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

The 'progressives' for most part find academic direction from
the misguidance of the Mu'tazilah and the Mulhid philosophers, and
show very little intellectual integrity and sincerity as will be apparent
from the following incident.
The Female-Imam Fiasco
In March 2005, US-based 'progressives' arranged for Amina
Wadud, a feminist, to give the Friday khutbah and lead the prayers in
a church to a mixed gathering of men and women.
The justification was a weak narration about a woman called
'Umm Waraqah' who was allowed to lead the prayers for her
household. They used this weak narration despite the well-known fact
that in Islam only men are allowed to lead the prayers and the prayer-
rows of women are behind that of men. What is amazing is that
'progressives' reject most or all hadeeth as a source of legislation.
It turned out that Amina Wadud does not even believe in
parts of the Qur'aan.
A month before the 'church event', another
'progressive' Tarek Fatah reported the following about Amina
Wadud's lecture in Toronto.
"Midway through her speech … (Wadud) stated that despite
the fact the Qur'aan explicitly asks for cutting off the hands of
thieves, she did not agree with the Qur'aan…
She maintained that as a Muslim with Allah close to her heart,
in all honesty she could not continue with the hypocrisy of lying
about how she felt about some verses of the Qur'aan…
She declared that she could not intellectually or spiritually
accept some things in the Qur'aan, for example some of the
hudud punishments like the cutting of hands or the permission
to beat one's wife."
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