Quran only to be followed

Quran and Prophet Mohammad (SAS) are to be obeyed for islamic Unity

A Presentation by

Dr Sanjan Hazarika

Professor and Head, Physics Department

Jorhat Engineering College

Assam, India

The Quran repeatedly orders to follow and obey it and follow prophet Mohammad(SAS)

• [004:080] He who obeys the Messenger (Muhammad [sal-Allâhu 'alayhi wa sallam]), has indeed obeyed Allâh, but he who turns away, then We have not sent you (O Muhammad [sal-Allâhu 'alayhi wa sallam]) as a watcher over them.

• [004:081] They say: "We are obedient," but when they leave you (Muhammad [sal-Allâhu 'alayhi wa sallam]), a section of them spends all night in planning other than what you say. But Allâh records their nightly (plots). So turn aside from them (do not punish them), and put your trust in Allâh. And Allâh is Ever All-Sufficient as a Disposer of affairs.

• [004:082] Do they not then consider the Qur'ân carefully? Had it been from other than Allâh, they would surely have found therein many a contradiction.

• [003:031] Say: "If you love God then follow me that God may love you and forgive your faults; for God is forgiving and kind."

• [003:032] Say: "Obey God and His Messenger;" and if they refuse (then remember) God does not love disbelievers.

• [058:020] Those who oppose Allâh and His Messenger (Muhammad [sal-Allâhu 'alayhi wa sallam]), they will be among the lowest (most humiliated).

• It is obligatory for us as muslims to follow the Quran and the prophet.

• One of the five pillars of Islam, the shahada “ La Ilaha Illa Allahu Muhammadur Rasullullah” also mean that, it is the prophet Muhammad(SAS) through whom Allah guides people through his revelations. If anybody among human being is to be obeyed, he is the Prophet Mohammad(SAS)

• The prophet repeatedly asked to follow the Quran and his Sunnah. Because the prophet did not say anything from himself. Whatever he said was from the Quran.

• Allah ordered him:• Say (O Muhammad [sal-Allâhu 'alayhi wa

sallam]): "I don't tell you that with me are the treasures of Allâh, nor (that) I know the Unseen; nor do I tell you that I am an angel. I but follow what is revealed to me." Say: "Are the blind and the one who sees equal? Will you not then take thought?" [006:050]

Say (O Muhammad [sal-Allâhu 'alayhi wa sallam]): "I am not a new thing among the Messengers (of Allâh, i.e. I am not the first Messenger) nor do I know what will be done with me or with you. I only follow that which is revealed to me, and I am but a plain warner. [046:009]

• The Prophet(SAS) in his prophetic period(23 years) of his life received revelations from Allah, to guide mankind and establish peace among people. Which he diid successfully.

• He always insisted that if we follow the Quran and his sunna we shall never be lead astray. In the sermon of his farewel Hajj also he clearly mentioned this.

• For centuries we are following a tradition that the Quran can not be understood. It is an uncreated book.

• We should recite the Quran in Arabic, only then we get the benefit of reciting the Quran( God’s book)

• Rational thinking is totally abolished. Instead of interpreting the objective of the Quran we are mostly concentrating on the traditions.

• Sometimes through the behaviour of a section of learned men it becomes almost apparent that the traditions are more important than the Quran.

• Let us take an example,• The owner of a factory having a number employees

had to leave the factory for a few years. So he prepared a set of instructions as guidance, which the employees have to follow during his absence.

• After his departure the employees without trying to understand and without obeying the instructions started reciting the instructions morning and evening by shaking the body right to left or forward and backward. During this time the conditions remained the same, no development, no change.

• When the owner returned after the few years the employees demanded their reward for reciting the instructions morning and evening. Can you imagine the reaction of the owner?

Warn those who fear, through this (Qur'an), that they will be gathered before their Lord, and they will have none to protect or intercede for them apart from Him. They may

haply take heed for themselves. [006:051]

Will not Allah ask them about the Quran? Why they did not try to understand and followed the guidance of Quran. Instead of obeying It and following its guidance, why they interpreted the ayas of the Quran for their own benefit.

Is the present unrest in the muslim world in the name of religion, according to the guidance of Quran?

