ساٴل و تفسير
Question and Answer
By: Triple A (أحمد عبد ٱلأول)
Brother X, 11/21/2007
Maasha Allah Brother Ahmed I am glad to hear from you again and if you could drop a line when you get time. It is a wonderful website and may Allah reward you for the Da'awa part of the website, because you never know who might read and get guidance from it. Job well done.
Triple A, 11/23/2007
Salaamun Alaykum:
A nice surprise hearing from you Akhiy. I appreciate your signing the Guest Book and your comments; feedback is the bricks that help build the house. So what has been going on with you, and I hope you and the family are fine? Now you have to bring me up to date with this "xxxxxxxxxx.com", what's the 411 on that?
Things are going well on my end, enjoying the lazy life, but taking advantage of the time. Still dabbling with the computers, relaxing the the ivories (piano), and learning from Allaah.
Stay in touch and here is my digit #/###-####, I know you're busy with family & career so when you get a chance.
The following was after the 11/21/2007 publishing of "Weeping" on this web site.
Brother X, 11/26/2007:
1. Your website seems to suggest the religion should only be the Quran and nothing else, thus excluding the Sunna or the ahadeeth out of Islam. My brother if you can not accept what Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be On Him) said and did I can not understand how you understand the Quran, since the Sunna of the Prophet (PBOH) explains. Also how could you even accept Quran itself since it was revealed through Muhammad (PBOH). We will discuss this more when we talk Iinsha Allah.
2. My second point is that your website is suggesting sisters in Islam are oppressed which is what the media in this country preaches day in day out. But if you go back to this society that we live in rapes happen in every so many minutes of every day, I do not believe people consider this society as oppressing women. My brother to criticize the Hijjab is to criticize some verses in the Quran that Allah ordered Women of Islam to cover their body from strangers and this was not new in Islam, some Christians even practice the Hijjab as of today namely the Nuns, and as you know women in these society used to cover them selves before the so called feminist movement which we know was anti all religions. Again my Brother I like to talk to you and I will call you as early as possible.
Triple A, 11/26/2007:
Salaamun Alaykum:
Akhiy, you have no idea how glad I was to read your reply. The issues you cited give me an indication of how my information is being perceived, without feedback such as yours I would have no idea if I am getting through to the readers the true message/s that I am trying to impart. I do look forward to our talking on the phone soon.
Salaamun Kathiyrun,
WWW.Baridi.Com/Question and Answer (published) 11/28/2007:
1. Please, refer to “My Islaam” where parts of your concerns are dealt with, though not directly. Regarding “religion should only be the Quran”, from the perspective of “Islaama Diynan”, you are correct, that is what I believe. Allaah said in Al Qur’aan 5:3 that this diyn is perfected and completed, therefore everything that we need - that is of necessity - to find favor with our Lord, to save us from the hellfire, and gain us entrance to the paradise is contained in Al Qur’aan. It was true then and it remains so today and will be so in the future. All the sun’a and hadiyth that we need are within the one hundred fourteen Surah’s of Al Qur’aan. Did Allaah not say in Al Qur’aan 2:2, “this is The Decree with nothing doubtful in it and is guidance to the ones who are reverent of him”? I have not found anything in Al Qur’aan that I have not been able to understand or needed outside illumination from, granted there are historical details that have been omitted however, I trust Allaah, and if they were necessary, they would have been included. To seek additional information on specific details is a worthy endeavor, but not having the knowledge of them would in no way leave me feeling as if my Lord has left me lacking in anything I need to please him. As far as “how could I even accept Quran itself since it was revealed through Muhammad”? That part of your question is moot since as you have already suggested it appears that I am willing to rely upon Al Qur’aan exclusively, but to elaborate just a bit on the subject, I need nothing other than Al Qur’aan to convince me of Al Qur’aan! In Al Qur’aan in 75:19 Allaah answers the question of explaining Al Qur’aan and that is satisfactory for me.
2. If our sisters’ in Al Islaam are having restrictions imposed upon them in the name of “Al Islaam” then those directives should be found in Al Qur’aan because Al Islaam is from Allaah, and Allaah know best. Nevertheless, to address your concern over hijaab I would like to submit this question to you, which aayaat/s in Al Qur’aan – am I criticizing that - speak of hijaab as the criterion for our sisters’ manner of dressing? It may be that you are referring to dressing modestly, guarding ones private parts, and if that is what you are referring to then the criterion is the same for males as well as females as Al Qur’aan 24:30 & 31 aptly states. Consequentially if the hijaab is a manner of dressing for females then it is also for males since Allaah does not distinguish between the two in 24:30 & 31. However, females have additionally been directed by Allaah to cover their bosom. Would you not agree that the same modesty a female should display – regarding 24:31 – is the same type of modesty we males should be expected to display? I think you would. If by hijaab you are specifically referring to the veil, then again I have to ask, which aayaat in Al Qur’aan does Allaah command our sisters’ to wear it? I am not overwhelmingly concerned about what the “media in this country chooses to preach day in and day out” since they are apparently comfortable with the wholesale disrespecting of women. It is not only this country, but society in general is anti-religion, therefore I do not consider their opinions worthy of addressing. What they would like to see is Al Islaam changed to is a if it feels good do it diyn. However, my concern is about following the word of God as contained in Al Qur’aan and not introducing things in this diyn - which Allaah did not include - and then calling it the Islaamic way, as if it has to be done because Allaah commanded it. As for the Nuns and their manner of dress, have you not seen that it too has changed radically over the years?
