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With the permission of Allah in many of my previous articles, I have explained about the meaning of Sunnah. All the actions of our Prophet Muhammad saw are known as Sunnah. Sunnah is to explain the Quran. Quran and Sunnah are both from Allah. Quran is the words of Allah which expound the wishes of Allah and Sunnah is the actions of the Prophet Muhammad directed by Allah to explain all the actions which should be done by Muslims in order to fulfill the wishes of Allah. In other word, Sunnah is the actions of Prophet Muhammad saw to explain the Quran. Prophet Muhammad saw had left us the Quran and the Sunnah and whoever among the Muslims who follow the Quran and Sunnah, they will always be guided on the correct path. Hadis is the words of Prophet Muhammad saw which explain about Sunnah. Hadis could be a true Hadis or it could be a false Hadis but none of the Sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad saw is a false Sunnah. There are many Hadis which are false Hadis and Muslims should not be practicing on whatever mention in false Hadis. Quran was written during the times of Hazrat Abu Bakar only a few years after the demise of our Prophet Muhammad saw but Hadis was written about two hundred years after the demise of Prophet Muhammad saw. I think one good reason why they are so many false Hadis is because Allah did not promise to guard the sanctity of the Hadis as Allah has taken the responsibility to guard the sanctity of the Quran. (more…)

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Many Muslims do not aware of the difference between the term Sunnah and Sunnat. Many Muslims think that the two words have the same meaning. Many Muslims know the word Sunnat but very few who knows and understand the word Sunnah. Many Muslims think that the word Sunnah also means Sunnat. When something is mentioned to be a Sunnah, many Muslims think that the Sunnah is also Sunnat to be practiced. When a practice is Sunnat, it means that the practice is not obligatory or Fardu to be practiced by the Muslims. A practice which is Sunnat can either be a practice which is recommended or highly recommended for Muslims to practice. Many Muslims men are having beard because they believe the practice of having beard is the Sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad saw. However there are many Muslims who do not know the Hukum of having beard is only Sunnat Muakkad or highly recommended to be practiced by Muslims. On the other hand according to the Indian Muslim who majority is following the Mazhab of Imam Hanafi, the practice of having beard is Wajib. However, the Hukum of Wajib in Mazhab Imam Hanafi is the same as Sunnat Muakkad or highly recommended practice in Mazhab Shafie. Some Muslims men are wearing turban and jubbah because they believe the practice is the Sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad saw. However many Muslims do not really know what the Hukum of wearing turban and jubbah is. The Hukum of wearing turban and jubbah is only Sunnat which is not Muakkad or recommended to be practiced by Muslims. There are some Muslims who are so particular in wearing turban and jubbah but they are not particular in observing the Sunnah which is Fardu or obligatory to be practiced by Muslims. (more…)

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How to deal with evils activities such as prostitution, gambling, alcoholism, drug addiction and so on in an Islamic country? What are the guidelines? How to eradicate these evils activities? Some Muslims are in the opinion that no evils activities should exist in Muslims countries. They are in the opinion that all evil activities are to be banned completely and immediately in Muslim countries. When those Muslims are in power, they will decree orders to close immediately all premises, which operate evils activities and will withdraw all licenses or permits, which allow such premises to operate. When they are in power, according to these Muslims, these are the only methods to be used to prevent evils. Is it true what they have done is the correct way to prevent evils with power? Is it true what they have done was also done by our Prophet Muhammad saw? One classical example to demonstrate on how these Muslims are eradicating evils practices with power, are shown by the actions of Taliban. Everyone knows who the Taliban are and what they did when they were in power in Afghanistan. Taliban believe many evils actions eminate or come from women and to them, women are the sources of many evils. According to Taliban, when women are allowed to go out and work, evils practices will increase. In order to prevent evils practices, women in Afghanistan were not allowed to work. Similarly according to the Taliban when women are allowed to go out of their homes without wearing purdah, women will seduce men into evil actions and in order to prevent evils, during the time of the Taliban, women in Afghanistan, when they were outside their homes were made compulsory to wear purdah with their faces completely covered. Taliban does not allow their girls and women to go to schools, colleges or universities and become educated as, to the Taliban educated women will be able to work outside their homes and to them, working women are the sources of many evils. (more…)

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