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Qur'an alone Muslims, Qur'anic Muslims or sometimes, anti-hadith Muslims are those Muslims who reject hadith, or recorded Islamic traditions, and follow the Qur'an, Islam's sacred text, without any further additions. However, some Muslims who follow the Quran alone say that they are simply "Muslims", and not "Qur'anites".

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[edit] Qur'an Alone Groups

[edit] The Ahle Qur'an

"Ahle Qur’an", a group formed by Abdullah Chakralawi, rely entirely on the chapter and verse of the Qur’an. Chakralawi's position was that the Qur’an itself was the most perfect source of tradition and could be exclusively followed. According to him, the Prophet Muhammad could receive only one form of revelation (wahy), and that was the Qur’an. He argues that the Qur'an was the only record of divine wisdom, the only source of the Prophet’s teaching, and that it superseded the entire corpus of hadith [1].

[edit] Bazm-e-Tolu-e-Islam

Main article: Tolu-e-Islam

(English: Resurgence of Islam) is a Pakistani based organization whose followers can be found throughout the world. The movements was initiated by Ghulam Ahmed Pervez, a Qur'anic scholar. Focusing on Qur'anic teachings, he was willing to re-interpret Qur'anic verses and place little or no emphasis on hadiths. Unlike some other groups, Tolu-e-Islam followers do not reject all hadiths, however, they only accept hadiths who "are in accordance with the Holy Quran" and "do not blemish the personality of the Holy Prophet and / or his companions". The organization is loosely controlled, although it publishes books, pamphlets, and recordings of Pervez's speeches.

[edit] United Submitters International

Main article: United Submitters International

The term is closely associated with the late Rashad Khalifa, a member of the United Submitters International. While the USI do not refer to themselves as "Muslim" or claim to be "Islamic," they follow the Quran alone. The group popularized the phrase: the Qur'an, the whole Qur'an, and nothing but the Qur'an. After Khalifa declared himself a messenger of God, he was rejected as an apostate of Islam. He was assassinated in 1990. Beside following the Qur'an only philosophy they also believe that there is a mathematical structure in the Qur'an based on the number 19.

[edit] Dissident Submitters

Edip Yuksel left the USI in the early 1990s and later presented a petition claiming that the Submitters had lost devotion to God [1].

[edit] Non-organised Qur'anic Muslims

Those are Muslims who believe that hadiths are irrelevant in approaching a study to, or interpretation of, the Quran, and some of whom do not believe in other new messengers. One such group of Muslims who have a web presence can be found at their Free Minds website [2]. The majority of these groups place the emphasis on the Qur'an assuming that it has no abrogations and has no relation to Hadith whatsoever. Certain groups or individuals (particularly those influenced by Tolu-e-Islam) do accept Hadiths to certain levels as long as they do not contradict the Qur'an.

[edit] Opposing viewpoints

Shi'as, and some groups in the Sunni sect, have sometimes called Qur'an Alone Muslims Qur'aniyyun (قرآنيون), loosely translated as Qur'an people or Qur'anites. Most Sunnis and Shi'as agree that hadith are an integral part of understanding and implementing Islamic teachings. They argue that the Qur'an itself says that both Allah and the messenger (Muhammad) are to be obeyed, as no less than a dozen verses in the Qur'an stress obedience to Allah and the messenger.

Qur'an Alone Muslims respond by claiming that there is no verse in the Qur'an obliging obedience to Muhammad, but only his message. Even if obedience to Muhammad was substantiated, they argue that the hadith are not a suitable means through which this can occur due to its alleged forgery. Their claim comes from the notice that nowhere in the Quran it is said "Obey God and obey Muhammad", but always, what is stated is "Obey God and obey the messenger".

Some Sunni clerics have directed several fatwas [3] [4] against Qur'an Alone Muslims.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Ahmad, Aziz, Islamic Modernism in India and Pakistan 1857-1964, Oxford University Press, 1967, pp 120-121

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