The root cause of evils in our society like; religious intolerance, extremism, social, moral, economic, political misconduct, polytheistic rituals and many other problems is due to the abandonment of Qur'an. Bad practices are spreading rapidly in our society without any check. The Ulema (religious scholars) instead of playing their pivotal role against these evil practices have become a part of the problem rather than the solution.
Social media has provided a good facility for everyone to express and promote their views, unfortunately this facility is being used to criticize and ridicule other Muslims negatively. The limited knowledge rather lack of knoledge of religion (Islam) has furtheer aggravated the situation. There is a reason for further deterioration - It appears that everyone is engaged in defending their own sect and ridiculing others and considering it to be a service to Islam. In this regard, hadiths are used indiscriminately, without context, research and classifications of authenticity.
There are seventy five (75) Hadith books, containing around twenty-five thousand to forty thousand Hadiths, a large number with varying classifications which not everyone can comprehend easily. After the Qur'an, Sunnah is the most authentic and safe, due care is exercised in their use due to the possibility of being caught immediately and severe reactions by people. Sunnah and Hadith are not synonymous; they are different. A narrative of the words, deeds or tacit approvals of the Prophet (sws) is called Hadith. It does not add anything to the content of Islam stated in the Qur’anand Sunnah, the two original sources of Islam. Ahadith (plural of Hadith) only explain and elucidate what is contained in these two sources and also describe the exemplary way in which the Prophet (sws) followed Islam. The scholars of Hadith Employ the term, khabr for Hadith. A khabr bears the possibility of being either right or wrong. In other words, the scholars of Hadith Believe that a khabr may be true or it may be false. For this very reason, Ahadith are also called dhanni (presumptive or indefinite).
The second issue related to problems is sectarianism which has caused a lot of damage to the Muslim Ummah which continues unabated. The basis of fitnah (disorder,corruption) and terrorism is sectarianism, the scholars can play an effective role in reducing this menace.
The misguided, mischievious people not only use naive Muslim youth to fuel for hatred, but they also use them as soldiers of terrorism by mixing their evil ideologies with religious texts to confuse and corrupt theri minds intellectually. They create sectarianism in an imperceptible way by creating intellectual confusion. He gains economic, political, and other benefits by becoming the savior of the simple Muslim majority as their religious leader. The Muslim youth which is beyond their physical reach is mentally enslaved to propagate at social media to get financial help, public sympathy and support. Some are recruited for their terrorist activities under garb of Jihad.
How can scholars be excluded, when the whole society is in a state of decay and turmoil? It is the duty of the Ulema-e-Haqq to play their positive role in elevating the religious, moral, social and economic progression of society and themselves. The Qur'an provides examples of Jewish and Christian scholars for our guidance and the lessons, that their scholars developed tendencies to prefer their own opinion over the Book of God and the teachings of the prophets hence misguided and ruined their followers. The Jewish scholars preferred Talmud (writings of scholars) over Torah (the Divine Book). Muslims scholars adopted a similar path, which was the apprehension of the Rightly Guided Caliphs when they forbade writing any other book besides Book of Allah (Quran). The selfish desires overtook and after first century of Islam, scholars overruled the Sunnah (practice) and direction of Rightly Guided Caliphs by writing other books (intentions are always claimed to be good but the blatant violation is mind boggling). Besides many apparent benifits, it also opened the floodgates of sectarianism and division of Muslim Ummah. This is the curse of Allah for violating the good practices and adopting forbidden practices.
It is the obligation of the government, the religious authorities (Ulema), the intellectuals and every Muslim to curb the extremism and ignorance in a peaceful manner with the help of the Qur'an and Sunnah (practices) of Prophet (pbuh) and Rightly Guided Caliphs. It is well known that Quran commands the Mulsims to preach (Dawah) good practices and forbid evils.
The purpose of this research is to create awareness through the undeniable facts from history and sacred text. The mindset that has been established for centuries cannot be changed overnight but our duty is to reveal the truth and make endeavours intellectually. The guidance is in the hands of Allah alone. He provides guidance and whoever deliberately goes astray by his own choice, Allah leaves him in the wilderness of ignorance and path of destruction leading to hellfire. There is no compulsion in religion, no one has been appointed as the guardian of faith over others. Our duty is only to proclaim the truth from the Qur'an and Sunnah of the Prophet (peace be upon him).:
God wishes to explain things to you and guide you to the ways of those who have gone before you and to turn to you in mercy. God is all knowing and all wise. He wishes to turn towards you in mercy, but those who follow their own passions want you to drift far away from the right path. God wishes to lighten your burdens, for, man has been created weak. (Quran;4:26-28)
Those who follow these selfish desires of their passions refer to all kinds of people who put the customs and traditions of their forefathers over the guidance provided by Allah, through His Last Book (Quran), Practices of Prophet (pbuh), Rightly Guided Caliphs and Companions. There are all types of people whether they are Jews, Christians, hypocrites or other polytheists. God Almighty has revealed innumerable commands for the eradication of social evils which most people disliked to follow.
In this way, those ignorant people were obstructing the work of reform which was being carried out under the divine commandments at that time. On the other hand, there were the Jews who, over the centuries, had put a heavy shell of their self-made rules and regulations on the original divine law. There were numerous restrictions and unnecessary customs that they added to their religious Law (Shari'a). Most of the permissible (halal) things they had forbidden. There were many illusions and delusions that he had incorporated into the law of God.۔
It was against the mindset and temperament of the scholars and the people that they could recognize the value of the straightforward Shari'ah that the Qur'an was presenting. They were agitated to hear the command and rules provided by the Qur'an. There would be numerous objections to each and every teaching. They demanded that either the Qur'an declare all the ijtihads of their jurists and all the superstitions and superstitions of their predecessors as divine law, otherwise it is not a divine book at all.
The Quran (4:26-28) refers to the hypocrites and the orthodox Jews of Medina, who were deeply disgusted with the reforms that were being carried out against centuries-old prejudices and customs in civilization and society. Today Islam is also challenged by the kind of situation that needs to be remedied.
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