Top 10 Misconceptions About Islam

[t_for_talli]

No Sir we love him more than our life we can tolerate our insult but not of our PROPHET SAW Sir and expressing has limits if some one comes and start abusing your parents I don't think you will tolerate that and we love him more than our parents

Is capital punishment justified for his deeds ?
Is that not barbarism?

 

[user1]

If we start comparing Quran and Hadith, it would appear that Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) himself was the biggest denier of Quran.

While the enemies of Islam could not change Quran (Allah promises the protection of Quran till end times) they started making a new source to follow their own selfish desires.

In 722, Ibn Abi al-Awja was executed after confessing that he had fabricated 4000 ahadiths to serve his own purposes.

The most authentic source of Ahadith is Sahih Bukhari, it was written 150 years after the passing away of the Prophet (PBUH). The author (Imam Bukhari) collected 600,000 ahadith and deemed only about 7000 among them to be authentic.

Even among those many are alleged to be totally in contradiction to Quran.

Most of the Sharia law has nothing to do with Quran, it is based upon Hadith.

There is no mentioning of 72 virgins in Quran --- the source is hadith.
There is no mentioning of stoning to death in Quran --- the source is hadith.
There is no mentioning of blasphemy law or any capital punishment due to blasphemy --- the source is hadith.
There is no mentioning of capital punishment for leaving Islam --- the source is hadith.

Let there be no compulsion in Deen (loosely translated religion) truth stands clear from error (Quran 2:256)

 

[livingdead]

I thought number 7,6,3 and 2 are true.

 

[niaz]

You decide who's wrong The Hadiths,The Prophet or you?Please be specific.No dilly dallying.

It is a fact that the 6 collections of the Traditions known as ‘Saheeh Sitta’ were complied after the period when almost all the Sehaaba Karaam (those who had met the holy Prophet (PBUH) personally and most of the Taba’eens (those who knew Sehabaa personally) were no longer alive.

The yardstick is called ‘Asnaad’ meaning number of sources that corroborate the Tradition. However if more than one source describes the same event it doesn’t necessarily mean that it is correct. One cannot rule out the possibility of incorrect transmission in any saying or Tradition which was orally transmitted for 100 years before being formally written down.

I stand by my assertion that there is strong likelihood that Ummul Momineen Hazrat Ayesha’s (RA) age at the time of her marriage has been incorrectly mentioned as 9. It was probably closer to 15 as Allama Pervez has tried to prove.

I am a Muslim and it is my belief that our holy Prophet (PBUH) was ‘Masoom’ and never said or did anything which was wrong or against the will of Allah.

Regret to say that I don’t see what your honourable self is trying to get at.

 

[DRaisinHerald]

It is a fact that the 6 collections of the Traditions known as ‘Saheeh Sitta’ were complied after the period when almost all the Sehaaba Karaam (those who had met the holy Prophet (PBUH) personally and most of the Taba’eens (those who knew Sehabaa personally) were no longer alive.

The yardstick is called ‘Asnaad’ meaning number of sources that corroborate the Tradition. However if more than source describes the same event it doesn’t necessarily mean that it is correct. One cannot rule out the possibility of incorrect transmission in any saying or Tradition which was orally transmitted for 100 years before being formally written down.

I stand by my assertion that there is strong likelihood that Ummul Momineen Hazrat Ayesha’s age at the time of her marriage has been incorrectly mentioned as 9. It was probably closer to 15 as Allama Pervez has tried to prove.

I am a Muslim and it is my belief that our holy Prophet (PBUH) was ‘Masoom’ and never said or did anything which was wrong or against the will of Allah.

Regret to say that I don’t see what your honourable self is trying to get at.

Agree, but don't you think you're using too many complicated urdu/persian/arabic words in your replies? I don't think Indians generally understand half of them

 

[World_Peace]

Agree, but don't you think you're using too many complicated urdu/persian/arabic words in your replies? I don't think Indians generally understand half of them

Buddy you may be quite intelligent compared to me,however when asked questions you shouldn't make fun of the less intelligent ones.

 

[sur]

I can see clear differance between Islam and Muslim. A Muslim is a practitioner of the Islamic religion. Islam was never a difficult religion, but it is made difficult to a level where people are scared of it.

I blame wrong understanding, and practice of Islam. ... No one dares to try to repeal these inhuman laws then be ready for misconceptions, generalizations.

I totally agree ...
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On topic; I can give you some misconceptions about islam "with-in" muslims ...

(1): Death penalty for apostate; a widely-believed "GRAVE" misconception... If someone is willing I can post all the evidence that this is totally based on misconception.

(2):Stoning for adultery; another widely-believed "GRAVE misconception":- Ahadees tell us that there was a Quranic Aayat on stoning & it was later "ABROGATED" ... Why would God remove the verse if HE wanted the order to stay ...!!! removal of verse means such punishment was nullified ... Verse that was left now is the sentence for both fornication & adultery; 80-lashes ... same (80-lashes) for anyone who wrongly accuse someone of adultery/fornication but cannot produce 4 witnesses ...

