A critical analysis of the Modernists and the Hadeeth ... - Islam House

Muhammad Abduh alleged that the Islamic nation has agreed,
"except for a very few who can be ignored that if Aql
contradicts Naql, then what is proven by Aql has to be
taken.”
Muhammad Abduh's statement holds good only if he is referring to
the Mu'tazilah, the Ash'ariyah and their ilk. But as for Ahlus-Sunnah,
they do not give precedence to Aql over the sayings of the Messenger
� as is known from the Imams of Deen like Imam Malik, Shafa'ee,
Ahmad, Ishaaq ibn Rahwiya, Sufyan ath-Thawreee, ibnul-Mubarak,
ibn Uyaynah, ad-Darimee and others. Far from 'Aql over Naql' being
the majority view, it is a heretical principle rejected overwhelmingly.
For the modernist however, this heretical principle is so essential that
Fahmi Huwaidi (considered an 'Islamist' journalist) considers
following the Naql (texts of the Qur'aan and the Sunnah) to be idol-
worship, he says,
"idol-worship is not merely worship of the idols,
rather idol-worship in today's time has been represented
by… worship of the texts…"
[Quoted from al-Islam wan-Nasraniyah (p. 56)]
[Majallah (no. 235) 1978, quoted from al-Asraniyoon p. 178]
4. Modernists claim that the Qur'aan can only be a relevant
source of guidance as long as it can be interpreted
independently in the present, and thus they reject the
Sunnah as an explainer of the Qur'aan and an independent source of
Islamic teaching, especially in matters of Aqeedah.
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