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**Anaerbguagree** · 09-02-2012, 08:37 PM

Salam alaykum

I will just make one very short lay observation and the truly knwoledgeable people can expand upon it:

The colonizers took their mores mostly from books. This meant that they debased all sort of oral transmission of information, so when they met all other types of people - such Australian Aboregenes, or Native Americans, etc., they could not believe that anything they could say was possibily true, since in any case they did not think of them as being anything other than monkeys in semi-human shape.

Same goes with their thinking Muslims: The Western-oriented cannot comprehend that such a complex religious system can have anything to do with oral transmission, which is why we have the useless research of non-Muslims into seeing when is the oldest written "proof" of the Qur'an, of the Hadith, of Muhammad's (SAW) existence.

This has seeped down to our time and within our community, in the form of Hadith-rejecters and other modernists, who reject anything and everything that they do not see written in books, even though in Islam what is written in the books is normally a textualization of what was recited or said long before it was written down.

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Anaerbguagree Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 393 Senior Member	Salam alaykum I will just make one very short lay observation and the truly knwoledgeable people can expand upon it: The colonizers took their mores mostly from books. This meant that they debased all sort of oral transmission of information, so when they met all other types of people - such Australian Aboregenes, or Native Americans, etc., they could not believe that anything they could say was possibily true, since in any case they did not think of them as being anything other than monkeys in semi-human shape. Same goes with their thinking Muslims: The Western-oriented cannot comprehend that such a complex religious system can have anything to do with oral transmission, which is why we have the useless research of non-Muslims into seeing when is the oldest written "proof" of the Qur'an, of the Hadith, of Muhammad's (SAW) existence. This has seeped down to our time and within our community, in the form of Hadith-rejecters and other modernists, who reject anything and everything that they do not see written in books, even though in Islam what is written in the books is normally a textualization of what was recited or said long before it was written down.
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