(3):ONLY muslims will enter Paradise:- Quran say otherwise ... (references available on demand)

(4): Music is haraam on it's own:- Would Prophet allow HARAAM in his own house...!!! ... once on EID-day Aisha(r.a) & 2 girls sang songs in Prophet's house & when he came home he did NOT stop them & went to bed ,,, then Abu Bakr came in & scolded Aisha(his daughter) for singing,,, Prophet scolded Abu bakr instead & told him to let them sing.... If music was HARAAM per-say, Prophet wouldn't let it inside his own house ...

It's ONLY the way music is used most of times is what is bad ,,, Just like knife, u can cut apple with it or kill someone ,,, depend on how it is used ...


(5): Muslims say Muhammad(pbuh) was greatest of all prophets; & exaggerate in it too much:-
Quran:3:84:-Say (O Muhammad SAW): "We believe in Allâh and in what has been sent down to us, and what was sent down to Ibrâhim (Abraham), Ismâ'il (Ishmael), Ishâq (Isaac), Ya'qûb (Jacob) and Al-Asbât [the offspring twelve sons of Ya'qûb (Jacob)] and what was given to Mûsa (Moses), 'Īsā (Jesus) and the Prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between one another among them and to Him (Allâh) we have submitted (in Islâm)."

Quran:2:136:Say ye: "We believe, in Allah and the revelation given to us and to Abraham Isma`il Isaac Jacob and the Tribes and that given to Moses and Jesus and that given to (all) Prophets from their Lord we make no difference between one and another of them and we bow to Allah (in Islam)."

Bukhari:volume:4, Book:55: Hadith Number:624 (also 608, 625, 626):- The Prophet said, "None of you should say that I am better than Yunus (i.e. Jonah).

Bukhari:Volumn 004, Book 055, Hadith Number 626.:-
- - - The Prophet became angry, till anger appeared on his face, and said, "Don't give superiority to any prophet amongst Allah's Prophets - - -

Bukhari:Volumn 8, Book 82, Hadith Number 817.
... Then Allah's Apostle said, 'Do not praise me excessively as Jesus, son of Marry was praised, but call me Allah's Slave and His Apostles.' ...

(6): Death sentence for those who blaspheme Prophet:- A lady used to regularly throw garbage on Prophet, one day she didn't & this worried Prophet & he went to seek her & found her sick with fever, he took care of her & gave her water etc ,,,!!! does it sound like death-sentence for throwing garbage on him... !!! ppl in Koofa(?) threw stones on Prophet till his shoes were full of blood,,, he prayed well-wishes for them in return, doesn't sound like death penalty to me...!!!

Very nice article, however I have one correction to make, Hazrat Ayesha was married to Hazrat Muhammad(PBUH) at 9 years of age but the marriage was Solemnized later when she reached the age of 15 at Makkah. Which means that although she was committed to Prophet Muhammad(PBUH) at the age of 9. They had no marital relations until she reached the age of 15.

You are GROSSLY poorly informed ... Read Sahih Ahadees narrated by Aisha(r.a) herself.
She was 6 when contract was made & after she entered puberty (as told by herself) she had her "RUKHSATI" (consummation) of marriage at the age of 9 ... In those days & in old days ppl used to marry girls as soon as they would be enter puberty , In japan until recently age of marriage was 14 (don't know about now!!!) so Japanese are also pedophiles according to Western criteria ,,, No!!!

Even staunch enemies of islam did NOT have any problem with that marriage , Parents of Aisha did NOT have any problem,,, WHY,,, coz it was NORM ,,, & it IS norm in many parts of world even NOW... It's ONLY fudged up Western mentality that sees problem with that "MARRIAGE" while having NO problem with children kissing in movies & youngsters mating at earlier age ... getting pregnant too ,,, They r simply blinded by their jealousy against potential of islam ...

 

[user1]

See by your writings and by user1's I think there are certain problems with the Hadiths so why not reject it as a whole and only accept the Quran?We have a similar case of Apocryphal books in Christianity which as you described also deals with tradition but has nothing to do with the Holy Canon and it is rejected by all except Catholics.I believe all of the wrong things that we see in Islam is due to the Hadiths and not from Quran.(These are my thoughts you are free to correct me).

Such problems exist in every 'revealed' (or inspired) religion, e.g. How would you defend the 'Women Status' as described in 'Laws of Manu'. e.g. 'The source of dishonor is woman; the source of strife is woman; the source of earthly existence is woman; therefore avoid woman'.

 

[niaz]

I saw an article in the Dawn of today about Hazrat Ayesha's (RA) age at the time of marriage. It is copied below;

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Of Aisha’s age at marriage Nilofar Ahmed | Opinion | From the Newspaper
17 hours ago

IT is said that Hazrat Aisha was six years old when her nikah was performed with Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Makkah, and nine years old when she moved in to live with her husband in Madina after Hijra.

