Letter to the Prophet Muhammad
This is a letter, which
was sent to us by one of our readers. We are publishing it as we
feel it gives an insight into what some people today may wish to
say to the prophet Muhammad.
Dear Messenger Of God,
Salamun Alaikum (Quran 6:54, 58:8)
Remember Prophet when you thought the following verse to us.
"The Prophet will say, "My Lord, indeed my people have gone away from this Quran" Surah 25:30.
Well indeed this verse has come true. By the twentieth century we have millions of people claim to be ulema (scholars) but they do not even know how many surahs there are in the Quran. Instead of teaching the message of Quran, they spend all their time teaching all kinds of junk like hadith, ijmak and qiyas.
Forgive me my dear prophet but I almost forgot that you do not know what I am talking about. I forgot that I must explain to you the meanings of all these things, which will be totally strange to you.
Well let me tell you about hadith
first. The ulema have created what they call "hadith".
The ulema s version of hadith is not what you taught us.
You revealed to us that the Quran itself is the best and only
hadith. You taught us, from your own mouth, that Quran is the
"ahsanul hadith" or the best hadith (Surah 39:22).
For those of us who doubted this you even challenged us which
other hadith, other than the Quran, would you believe in? (Surah
75:50)
Well, prophet the ulema have boldly
risen to answer your challenge. They have totally ignored the
Quran. They have written tons of what they call "
hadith" and you know what? They say all their hadith
actually comes from you!!. Can you imagine their temerity? These
people are real mercenaries when it comes to making tell tales.
There is a guy called Bukhari. You have never heard of him
because he was born about two hundred and fifty years after you.
Anyway this guy claims he went out all over the Middle East on
foot and on camelback (without any trains, cars or jumbo jets)
and dug up about 600,000 hadith from you.
He then threw out about 99.5% of what he dug up and kept about
6000 hadith or less.
He says these are your authentic hadith. Included in this
authentic hadith is a story that you had people eyes gouged out,
their tongues cut out and that you asked people to drink
camels urine. (Bukhari, vol. 7 hadith no. 590
He also says that you ordered your
men to burn the houses of those people who did not go to the
mosque to pray (Bukhari, vol. 1 hadith no. 626). He says you
prescribed strange medical cures like dipping dead flies into
your drink to fight germs.
The problem is the ulema have conned
many millions of simple and honest people into believing that
this is actually what you told them to do.
Excuse me? Did you ask why they wrote this false hadith? Well, the ulema feel that without their hadith, they will not be able to understand the meaning of your true teachings i.e. the Quran.
Excuse me? Did you ask me if I
believe this? No way. I dont buy this at all.
They have cooked up this mischievous story to mislead people from
your true teachings of the Quran. Yes, in other words this is a
plot by your enemies to keep the Muslims from the Quran.
Well there is also something else they have created. After they wrote their hadith, they went ahead and created something called ijmak or consensus of the scholars. The ijmak captured things they forgot to write in the hadith.
For example you only taught us
prayers from the Quran (Surah 11:114) which gives us three names
of these prayers (Surah 24:58, 2:2). But the ulema went ahead and
created their own prayers. The strange thing is that these five
prayers cannot even be found in their hadith. So they went ahead
and made an ijmak about it. Excuse me? Did you ask me who are
these scholars who are brave enough to make this ijmak? To be
very frank, my dear Prophet, I dont know.
And neither do the scholars themselves know. It is usually some
Abu or some Ibnu but no one really knows for sure who these
scholars are or what were their qualifications. What I do know is
that for every ijmak made by any one scholar, there is at least
one equal and opposite ijmak put forward by another scholar. To
maintain their sanity, these scholars made another ijmak which
said that is OK to have different ijmak. People belonging to
different ijmaks started calling themselves madhabs.
Today the ulema have divided
themselves into many madhabs like ahlul sunnah, Shiite, Wahhabi,
hanafi, maliki and shafie madhab.
Recently one man said that you yourself belonged to the shafie madhab! Other scholars insist that you were an ahlul Sunnah madhab.
Excuse me? Did you ask me what is a madhab? Well, a madhab is a group of people who share ijmak and qiyas (Ill explain qiyas later) that are similar. For example those who say that you can marry your own illegitimate daughter belong to the shafie madhab. Those who say you can have contractual intercourse with women for one hour or a period of two weeks belong to the Shiite madhab.
Excuse me? Did you ask who is Shafie? I dont know. Apparently he is one of the scholars who was good at making ijmak.
Excuse me? Yes they say that all these things are derived from what you did. Please try not to be angry.
Their ignorance of the Quran is
complete and done on purpose. There is a famous Sufi professor
who runs a famous institute of Islamic thought who says quite
proudly that the Quran is not his field of specialization. If you
talk to him about the Quran he says, "go and ask the hafiz
or the Quran scholars". His field is something called
tassawuf which I am sure you will never understand because
you never taught to us. Tasawwuf ulema claim "out of body
experiences to have a union with God. The call this
"fana". If they are on drugs (and some of them were)
then they claim "out of this world experiences" which
they call "fana al fana". They claim to actually
be with God.
You taught us, from your own mouth, that the Quran is the
"ahsanul hadith" or the best hadith.
Qiyas is something else which will be totally strange to you. But
you are not alone. It is totally strange to me too. Qiyas means
analogy. The ulema themselves are still arguing which qiyas or
whose qiyas are acceptable, arguable etc. etc. It is a real mess
there. Unfortunately some of the so-called Islamic law fabricated
by the ulema runs on qiyas. Some ulema say if you reject qiyas,
you reject faith. Others say since we do not know which qiyas are
correct it is not part of faith.
But with the ijmak it is otherwise.
If you reject their ijmak, then they say you are a disbeliever.
This then my dear Prophet is the pathetic state of affairs of the
people who claim to be following in your footsteps.
But please do not despair. Despite
the millions who have been betrayed by the ulema there are an
increasing number who are reading the Quran, which you brought to
us. They are trying their best to be true believers in the
message, which you have safely delivered to us in the form of the
holy Quran.
Do not despair my dear Prophet. It is you who told us that "
the truth will prevail"
(Surah 17:81).
We have absolute faith in what you
taught us. Indeed the truth will always prevail. And damned will
be the schemes of the betrayers.