Akhiy, you did not submit your concerns through the comments page of my web site and I suspect you did not because; we personally know each other, and/or you were being respectful, and I appreciate both. I am including your comments and concerns to my web site so we all can benefit from them. I hope I have addressed and answered your concerns and questions adequately, and respectfully, and maybe I have posed some questions that may be helpful. I am not an authority on Al Islaam – only Allaah is - and I hope that is not the impression that visitors to my web site receive from me. I am a learner, and the more I learn the more I know I need to continue to learn, and my irrefutable source is the word of God, Al Qur’aan. Whatever I believe I have learned from Al Qur’aan and my studying I wish to share, that is what I believe Allaah wants all of us to do, and that is in keeping with the Islaamic way.
Brother X, 11/28/2007:
Assalamu Aliekum Warahmatu Laahi Wabarakaatuhu.
Brother Ahmed, I have email those talking points so we can discuss on the phone as Brothers whom knew each other and I have not submitted for the general public. So please take them down from your website as I know your knowledge in Islam is very limited so I would not have posted any questions to you when the learned Imams are out there. Again what I was trying was to communicate with you a concern and I was not trying to debate with you since both of us lack enough knowledge about Islam to debate. As of your question to me you probably know the answer as you are Internet savvy, but incase you didn’t come across these Aayas here they are:
“O you Children of Adam! We have bestowed on you raiment to cover your shame as well as to be an adornment to you. But the raiment of righteousness, that is the best. Such are among the Signs of Allah, that they may receive admonition.” (Quran 7:26)
“And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what must ordinarily appear therof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands' fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers, or their brothers' sons or their sisters' sons, or their women or the servants whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex, and that they should not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments. And O you Believers, turn you all together towards Allah, that you may attain Bliss.” (Quran 24:31).
“O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks close round them (when they go abroad). That will be better, so that they may be recognized and not annoyed. Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful.” (Quran 33:59)
My Brother to you Cloaks Close round them might be a Tent to you but this is the command of Allah and a lot of our sisters wear it every day out of choice and obedience to Allah.
My brother my point about the Prophet Muhammad PB On him and how could ignore all of his Sunna and then turn around and say but I will take what Allah has revealed to him is not Moot but is one that surprises me. My brother the path that you are on now which is denying the Sunna is one that is already being taken by a misguided Moslems in this country so it is not some thing that you have invented. My final point to you is learn the Quran by first learning the language it was revealed with so you can better understand what you are saying and again I am not debating I am trying to point some thing to you.
My brother I could not point out all the concern I have about your website but these were points that I was trying to discuss with you as to start the conversation.
May Allah Guide us
Triple A, 11/29/2007:
Salaamun Alaykum Akhiy:
I think I understood where you were coming from and that is why I stated towards the end of Q & A that I appreciate what I thought were your reasons for not submitting your points in the comments. However, some of those same points might be on the mind of others so I included them in the web site, but omitted your name & e-mail address for the sake of privacy.
I am aware of the aayatun you replied with, 24:31 is the one I was referring to when I said “However, females have additionally been directed by Allaah to cover their bosom”. Aayaat 33:59 does tell the sisters’ to cover themselves when they go abroad however, it does not command them to wear a burqa. Is it wrong to wear a burqa, no it is not, but I believe it is wrong to impose it upon the sisters’ as if its wearing is a commandment from Allaah. I believed you were referring to what I wrote in “Weeping” and took exception to it, however, I did say “Who must wear” and not “who wear”.
You and I debating, that is no more than conversing on a particular topic or topics of interest and frankly I think it is healthy. It is mentally healthy to share our thoughts and beliefs with one another, it helps us to grow by strides rather than by baby steps. Will we agree, not always, maybe sometimes, and maybe never, but my goal is to continue to learn and I do not feel one has to agree with something to be able to learn from it.
I do not know how much of what is on my web site you have already read but I try to go into detail to explain my beliefs and why I have them, again, see “My Islaam”, and also “My Journey” if you have not read them yet.
“I know your knowledge in Islam is very limited”, “My brother the path that you are on now which is denying the Sunna is one that is already being taken by a misguided Moslems in this country”, “My final point to you is learn the Quran by first learning the language it was revealed with so you can better understand what you are saying”, three assumptions on your part, of which you are entitled to. However, if I understand you correctly then a conversation would merely be us agreeing with everything each of us says. That is mental atrophy rather than the mental stimulation which I am aiming for, which is why I question whether you had read most of what is on my web site, irrespective of agreeing or not.
It appears to me that your goal is to un-misguide me since my knowledge of Islaam is very limited, and I do not even know the language the Qur’aan was revealed in, an admirable goal but, assumptions on your part because you do not agree with me. However, your feeling that way is no problem for me and I do not think it would adversely influence how I would be, if we were conversing on the telephone instead.
Salaam Akhiy,
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