Is the oppression of women is according to the Quran? Why are we keeping silent?

Why should some people decide whom to punish and whom to kill. Are they following the right path? The path prescribed by Allah through the Quran?

Let us see some ayas of the Quran what it say about such actions

[007:034] And every nation has its appointed term; when their term comes, neither can they delay it nor can they advance it an hour (or a moment).

[015:004] And never did We destroy a township but there was a known decree for it.

[015:005] No nation can advance its term, nor delay it.

[016:125] Invite (mankind, O Muhammad [sal-Allâhu 'alayhi wa sallam]) to the way of your Lord (i.e. Islâm) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Revelation and the Qur'ân) and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His path, and He is the Best Knower of those who are guided.

[016:126] And if you punish (your enemy, O you believers in the Oneness of Allâh), then punish them with the like of that with which you were afflicted. But if you endure patiently, verily, it is better for As-Sâbirûn (the patient).

• [042:039] And those who, when an oppressive wrong is done to them, take revenge.

•  • [042:040] The recompense for an evil is an evil like thereof; but

whoever forgives and makes reconciliation, his reward is with Allâh. Verily, He likes not the Zâlimûn (oppressors, polytheists, and wrong doers).

•  • [042:041] And indeed whosoever takes revenge after he has

suffered wrong, for such there is no way (of blame) against them.•  • [042:042] The way (of blame) is only against those who oppress

men and rebel in the earth without justification; for such there will be a painful torment.

•  • [042:043] And verily, whosoever shows patience and forgives, that

would truly be from the things recommended by Allâh.

• If you have accepted Islam why don’t you wait for His judgement. If you have really submitted to God then why don’t you follow his guidance.

• When what God intends to speak is quite clear why do you pretend that you don’t understand it. Why do you say that it can’t be understood.

• Those who say the Quran can not be understood, they indirectly mean that the Prophet was a lier. He gave us a book(the Quran) and asked us to follow it , but the book is such that nobody understands it. It is repeatedly mentioned in the Quran that it is book of guidance for mankind, it is presented in such a way that it becomes easy to understand.

• A few quotations are as follows: A single quotation from the Quran does not express the complete meaning. It was reveled over a period of 20 years. Earlier verses were replaced by better verses of revelations at a later time.

• [012:002] Verily, We have sent it down as an Arabic Qur'ân in order that you may understand.

• 043:003] Verily, We have made it a Qur'ân in Arabic that you may be able to understand (its meanings and its admonitions).

•  • [043:004] And verily, it (this Qur'ân) is in the Mother of the Book (i.e.

Al-Lauh Al-Mahfûz) with Us, indeed exalted, full of wisdom.•  • [012:003] We relate to you (Muhammad [sal-Allâhu 'alayhi wa

sallam]) the best of stories through Our Revelations to you, of this Qur'ân. And before this (i.e. before the coming of Divine Revelation to you), you were among those who knew nothing about it (the Qur'ân).

• [003:138] This (the Qur'ân) is a plain statement for mankind, a guidance and instruction to those who are Al-Muttaqûn (the pious. See V.2:2).

• [054:017] And We have indeed made the Qur'ân easy to understand and remember; then is there anyone who will remember (or receive admonition)?

• [012:002] Verily, We have sent it down as an Arabic Qur'ân in order that you may understand.

• [041:002] A revelation from (Allâh) the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

• [041:003] A Book whereof the Verses are explained in detail – a Qur'ân in Arabic for a people who know.

• [020:113] And thus We have sent it down as a Qur'ân in Arabic, and have explained therein in detail the warnings, in order that they may fear Allâh, or that it may cause them to have a lesson from it (or to have the honour for believing and acting on its teachings).

• [039:027] And indeed We have put forth for men, in this Qur'ân every kind of similitude in order that they may remember.

• [039:028] An Arabic Qur'ân, without any crookedness (therein) in order that they may avoid all evil which Allâh has ordered them to avoid, fear Him and keep their duty to Him.

[041:046] Whosoever does righteous good deed, it is for (the benefit of) his own self; and whosoever does evil, it is against his own self. And

your Lord is not at all unjust to (His) slaves.

