A Dozen Reasons
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3) The Quran confirms that the only duty of Muhammad
(or of any messenger) is to deliver God’s message, and not
to teach any other teachings:
The only duty of the messenger is to deliver God’s message.
(5:99; see also 5:92, 16:35, 16:82, 24:54, 29:18, 42:48, 64:12)
4) God commands the believers to obey the prophet,
but God also makes sure that the obedience to the prophet is linked
to obeying the message he delivered and nothing else. Obeying the
prophet does not mean that he had a Sunnah to be obeyed.
The confirmation that the obedience to the prophet is linked to
obeying the message he delivered (the Quran) is confirmed in the
following verse:
Obey God and obey the messenger. If you shall turn
away then the sole mission of the messenger is to deliver the message
(the Quran) (64:12)
Note how the obedience to the prophet and the deliverance of the
Quran are linked in the same verse.
5) You will never read any where in the Quran
words like “Obey God and obey Muhammad” or obey Jesus,
or Moses. It is always the word “messenger” that is
used in order to emphasize that what is to be obeyed is the message
of God and not the personal words of any messenger.
6) The Quran also confirms that Muhammad was commanded
not to teach any other teachings, otherwise he would incur severe
punishment from God:
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This (the Quran) is a
revelation from the Lord of the universe. Had he (Muhammad) uttered
any other teachings, We would have punished him, and We would have
stopped the revelations to him. None of you could have helped him.
(69:43-47)
7) Muhammad was made to swear that the only revelation
he received from God was the Quran. The following verse confirms
that all of what is known as “hadith al-qudsy” (sacred
sayings) are practically lies that the prophet is innocent of:
Say (O Muhammad) “whose testimony is the greatest?”
Say “God’s.” He is the witness between me and
you that this Quran has been inspired to me to preach it to you
and whomever it reaches… (6:19)
If the “hadith al-qudsy” was indeed God speaking to
Muhammad as they falsely claim, wouldn’t the verse carry a
testimony to that??
Nowhere in the Quran is there any indication that Muhammad received
from God anything other than the Quran.
8) Prophet Muhammad himself commanded his people
not to write his hadiths (sayings). This is historically recorded
in the books of Sahih Muslim and other hadith books:
“Do not write down anything of me except the
Quran. Whoever writes other than that should delete it” (Ahmed,
Vol. 1, page 171; also in the books of Sahih Muslim)
9) For the first 150 years to 200 years after
the death of the prophet the writing of his hadith was forbidden,
in accordance with his commands. The first one to document a comprehensive
collection of hadith was Al-Bukhari. Note that Al-Bukhari was born
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year 198 after Hijrah (prophet’s
emigration to Medina). What does that make you think??
Even if we were to follow the hadith, how accurate can a collection
of sayings documented two centuries after the death of the prophet
be??
10) God commands the prophet in the Quran to say
that he is infallible in the revelation he delivers, but that he
may commit errors in his personal words and hadiths:
Say “If I go astray, I go astray because of
my shortcomings, and if I am rightly guided it is due to the revelation
I receive from my Lord.” (34:50)
In spite of that confirmation and also six incidents
in the Quran when the prophet is reprimanded by God for the errors
he committed, the idolizers of Muhammad claim that he was infallible!!
These incidents are found in 8:67-68, 9:43, 9:113-114, 33:37, 66:1
and 80:1-11.
11) The Quran confirms that every prophet will
have enemies of the human and jinn devils who will fabricate fancy
sayings and attribute them to the prophet to deceive the people:
We have permitted the enemies of every prophet, human
and jinn devils, to inspire in each other fancy sayings, in order
to deceive. (6:112)
God also asserts that only the disbelievers will listen to such
fabrications (see 6:113)
12) Finally, we are told that the Quran is totally
sufficient for the genuine believer as a source of law for the following
reasons:
A- The Quran is not in need of an annex since it is complete:
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