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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

Those Who Seek Commandments

outside the Qur'an Must Turn to the

Truth of the Faith

Thousands of fabricated, misreported and distorted hadiths,

interpreted in the light of individuals' own desires, are currently
regarded as the most important source of Islam. Islam has been
divided into four separate schools; in essence, four separate reli-
gions, each conflicting with one another, have been established.
Many of our Muslim brothers imagine that this is the truth of the

faith, apply it unknowingly and think that many untrustworthy
hadiths are actually true. This superstition, which represents the
main cause of so much conflict today, is the product of mindsets
that cannot agree with one another on the subject of the hadiths.
Let us remind ourselves of an important fact that we have already
seen, and that we shall frequently be repeating in this book; the

only complaint that our Prophet (pbuh) makes to our Lord in the
Qur'an is that the Qur'an has been set aside as an abandoned Book:

The Messenger says, "My Lord, my people treat this Qur'an as
something to be ignored." (Qur'an, 25:30)
If our Lord wished, of course He could place all of our

Prophet's (pbuh) words under protection, and these 1,400-year-old
sayings would have come down to us unchanged, just like the vers-
es of the Qur'an. However, the Qur'an by itself is sufficient for the
perfect implementation of Islam; indeed, all the practices of our
Prophet (pbuh) are in the Qur'an. That is why our Lord has protect-

ed the Qur'an and why it is sufficient for all Muslims. Since the
Qur'an is protected and immutable, the peddlers of superstition
have never been able to use it as a basis for their superstition, have

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