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[quote]no doubt that following any scholars has to be with open minds whilst using brains keeping the Guardian/muhaimin(Qura'n)  as the criterion. alhamdulillah the work of the scholars of this site is based on this criterion. as a matter of fact Qura'n asks us to use our minds even whilst reading the Qura'n itself.

[green]now the one and single source of Truth untill the Day of Judgement is only Muhammad (sws). because  Qur'an was revealed upon him and hence his teachings automatically include the teachings of Qur'an; since its revelation began he spent his life teaching it in words and practice.[/green]
as for all the hadiths that we give for ref.of specially if we are deriving Rules from them, the recommended action is to critically analyze each one of them, like dr waseem has done about the hijab article post- obviously none of us is a hadith scholar here-we can therefore take help from those who are presently working on this speciality. [purple]unfortunately our scholarship in islamic sciences is only a handful and juvenile compared to the scholarship of other sciences in the world today; hence we ought to encourage these handfuls who have taken this daunting task of critically analyzing and researching in islamic sciences and propagating the essence of it, the Truth; which is the only hope for the muslim ummah today to come out of the darkness of sectarinism and ignorance-leading to their destruction everywhere in the world.[/purple]

the present day ilm/knowledge in any subject is heavily based on critical analysis be it literacy, maths, physics, biology. [blue]we must think that why should the science of hadith be excluded from it.[/blue] this is what has turned the bright minds of today, specially our younger generations completely away from hadith (few of these generations hv already been effected now and if we didn't do anything about it [blue]N:OW[/blue], another generation will take a one-way ticket out of our community)  [purple]that whatever they otherwise learn out there and are specializing in is making them leaders of innovative thoughts by getting involved in critical techniques, texture criricism, critical research; and when they come to the masjids they are asked to take another approach; where the systen is based on traditional thought-they are expected to put heads down and follow blindly like a herd of sheep and if we don't use our minds here as well, we'll be practically being a herd of sheep here, just wasting time--if we all don't mind [/purple] [V][:)]

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