> Discarding the Sunnah > Rasul Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wasallam) said: “Let me not find one > of you, reclining on his couch, when he hears something regarding wh > at I have commanded or forbidden saying: ‘We do not know. What we fo > und in Allah's Book we have followed.’ [Abu Daud] > > This is a good description of the casual attitude with which some > Muslims, unfortunately, discard the Sunnah of our Prophet (sal > Allahu alaihi wasallam). Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) repeatedly links > obedience of Allah to obedience of His Messenger. Allah (subhana wa > ta’ala) says: “And whoever obeys the Messenger, thereby obeys > Allah.” (41:80) and “Whatever the Messenger gives you, take it, > and whatever he forbids you, refrain from it.” (59:7) Innumerable ay > aat of the Quran itself condemn having a ‘Quran only’ approach. > To divorce the Sunnah from Islam is to render Islam ineffective. For > example, the Quran says to pray but without the Sunnah how would we > know how to pray? ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