If you understand Surah 9 you understand that in Surah Al-Tawbah which is Surah 9 which some scholars call the revealer of scandals it details the actions of several of the companions of the prophet (saw), during the last year or 2 of his life, doing some things that were at best questionable, those companions ended up being in charge of Islam after the assassination of Ali Ibn Abi Taleb, as we explained the Umayyads, now those Umayyads ended up controlling for three full generations 95 years.
So, the question is how much should we trust our Islamic literature? This question has worried every single scholar, because they all are aware of this problem, and yet they didn't have a way to deal with it
So, and then we had this tension for a long time and we still do, the first group is part of stage one identity, the second group a spark of stage 2 identity, so the Quranists and the Mu3tazilites before them are simply revolting against what everyone knows is a problem in our literature, so they didn't have a way to detect and discern right from wrong within our literature, so the solution for the first group is don't worry about the problem just accept everything, and the solution for the second group the Quranist or the Mu3tazilites in the old days, is to throw everything except the Quran and both are wrong, both are misguided with respect to this specific issue, now why didn't they come up with a third option which we offer on this channel, which is the methodology because they didn't think that the Quran may provide its own methodology, don't ask me why Allah (swt), clearly tells us that we should ask for the self-correcting methodology, we say it in every time we recite Al-Fatiha, and in many other Ayah(s).
So, Allah (swt), was talking about this but the Umayyads and the Pharaohs of those times modified the very meaning of self-correcting itself, and therefore Muslims were not able to see that there is a methodology in the Quran, on top of this the Umayyads or the Pharaohs of those times encouraged Muslims to look at the Quran as they would look at a volume Poetry, and therefore there were a lot of different confusing concepts thrown in the mix to distract people from finding the methodology.
So, this methodology with the Abrahamic locution gives us that power for the first time in the history of Muslims, for the first time, were able to use this methodology to sift and discern through the literature to detect if a Hadeeth for example is reported to us on the authority of a close companion, that close companion must have known about the Abrahamic locution, which the prophet (saw), used in his speech because he only spoke Quran, he only said things that go along with the Quran, he could not have said anything that would violate Is the integrity of the language of the Quran, so what we're saying is that language of the Quran is based on the Abrahamic locution, and therefore if you see a Hadeeth where a certain term from the Abrahamic locution, is used in the wrong way know that this Hadeeth is wrong somewhere it's wrong, either it's reported by a companion who was not part of the core group of companions or somewhere along the chain of transmission that Hadeeth got corrupted, and it is not authentic enough.
So, we look at everything that is in our literature and we do not throw it away we apply historical critical evaluation methods, we also apply critical thinking, but most importantly with the organic Quranic methodology the one we use in this channel, and the 1 that includes the Abrahamic locution that we keep talking about, and I keep illustrating for you with every new segment with this methodology we can sift through the literature to discern between right and wrong, and this changes everything.
Now we have somebody shining a light on what was previously a totally dark field, where everybody was looking in the dark for the truth. may Allah (swt), keep us on the right path.
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Quran Translation and Commentary by Dr. Hany Atchan
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