• [031:006] And of mankind is he who purchases idle talks to mislead (men) from the path of Allâh without knowledge, and takes it (the path of Allâh, or the Verses of the Qur'ân) by way of mockery. For such there will be a humiliating torment (in the Hell-fire).

• [031:007] And when Our Verses (of the Qur'ân) are recited to such a one, he turns away in pride, as if he heard them not – as if there were deafness in his ear. So announce to him a painful torment.

• [002.002] This is the Book (the Qur'ân), whereof there is no doubt, a guidance to those who are Al-Muttaqûn [the pious believers of Islamic Monotheism who fear Allâh much (abstain from all kinds of sins and evil deeds which He has forbidden) and love Allâh much (perform all kinds of good deeds which He has ordained)].

• [007:002] (This is a) Book (the Qur'ân) sent down to you (O Muhammad [sal-Allâhu 'alayhi wa sallam]), so let not your breast be narrow therefrom, that you warn thereby; and a reminder to the believers.

•  • [007:003] [Say (O Muhammad [sal-Allâhu 'alayhi wa

sallam]) to these idolaters (pagan Arabs) of your folk:] Follow what has been sent down to you from your Lord (the Qur'ân and Prophet Muhammad's Sunnah), and follow not any Auliyâ' (protectors and helpers who order you to associate partners in worship with Allâh), besides Him (Allâh). Little do you remember!

• [010:002] Is it a wonder for mankind that We have sent Our Revelation to a man from among themselves (i.e. Prophet Muhammad [sal-Allâhu 'alayhi wa sallam]) (saying): "Warn mankind (of the coming torment in Hell), and give good news to those who believe (in the Oneness of Allâh and in His Prophet Muhammad [sal-Allâhu 'alayhi wa sallam]) that they shall have with their Lord the rewards of their good deeds?" (But) the disbelievers say: "This is indeed an evident sorcerer (i.e. Prophet Muhammad [sal-Allâhu 'alayhi wa sallam] and the Qur'ân)!

• [014:001] Alif-Lâm-Râ.•  • [These letters are one of the miracles of the Qur'ân, and

none but Allâh (Alone) knows their meanings.]•  • (This is) a Book which We have revealed to you (O

Muhammad [sal-Allâhu 'alayhi wa sallam]) in order that you might lead mankind out of darkness (of disbelief and polytheism) into light (of belief in the Oneness of Allâh and Islâmic Monotheism) by their Lord's Leave to the path of the All-Mighty, the Owner of all praise.

• [017:009] Verily, this Qur'ân guides to that which is most just and right and gives glad tidings to the believers (in the Oneness of Allâh and His Messenger Muhammad [sal-Allâhu 'alayhi wa sallam]), who work deeds of righteousness, that they shall have a great reward (Paradise).

• [020:002] We have not sent down the Qur'ân to you (O Muhammad [sal-Allâhu 'alayhi wa sallam]) to cause you distress,

•  • [020:003] But only as a Reminder to those who

fear (Allâh).•  • [020:004] A Revelation from Him (Allâh) Who

has created the earth and high heavens.

• [021:010] Indeed, We have sent down for you (O mankind) a Book (the Qur'ân) in which there is Dhikrukum, (your Reminder or an honour for you, i.e. honour for the one who follows the teaching of the Qur'ân and acts on its teachings). Will you not then understand?

• [032:002] The revelation of the Book (this Qur'ân) in which there is no doubt, is from the Lord of the 'آlamîn (mankind, jinn and all that exists)!

• [036:002] By the Qur'ân, full of wisdom (i.e. full of laws, evidences, and proofs),

•  • [036:003] Truly, you (O Muhammad [sal-Allâhu 'alayhi wa sallam]) are one

of the Messengers,•  • [036:004] On a Straight Path (i.e. on Allâh's religion of Islâmic Monotheism).•  • [036:005] (This is a Revelation) sent down by the All-Mighty, the Most

Merciful,•  • [036:006] In order that you may warn a people whose forefathers were not

warned, so they are heedless.•  

• [039:001] The revelation of this Book (the Qur'ân) is from Allâh, the All-Mighty, the All-Wise.

