IMPORTANCE OF SUNNAH IN ISLAM
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All the praises and thanks be
to ALLAH, the most gracious, the most merciful. May ALLAH guide us to the
straightway and Mohammed (peace be upon him) the last Prophet of Allah and we
are his followers. The Sunnah is the second source of Islamic beliefs and laws,
the first being The Quran. The Sunnah is an explanation or interpretation of
the Quran. It has been ordered by the Quran to follow the Sunnah of the Prophet
Mohammed (peace be upon him) and it is obligatory to carry out the instruction given
in the Sunnah, the Holy Quran say:
وَمَا آتَاكُمُ الرَّسُولُ
فَخُذُوهُ وَمَا نَهَاكُمْ عَنْهُ فَانتَهُوا وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ شَدِيدُ
الْعِقَابِ
(Surah Al Hashr: 59:7)
The Messenger (Mohammed peace
be upon him) has given you, take it; and what so ever he forbidden you, refrain
(from it). and fear ALLAH; verily. ALLAH is severe in punishment.
The definition of Sunnah:
In dictionary: Habit, Way.
Translation: "Sunnah is the Prophet's saying, his
deeds and what his followers did, to which he showed no objection." (Kitab Al Tarifat: page no.195)
Necessity of Sunnah to understand
by The Quran:
Sunnah is very necessary to
understand the Holy Quran. We must learn the Sunnah because the Sunnah is an
explanation to the Holy Quran. (Sanabil 2010-11 Page No.10) as ALLAH says:
وَالسَّارِقُ وَالسَّارِقَةُ
فَاقْطَعُواْ أَيْدِيَهُمَا جَزَاء بِمَا كَسَبَا نَكَالاً مِّنَ اللَّهِ وَاللَّهُ
عَزِيزٌ حَكِيمٌ
(Surah Al Maidah: 5: 38)
The male thief and the female
thief cut off (from the wrist joint) their (right) hands.
The oral tradition explains
the first of them and restricts it by "As-Sareq" (the thief) who
steals something worth a fourth of dinar according to the saying of the Prophet
(peace be upon him) there is no cutting of the hand, unless the thing stolen is
worth a fourth of dinar or Morse. (Bukhari Hadeeth
No-6789/ Muslim Hadeeth No.1684). There are many verses that cannot be
completely understood except through Sunnah.
They are:
الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ وَلَمْ
يَلْبِسُواْ إِيمَانَهُم بِظُلْمٍ أُوْلَئِكَ لَهُمُ الأَمْنُ وَهُم مُّهْتَدُونَ
(Surah Al Anam: 6: 83)
It is whose who believe and confuse not their beliefs with wrong.
"Dhulm" that are (truly) in security for they are on (right) guidance.
The companions of the Prophet
(peace be upon him) understood the word "Dhulm" in its general sense
to mean every wrong doing. Even if it be a little. On this account the verse is
regarded as dubious and they said: O Messenger of ALLAH, which of us did not
involve his faith with obscurity? “He (peace be upon him) said, it is not that.
It is only the "Shirk".
The Deviation of those who are
satisfied with the Quran to the exclusion of Hadeeth:
It is a matter of regret that
one renowned scholar has written a book on Islamic law and its dogma, and in
its preface, He says that he has written it and that he has made reference only
to the Quran.
This true Hadeeth gives
positive evidence that divine law of Islam-as- Sharia-, is not merely Quran but
Quran and Sunnah.
Therefore, whoever holds fast to one source for reference
to the exclusion of the other. He held fast to neither of them. Since both complement
each other. The Quran says whoever obeys the
Obeys ALLAH, ALLAH says:
فَلاَ وَرَبِّكَ لاَ يُؤْمِنُونَ
حَتَّىَ يُحَكِّمُوكَ فِيمَا شَجَرَ بَيْنَهُمْ۔۔۔
(Sura Al Nisa 4:65)
I did not find what you have
said "He told her: If you have read it, you would have found it. As for
your reading what the messenger teaches you take it and what he forbids you
avoid to doing it." She said: certainly. He said: I have heard the
Messenger of ALLAH (peace be upon him) Say, May ALLAH'S curse be on the
al-namisat."
(Bukhari Hadith no.5931/ Muslim Hadith
No.2125).
In the last I pray to ALLAH to
give us ability and capacity to understand and perform everything according to
the Quran and Hadeeth.
(Aamin)
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