This piece of misinformation has led to the wrong view that child marriage has the sanction of Islam. It must be noted that establishing the authenticity of hadiths, the narrators’ circumstances and the conditions at that time have to be correlated with historical facts. There is only one hadith by Hisham which suggests the age of Hazrat Aisha as being nine when she came to live with her husband.

Many authentic hadiths also show that Hisham’s narration is incongruous with several historical facts about the Prophet’s life, on which there is consensus. With reference to scholars such as Umar Ahmed Usmani, Hakim Niaz Ahmed and Habibur Rehman Kandhulvi, I would like to present some arguments in favour of the fact that Hazrat Aisha was at least 18 years old when her nikah was performed and at least 21 when she moved into the Prophet’s house to live with him.

According to Umar Ahmed Usmani, in Surah Al-Nisa, it is said that the guardian of the orphans should keep testing them, until they reach the age of marriage, before returning their property (4:6). From this scholars have concluded that the Quran sets a minimum age of marriage which is at least puberty. Since the approval of the girl has a legal standing, she cannot be a minor.

Hisham bin Urwah is the main narrator of this hadith. His life is divided into two periods: in 131A.H. the Madani period ended, and the Iraqi period started, when Hisham was 71 years old. Hafiz Zehbi has spoken about Hisham’s loss of memory in his later period. His students in Madina, Imam Malik and Imam Abu Hanifah, do not mention this hadith. Imam Malik and the people of Madina criticised him for his Iraqi hadiths.

All the narrators of this hadith are Iraqis who had heard it from Hisham. Allama Kandhulvi says that the words spoken in connection with Hazrat Aisha’s age were tissa ashara, meaning 19, when Hisham only heard (or remembered), tissa, meaning nine. Maulana Usmani thinks this change was purposely and maliciously made later.

Historian Ibn Ishaq in his Sirat Rasul Allah has given a list of the people who accepted Islam in the first year of the proclamation of Islam, in which Hazrat Aisha’s name is mentioned as Abu Bakr’s “little daughter Aisha”. If we accept Hisham’s calculations, she was not even born at that time.

Some time after the death of the Prophet’s first wife, Hazrat Khadija, Khawla suggested to the Prophet that he get married again, to a bikrun, referring to Hazrat Aisha (Musnad Ahmed). In Arabic bikrun is used for an unmarried girl who has crossed the age of puberty and is of marriageable age. The word cannot be used for a six-year-old girl.

Some scholars think that Hazrat Aisha was married off so early because in Arabia girls mature at an early age. But this was not a common custom of the Arabs at that time. According to Allama Kandhulvi, there is no such case on record either before or after Islam. Neither has this ever been promoted as a Sunnah of the Prophet. The Prophet married off his daughters Fatima at 21 and Ruquiyya at 23. Besides, Hazrat Abu Bakr, Aisha’s father, married off his eldest daughter Asma at the age of 26.

Hazrat Aisha narrates that she was present on the battlefield at the Battle of Badar (Muslim). This leads one to conclude that Hazrat Aisha moved into the Prophet’s house in 1 A.H. But a nine-year-old could not have been taken on a rough and risky military mission.

In 2 A.H, the Prophet refused to take boys of less than 15 years of age to the battle of Uhud. Would he have allowed a 10-year-old girl to accompany him? But Anas reported that he saw Aisha and Umme Sulaim carrying goatskins full of water and serving it to the soldiers (Bukhari). Umme Sulaim and Umme Ammara, the other women present at Uhud, were both strong, mature women whose duties were the lifting of the dead and injured, treating their wounds, carrying water in heavy goatskins, supplying ammunition and even taking up the sword.

Hazrat Aisha used the kunniat, the title derived from the name of a child, of Umme Abdullah after her nephew and adopted son.
If she was six when her nikah was performed, she would have been only eight years his senior, hardly making him eligible for adoption. Also, a little girl could not have given up on ever having her own child and used an adopted child’s name for her kunniat.

Hazrat Aisha’s nephew Urwah once remarked that he was not surprised about her amazing knowledge of Islamic law, poetry and history because she was the wife of the Prophet and the daughter of Abu Bakr. If she was eight when her father migrated, when did she learn poetry and history from him?

There is consensus that Hazrat Aisha was 10 years younger than her elder sister Asma, whose age at the time of the hijrah, or migration to Madina, was about 28. It can be concluded that Hazrat Aisha was about 18 years old at migration. On her moving to the Prophet’s house, she was a young woman at 21. Hisham is the single narrator of the hadith whose authenticity is challenged, for it does not correlate with the many historical facts of the time.

The writer is a scholar of the Quran and writes on contemporary issues.
nilofar.ahmed58@gmail.com

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It reiterates my view that the age mentioned in Saheeh Bukhari is incorrect.

 

[sur]

This program "Zabta-e-Hayat" impressively discussed the issue of polygamy, especially lady in black explained things elaborately ,,, it's benefits & responsibilities that come with it ...
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[Pak47]

Thanks for posting this.. helps a lot.. saved link