TRUE BELIEVER
Imams who conduct services in mosques, muftis, and sectarian sheikhs do not figure in the Quran. Yet, the majority of the public at large has always identified these figures with religion and has seen them as representatives of the established…
IS PLURALITY THE ANSWER?
What was the driving force behind the wish to kill prophets for the sake of handmade idols, if not traditions? 170 – When they are told: “Follow what God has revealed,” they say, “No, we follow only the ways of…
SIMPLICITY
There are persons to whom we preach the Islam of the Quran who react to the wide divergence between it and the Islam of the sectarians by saying: “You are simplifying the religion. How can religion be so easy to…
KEYS TO COMPREHEND THE QURAN
Let us go over our basic principles related to the manner in which a subject must be conceived and interpreted according to the Quran: • The Quran is the only source of Islam. One should never forget that the Quran…
HADITHS AND SUNNA
In Chapter 2 of this book we saw that the Quran was a self-sufficient source for Islam and that there was no need for any additional source. In this chapter we shall be studying the way the hadiths were collected…
SUBJECTS OUTSIDE THE CONTEXT OF THE QURAN
We have been drawing your attention to an important point ever since the beginning of our book: the fact that the Quran gives the details of what God deems is necessary to be known by His servants. Whatever is believed…
NOT REFORM BUT RETURN TO THE QURAN
The primitiveness, the ugliness and the contradictions displayed in the name of Islam make it indispensable to clarify where we stand and what should be done to redirect people who have been diverted from the true path described in the…
RELIGION PROFESSED IN THE QURAN
What may be the deviations between the religious system actually practiced as Islam and the religion described in the Quran? In the coming chapters we shall be dealing in detail with the Islam propounded in the Quran and the Islam…
INTRODUCTION
Before proceeding any further, we must draw the attention of the reader to the fact that the word ‘religion’ as used in this book refers mainly to Islam, although it may now and then assume its general meaning in the…
