Logic Of Salfism
The same question can be asked about Imam Ghazali, Maulana Modudi and others, why didn’t anyone before them came to the kind of conclusions that those scholars reached about overall framework and objective of the religion? The main reason, as I see it, in the past it was too much focus and dependency on fiqh and in recent times, it is this unusual popularity and dependency on ahadith, specially among common people. People have become so sensitive about ahadith, they are not even ready to listen to anything from Quran that goes against Ahadith. The irony is that even Ahnaf scholars who actually don’t hold the same view on ahadith and their status as independent source of religion, express the same ahle-hadith point of view in front of common public fearing retaliation if they express otherwise. It’s been centuries since Quran has had been a focus of our studies. Ustad said on one occasion that he feels that Farahi school of thought would eventually become the religion of few, while ahle-hadith school of thought would become religion of common Muslims.