I am a revert into Islam by phafudis@gmail.com

I am a revert into Islam by phafudis@gmail.com

 

BISMILLAHI RAHMANI RAHIM

I am a revert into Islam . The good part about that is, I stood up in a masjid, declared in front of the imam and twenty other muslims that: Allah is the only diety worthy of worship, and Muhammad is His messenger. A lot of muslims have not done that.

I remained a christian for many years because it was considered blasphemous to question things and apply your aql . Then I collided with Islam. Initially we were encouraged to question, to explore and interrogate the sacrosant principle of the holy trinity.

Once inside Islam, that spirit of enquiry was brought to an abrupt halt. Reasons cited included inter alia the inability to read the Quran in arabic . And gradually the Quran was replaced by hadith as a source of knowledge. Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Hurreira and others now formed the basis of belief .

You can go to many Jummuah talks and hear nothing of the Quran except mere recitation . Not only are some of these Hadiths outrightly nonsensical, but also contradictory to the Quran.

Our Ulema are now sacrosant ivory tower dwellers, who can't be questioned. They are themselves Islam. When you question them you are supposedly questioning Islam, thus risk being declared a kaffir, a munafiqin, a shia etc.

Does our ulemas realise that Islam did not invent God. He existed before the advent of islam. People have been worshiping, praying to Him and obey His laws according to their understanding of the time. From time to time Allah (s.w.t) would send a prophet, to bring mankind back to the correct teaching, because, by the passage of time man gets lost. Whether he is a learned scholar or not.

Do men realise that when prophet Ebrahim (s.a.w) started his work, he went against the established religious order of the time . So was prophet Muhammad (s.w.t) and all the ambiya .

Today we observe and follow their teachings. Islam does not change, what changes is the interpretation and thus the practice . So questioning can never be a sign of unbelief, but rather its deepening . So those who don't want to be questioned, can they step down from the positions of power bestowed on them by men .

" Men of knowledge are ruined by eight things: greed and miserliness, showing off and partisanship, love of praise, delving into things whose reality they cannot reach , affectation by taking excessive pains to beautify their speech with superfluos expressions, lack of modesty before God, boastfulness, and not acting upon what they know." Imam Djafar Al Sadiq.