Research Paper Analysis of Credibility of Hadiths and Its Influence ...

towards a religion has become an object of culture, although faith does remain near and
dear to many.
This is so because the survey results showed that the laymen Muslims did spend a
lot of time on thinking about Islam and contemplating about contemporary Islamic issues.
They did have mediocre knowledge about the faith, and were able to make valuable input
towards the survey. However, their apathy towards observing Islam in their daily lives
has given the idea that following a religion is a culture more than a choice of faith for
many.
As a result, it can be concluded that the contemporary Muslim society doesn‟t
care about the hadiths. Any effect of hadiths in their daily lives doesn‟t come from
religious observance, but from a cultural habit. Being a Muslim today is a cultural
identity more than a religious one.
As for the Muslims in the madrasha, the next generation clerics, they are
receiving daily doses of disputed facts and falsehoods. They are seldom encouraged to
research on the Quran, but prompted to do so on hadiths. The survey clearly showed that
on the scale of 1 to 5, when asked whether they regularly recite the Quran with its
translation, the mean response was 3.8, with a standard deviation of 1. This has been the
largest standard deviation in the entire survey after the question regarding female
leadership. So we can see that even the madrashas are not encouraging their students to
understand, ponder and research on the Quran. This certainly is a bad omen for Islam in
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