حساب زیست کا بس اتنا سا گوشوارھ ھے۔ تمہیں نکال کے دیکھا باقی سب خسارھ ھے

کبھی کبھی سوچتا ہوں کے اگر ہم مسلمانوں کی زندگی سے کافروں کو نکال دیا جائے تو ہمارا معاشرہ کیا منظر پیش کرے گا ؟ سواری کے لیے اونٹ خچچر اور گھوