ATTITUDE OF THE FOUR CALIPHS TOWARD THE HADITHS
Those who have acknowledged the existence of books other than the Quran as sources for Islam in the belief that the Quran was not self-sufficient, and who have tried to understand Islam basing this on the hadiths, think that the…
SOME PROMINENT HADITH FABRICATORS
If the hadiths were to be a source of Islam like the Quran, the Prophet would have asked his companions to copy and learn them by heart. Yet, he prohibited their copying, let alone ordering them to be copied as…
PSEUDO-RELIGION UNDER THE OMAYYADS AND ABBASIDS
The Islam preached today is unfortunately the religion whose foundations had been laid under the Omayyads and the Abbasids. This Islam is not based on the Quran, but is the Islam that does not consider the Quran a self-sufficient book,…
SECTS
Once the Quran came to be deemed not self-sufficient and the need was felt to supplement it with hadiths and ijtihads, the rise of numerous sects was inevitable. The four sects prevalent today of the Sunni and Shii sects have…
RELIGIOUS ORDERS
Despite the great number of orders (tarikats), each widely differing from the other, and altogether apart from the Quran’s teaching, for lack of space, we shall dwell on the worship of sheikhs and certain incontestable truths common to most of…
THE CONCEPT OF SUNNA
Sunna as a word has the meanings of style, method, way, and behavior. It has also the connotation of the customs and traditions of a community. Although the word usually refers to the acts and sayings of the Prophet, it…
ARAB NATIONALISM
Honesty, good morals, diligence in the practice of religious rituals, frequent reciting of God’s name are the essential sunnas indicated in the Quran. Turbans, wearing robes with long sleeves and skirts, growing beards, eating with the right hand and seated…
ANIMOSITY TOWARD THE ARTS, MUSIC AND CHESS
The entire universe is a product of God’s art. God manifests His art and power in the movements of the earth, in the rain, in the twittering of a bird and in the color of a violet, in a piece…
EATING ACCORDING TO THE QURAN AND ACCORDING TO SECTS
The food prohibited to consume is explicitly indicated in the Quran. 115 – He only prohibits for you dead animals, blood, the meat of pigs and that which is dedicated to other than God. But if one is driven by…
SO-CALLED APOCALYPTIC SIGNS: SECOND COMING, MAHDIS
MAHDI AND THE ANTICHRIST It is believed that this figure is about to appear near the end of the world to wipe out the enemies and become the Lord of the world and to later join Christ to defeat the…
