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Q’uran, Hadith, Folk Islam, Leaders, Law

Q’uran, Hadith, Folk Islam, Leaders, Law. The Authorities of Islam. Session 3. Qur’an. Status Origin Date Character Abrogation Recommended Qur’an readings. The Sunna (Traditions) and Hadiths (Compilation of Traditions). Sunna & Hadiths clarify the Qur’an

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Q’uran, Hadith, Folk Islam, Leaders, Law

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  1. Q’uran, Hadith, Folk Islam, Leaders, Law The Authorities of Islam Session 3

  2. Qur’an • Status • Origin • Date • Character • Abrogation • Recommended Qur’an readings

  3. The Sunna (Traditions)and Hadiths (Compilation of Traditions) • Sunna & Hadiths clarify the Qur’an • 300,000 oral and written traditions • “Verily in the messenger of Allah you have a good example” (33:21)

  4. The Prophet is caught as it were in the ordinary acts of his life—sleeping, eating, mating, praying, hating, dispensing justice, planning expeditions and revenge against his enemies. The picture that emerges is hardly flattering, and one is left wondering why in the first instance it was reported at all and whether it was done by his admirers or his enemies. One is also left to wonder how the believers, generation after generation, could have found this story so inspiring.

  5. The answer is that believers are conditioned to look at the whole thing through the eyes of faith. An infidel in his fundamental misguidance may find the Prophet rather sensual and cruel—and certainly many of the things that he did do not conform to ordinary ideas of morality—but the believers look at the whole thing differently. For them morality derives from the Prophet’s actions; the moral is whatever he did. Morality does not determine the Prophet’s actions, but his actions determine and define morality. Muhammad’s acts were not ordinary acts; they were Allah’s own acts.

  6. It was in this way and by this logic that Muhammad’s opinions became the dogmas of Islam and his personal habits and idiosyncrasies become moral imperatives; Allah’s commands for all believers in all ages and climes to follow (Ram Swarup, quoted in Phil Parshall, Understanding Muslim Teachings and Traditions: A Guide for Christians, 12).

  7. The Sunna (Traditions)and Hadiths (Compilation of Traditions) • Sunna & Hadiths clarify the Qur’an • 300,000 oral and written traditions • “Verily in the messenger of Allah you have a good example” (33:21) • Include hundreds of various legendary miracles

  8. Folk Islam “Leaders eventually legitimize what cannot be displaced”

  9. Mosques / Mullahs / Imams

  10. The Shari’a • Three primary parts: • Laws of Inheritance • Criminal Punishments (hadd) • Commandments and Prohibitions (fiqh)

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