Al-kitaab 62:2 Being Shariah And Sunnah Coming From It
السلام عليكم There is no second source of religion, there is only one: the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم. Ahmad, almost everything you said assumes the Quran to be the book of God when it is not. It is the last book of God. It assumes (quite rightfully, of course) that its audience is already aware of the background. It still states that the purpose of the divine writs is to resolve disputes between people (and not to originate religion). That is also why these divine writs are described by the word الميزان. Furthermore, the Quran still says اتبعوا ملة ابراهيم حنيفا. This ملة ابراهيم is what we call Sunnah. You are right, Salah and Hajj have been this way from the time of Ibrahim عليه السلام. But ملة ابراهيم is to incorporate in Salah whatever God has revealed to be incorported in Salah. For this ummah, God has enjoined the incorporation of the فاتحة الكتاب and the Quran and so we recite them according to the injunctions of God. However, the main issue is considering the Quran to be the source of religion. It is not. The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is. I tried to prove that in your other post (hopefully to some success 😆). Read the Quran and ponder over its style and you will find out that the Quran is not here to teach you religion (as in from the get go). It will not start with: to be a Muslim, you have to declare that you witness that لا اله الله ومحمد الرسول الله and then you have to pray Salah and these are the 5 times of prayers and you can get how to offer them through the messenger we sent to you, contact him for further information and then there is Zakah…معاذ الله. It doesn’t go like that at all. It is not here to give you religion, it is here to settle the matters in which people dispute. Doing that, it reinstates a lot of things to show people what the foundations of religion were and to teach us how to use them to extract guidelines for life. I don’t know whether you’ve seen this video or not but, in my opinion, it is a must watch for every student of religion (the first 30 minutes or so in which Ghamidi Sahab explains that the Quran does not begin the enjoining of anything that is part of the Sunnah): https://youtu.be/ojJkEdaJCiE Check it out and do let me know what you think.