Page 103 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

than the Book of God (The Holy Qur'an)?" reproached the

Messenger of God. "The nations who came before you were
misled only when they recorded books besides the Book of
God." (The Prohibition of Recording the Hadith, Causes
and Effects, Sayyid Ali Al-Shahristani; Musnad Ahmad
ibn Hanbal 3:12-13; Al-Khatib al-Baghdadiy; Taqyid al-
'Ilm, 33; Al-Haythamiy, Majma 'al Zawa'id 1:151)

O people! The Fire is blazed, and sedition is coming like
the waves of the dusky night! By God you can lay nothing
to my charge. I have surely made lawful only what the
Qur'an has made lawful and have prohibited only what
the Qur'an has prohibited. (Sirat ibn Hisham, Biography
of the Prophet, Al-Falah Foundation, p. 286)

Salman narrated: "The Messenger of God…. said: 'The
lawful is what God made lawful in His Book, the unlawful

is what God made unlawful in his Book, and what He was
silent about; then it is among that for which He has par-
doned." (Jami at-Tirmidhi, Volume 3, p. 456 Hadith no:
1726; Sunan Abu Dawud)

From the hadith above we can readily conclude the following: it
is obvious that our Prophet (pbuh) did not make anything unlawful

other than what the Qur'an prescribes as unlawful. Consequently,
those who make additions to the Qur'an by means of hadith and
those who make up unlawful things by using the hadith are not
telling the truth. This also holds true for those who, resorting to
hadith, try to legitimize what is unlawful – for instance, violence –

and proclaim it lawful.

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