Islamic Practice & Logic

  Barazi and Israfil pls keep discussing this topic over here instead of private. Am sure there are many people like Barazi {thoughts} and they need a very good guidance from members like u.

Fatima, Amah and Mishmish , loved u r posts.

Bismillah irrahman irrahim

Assalamu alaikum

You would appreciate every one being reasonable to you replying to your post and I hope I get the same even though some thing I would say seem harsh to you. I would want to answer to your comments to sister Mishmish and hope she don�t mind me doing this, I totally agree to your first comment that we should have a stronger will than giving in to shaytan every time and this is proven with a hadith which mentions that our worst enemy is our own nafs, shaytan only whispers in our ears and to listen to it is up to us but spitting three times on your left is what is mentioned in a sahih hadith, I would advise you to be bit more respectful when you mention ahadith even though you disagree with their authenticity.

I disagree with your second comment, Allah swt who is our creator knows us more than ourselves, Allah swt says in Holy Quran that He created man as weak, in another place He said that if it was not for the fact that even the strongest of believers would steer away from right path, Allah swt would give so much to disbelievers that it fills all the space in earth (or its between the heaven and earth) because that�s all they are ever getting, pleasure for a very short while and that�s how little this world means to Allah swt.  Now your comment about salah, brother it is not upto you to decide about Laws of Allah swt, there is consensus over the fact that a person who thinks five times prayer is not fard on him and leaves it, is falling in a major sin, not being able to pray five times a day due to being lazy and negligent is a different  matter but I pray and hope that none of us fall into first category.

Your third comment, well issue of hijab being discussed in too too much detail and if you go to sister�s section you will find Quranic evidence along with sahih Ahadith which mentions necessity of women covering up, brother you think that not practising the islamic dress code and shaking hands with opposite sex is no big deal, few generation later it might be tight jeans and kiss on the cheek and few generation later having a relation then its drugs and all that, I am not just saying it, it is an educated guess cos that�s the route for western cultures and that�s why Allah swt did not leave it for humans to decide because in His complete knowledge He knows that this finite being is short sighted.

Now your last few comments involve you thinking that if some thing is not in Holy Quran, its upto you to follow the ahadith or not, well very respectfully but you cannot be more wrong, Allah swt says in Holy Quran, �4:80] Whoever obeys the Messenger, he indeed obeys Allah, and whoever turns back, so We have not sent you as a keeper over them�. There are ahadith which prohibit the tattooing, shaking hands with opposite sex and lastly prayer of five times are mentioned in Holy Quran at two different places, do you not think that if it was more beneficial Allah swt would have just send His laws and commandments straight down from heaven without a Messenger (as) in between, actually come to think of it that would have been bigger miracle a book coming down from the blue sky but He did not, He chose to send Prophets (as) because that�s easier way for His slave to follow.  when Allah swt left the details of some basic matters out of Holy Quran and then said follow the Messenger (saw) and that�s is following your Lord,  don�t you think He is going to make sure that practises of His Messenger (saw) reaches to all the generations there are to come?  Allah swt says in Holy Quran that He is not going to give a reason to disbelievers to make their case of disbelief on The Day of Judgment.

You said rightly in your comment to sister amah that understanding Holy Quran in its totality is not even possible for scholars, ahadith tells us that it was not even possible for Messengers (as) to completely understand what is in the Holy Books. But brother Allah swt says in Holy Quran that some part of the Book are clear (muhkamat) and some not so clear (mutashabihat) and we should learn second type through first not the other way round.

Lastly before I say what I want to say I am clearing it up that when some one tells you that what you doing is wrong, they don�t mean that you going to hell in result of it as there are plenty of ahadith which tells us that a person could be sinning all his life and still go to paradise due to his last act as you are raised from state in which you die and judgement is only for Allah swt not for us human to decide who is going where, saying that yes till the day you don�t have a firm belief in your heart that five daily prayers are fard, you are sinning, that�s is the major issue, the other things which you belive in like necessity of covering up and tattooing and only believing in ahadith which suite you well they put you in wrong, and I am saying all this in a hope that you don�t mind my honesty as you expected the same from us

All knowledge is with Allah swt

Wassalam