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

Section I
Introduction
The research paper that follows was prepared to answer some seemingly
important social issue in contemporary Bangladesh – the question of hadiths. The main
goal of the paper was to investigate the credibility of hadiths and the social impact of
hadiths in the regular Bangladeshi society.
For quite some time the author had believed that Muslims in Bangladesh have
become rather dogmatic in their ideologies for a long time, and this is largely due to the
influence of hadiths in Islamic ideologies. The ongoing debate related to the authenticity
of hadiths had, in fact, affected the author personally for a very long time. Exposed rather
early to this debate, the author had the opportunity to read a lot of literature regarding this
very issue, and spent a lot of time contemplating on it. Regular discussions were held in
Physics classes back in high school, and on social networking sites like Facebook. All
this provided the author with all the necessary arguments and counterarguments
regarding hadiths, without the information regarding it.
At one point, the gravity of hadiths became very obscure to the author. As days
went by, hadiths seemed more about superstitions and less about spirituality. Faced with
this problem, many practicing Muslims pick and choose which hadiths to follow for their
convenience. For a while, the author personally did the same but then, felt very guilty.
There had to be a better way than declaring hadiths “authentic” as per will and advantage.
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