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[quote]QUOTE: - Which Jamaat to follow?

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

GOD SAYS: “Wa an-iabudunee haazaa sirat-i-mustaqeem (And that you serve Me; this is the right path)”- (36: 61)

The Quranic verse seems to be very much simple for someone to explain the answer of the question of this forum and for the readers to understand the meanings but God knows better.

Serving God seems to be meaning, “Doing what God likes i.e. doing what He commands and refraining from what He forbids” and this Law of commanding and forbidding is His Book- Holy Quran which implicitly demands its understanding catalyzed, facilitated, augmented, enhanced or reinforced by the Sunnah (33- 21) of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).

Next question, which definitely arises, is that, as not all of us agree on the single interpretation of God’s sayings, who is then right? The simple answer is as follows.

According to me ALL THOSE, regardless of their sects, who are SINCERE TO THE RELIGION and have their BEST INTENTIONS, are on the RIGHT PATH regardless of the interpretations they do and the understandings they have because they are submitting or serving God to the best of their intentions, knowledge and the belief, nothing else. Nothing else exclusively indicates for God only or bypassing our own benefits of this world though, in serving God, our benefits are surely present in this world and in the hereafter.

God knows the intentions. So any Jamaat with best intentions and the sincerities, REGARDLESS of their understandings of the religion, is RIGHT and can be followed. But, on contrary, any Jamaat, which says, “We are right and all others wrong” are NOT worth following.

I have read somewhere, at this site, the example of some blind men trying to know the features of a living elephant by palpating (because they can’t see) it. One who palpates the legs only says elephant is like a pillar, one who palpates the tail only says elephant is like a rope, one who palpates the abdomen only says elephant is like a tank and one who palpates the ear only says elephant is like a fan (hand fan). So everyone is right according to one’s approach and the limit of understanding while ALL ARE WRONG. They can be right only if they combine all the information and form only ONE COMMON PICTURE. Similarly if all religious Jamaats combine and produce ONLY ONE common thinking according to Holy Quran and Ahadith, then they MAY be right. BUT, are the Muslims whose EVERY JAMAAT gives the REFERENCES OF HOLY QURAN AND AHADITH, ready to agree to make a common thinking OR, is *the Jamaats which consider themselves knowledgeable and all others illiterate ready for the purpose or they want to impose their OWN thinking and the desires, by hook or crook, on every other Jamaat?
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 *As I have mentioned in the beginning of this post, any Jamaat, which considers itself knowledgeable and all others illiterate, must NEVER be followed. They are actually the people who have the bad intentions, insincerities and are eroding deliberately the roots of Islam and they will always remain struck off.

Wassalaam with the saying of God:

Our Lord! Lay open the truth between and our people, for you are the best of all to lay open the truth. (7: 89)[/quote]

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