•  • [039:002] Verily, We have sent down the Book to you (O

Muhammad [sal-Allâhu 'alayhi wa sallam]) in truth. So, worship Allâh (Alone) by doing religious deeds sincerely for Allâh's sake only.

•  • [039:003] Surely, the religion (i.e. the worship and the obedience) is

for Allâh only. And those who take Auliyâ' (protectors, helpers, lords, gods) besides Him (say): "We worship them only that they may bring us near to Allâh." Verily, Allâh will judge between them concerning that wherein they differ. Truly, Allâh guides not him who is a liar, and a disbeliever.

• [039:023] Allâh has sent down the Best Statement, a Book (this Qur'ân), its parts resembling each other (in goodness and truth) (and) oft-repeated. The skins of those who fear their Lord shiver from it (when they recite it or hear it). Then their skin and their heart soften to the remembrance of Allâh. That is the Guidance of Allâh. He guides therewith whom He wills; and whomever Allâh sends astray, for him there is no guide.

• [041:006] Say (O Muhammad [sal-Allâhu 'alayhi wa sallam]): "I am only a human being like you. It is revealed to me that your Ilâh (God) is One Ilâh (God – Allâh), therefore take Straight Path to Him (with true Faith – Islâmic Monotheism) and obedience to Him, and seek forgiveness of Him. And woe to Al-Mushrikûn (the polytheists, idolaters, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allâh).

• [041:044] And if We had sent this as a Qur'ân in a foreign language (other than Arabic), they would have said: "Why are not its Verses explained in detail (in our language)? What! (A Book) not in Arabic and (the Messenger) an Arab?" Say: "It is for those who believe, a guide and a healing. And as for those who disbelieve, there is heaviness (deafness) in their ears, and it (the Qur'ân) is blindness for them. They are those who are called from a place far away (so they neither listen nor understand)."

• [042:015] So to this (religion of Islâm alone and this Qur'ân) then invite (people) (O Muhammad [sal-Allâhu 'alayhi wa sallam]), and stand firm (on Islâmic Monotheism) as you are commanded, and follow not their desires but say: "I believe in whatsoever Allâh has sent down of the Book [all the holy Books, – this Qur'ân and the Books of the old from the Taurât (Torah), or the Injîl (Gospel) or the Pages of Ibrâhîm (Abraham)] and I am commanded to do justice among you. Allâh is our Lord and your Lord. For us our deeds and for you your deeds. There is no dispute between us and you. Allâh will assemble us (all), and to Him is the final return."

• [062:002] He it is Who sent among the unlettered ones a Messenger (Muhammad [sal-Allâhu 'alayhi wa sallam]) from among themselves, reciting to them His Verses, purifying them (from the filth of disbelief and polytheism), and teaching them the Book (this Qur'ân, Islâmic laws and Islâmic jurisprudence) and Al-Hikmah (As-Sunnah: legal ways, orders, acts of worship of Prophet Muhammad [sal-Allâhu 'alayhi wa sallam]). And verily, they had been before in manifest error;

• [003:078] And verily, among them is a party who distort the Book with their tongues (as they read), so that you may think it is from the Book, but it is not from the Book, and they say: "This is from Allâh," but it is not from Allâh; and they speak a lie against Allâh while they know it.

• [002.174] Verily, those who conceal what Allâh has sent down of the Book, and purchase a small gain therewith (of worldly things), they eat into their bellies nothing but fire. Allâh will not speak to them on the Day of Resurrection, nor purify them, and theirs will be a painful torment. [002.175] Those are they who have purchased error at the price of guidance, and torment at the price of forgiveness. So how bold they are (for evil deeds which will push them) to the Fire. [002.176] That is because Allâh has sent down the Book (the Qur'ân) in truth. And verily, those who disputed as regards the Book are far away in opposition.

• There is no change in curriculum of the islamic educational institutions for last few centuries.

• Instead of improving the curriculum with the changing social and scientific conditions, we are following the tradition of the Prophets time by remembering the quran and the tafsir without knowing the meaning.

• "Judgment belongs to Allah alone" (6:57); “Sovereignty of the skies and the earth belongs to Him alone" (9:116);

• "Verily, His is the Creation and the Command." (7:54)