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**EbrsaRynleot** · 06-19-2008, 05:48 PM

I myself am a Muslim. I follow no sect, but I do follow the sunnah of the Prophet (s.a.w.a). And in doing that, Insha'Allah Allah is pleased with me, and save me from the torment of the fire, Ameen.

Okay here's your problem sister. You say you're following nothing but the sunnah. Well, where did you get this sunnah from? Books of hadith?

News flash to everybody: the scholars whose teachings solidified into madhhabs also had access to hadith. They probably memorised more hadith than you will ever read. Now, how on earth do you have the arrogance to think that you can pick up Sahih al Bukhari, flick through it, read the superficial meanings of them largely out of context (with many of them on the surface contradicting each other, or at least hadith in other books).... and somehow you are going to salvage a Shariah out of that? Do you honestly think that your rendition, or Al-Albani's rendition, or whichever Salafi scholar's rendition is going to be closer to the Prophet's sunnah than that of the Imams who were sitting with the actual original Salaf community themselves?

No, don't think so? Then follow a madhhab. Don't take shaytan's way out, which is this arrogant "i'm better than the rest because i follow the pure stuff." Much like Iblis saying "i won't bow because 'm made on fire." Following a madhhab simply means you admit that you don't have the knowledge to devise rulings yourself. Until you do have that awesome level of knowledge, then just follow a madhhab and stop making noise about how they're sects and so on. It's not about sectarianism, it's about humility.

06-19-2008, 05:48 PM	#32
EbrsaRynleot Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 543 Senior Member	I myself am a Muslim. I follow no sect, but I do follow the sunnah of the Prophet (s.a.w.a). And in doing that, Insha'Allah Allah is pleased with me, and save me from the torment of the fire, Ameen. Okay here's your problem sister. You say you're following nothing but the sunnah. Well, where did you get this sunnah from? Books of hadith? News flash to everybody: the scholars whose teachings solidified into madhhabs also had access to hadith. They probably memorised more hadith than you will ever read. Now, how on earth do you have the arrogance to think that you can pick up Sahih al Bukhari, flick through it, read the superficial meanings of them largely out of context (with many of them on the surface contradicting each other, or at least hadith in other books).... and somehow you are going to salvage a Shariah out of that? Do you honestly think that your rendition, or Al-Albani's rendition, or whichever Salafi scholar's rendition is going to be closer to the Prophet's sunnah than that of the Imams who were sitting with the actual original Salaf community themselves? No, don't think so? Then follow a madhhab. Don't take shaytan's way out, which is this arrogant "i'm better than the rest because i follow the pure stuff." Much like Iblis saying "i won't bow because 'm made on fire." Following a madhhab simply means you admit that you don't have the knowledge to devise rulings yourself. Until you do have that awesome level of knowledge, then just follow a madhhab and stop making noise about how they're sects and so on. It's not about sectarianism, it's about humility.
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