THE CONCEPT OF SUNNA
FAREWELL SERMON
The fabricated religion serves the atheists better. By giving it an aspect of chaos, they are pleased to see masses of people prefer to avoid religion. The main objective of this book has been to draw the attention of these people to the religion as offered in the Quran and to try to clear off all alien elements introduced in the course of ages under the guise of hadiths. Of these hadiths the Farewell Sermon of the Prophet is the best known. Yet, the same speech is transmitted in different versions. If one considers that a sermon attended by one hundred persons is reported differently, one should justifiably suspect the authenticity of other hadiths.
1- I entrust something to you:it is God’s Book; it is God’s rope stretched down to earth. Hold on to it and you’ll never swerve.
2- I entrust two things to you: God’s Book and my sunna.
3- I entrust two things to you: God’s Book and my household.
Two of these three hadiths are ostensibly not authentic. The Sunnis acknowledge the authenticity of the second version and the Shiites the third. It is the first one that is most likely the authentic one in terms of meaning. The only Islam is the Islam stated in the Quran, as we have never tired of repeating. We must not look in the Quran for a religion of our own imagination. Why is there this concern for a religion that God has not revealed? Let us not be the slaves of our customs and traditions. Let us keep away from sheikhs and the passion for being a disciple of sheikhs.
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PAGE 2: ARAB CUSTOMS CONSIDERED TO BE SUNNA
PAGE 4: THE QURAN ALSO INCLUDES THE SUNNA
ARAB NATIONALISM
