How Is It Possible That The Law Of Inheritance Was Misunderstood For 1400 Years?
But Sir this is not a simple case of someone misunderstanding something by chance, this is something that the whole Muslim Ummah has had ijma on for the last 1400 years, mentioned by our earlier exegetes, and the Prophet would have obviously known the right interpretation, and must’ve taught it to all his followers, especially his closest and longest companions who learned directly from him for so many years (including Caliph Umar), how is it possible that the right interpretation just got lost somehow? And that the whole Ijma of all the jurists and the common masses was based on an error made by chance? This simply means that the way Ghamidi Sb has interpreted the law, this understanding simply wasn’t prevalent in the earliest times, neither did Caliph Umar know it according to that tradition. So why isn’t it traced back to the Prophet’s Sunnah with which he established the whole religion? How is the Ijma and tawattur of the Ummah on an issue as central as this (people die everyday so this is a very important law even in modern constitutions) based on an error made by chance? Where did the correct understanding disappear? Why has it been rediscovered after more than a millennia? This doesn’t answer any of my questions and poses so many more questions? How many other things have been based on mistakes then? How do we know other things based on Ijma and tawattur aren’t continuities of some errors made earlier? From the issue of recitation to the application of every other law in Shariah, how do we that Ijma and tawattur is right in every other case if the correct understanding of the inheritance law (if it was there in the earlier times) just completely disappeared and consensus was reached on a supposed error and a mistaken way of thinking? Couldn’t the early jurists or linguists simply tell it apart based on a closer reading and understanding of the usloob and wordings of the Ayas? @Irfan76 @UmerQureshi