdOn":"2024-11-30T12:47:25.777Z"}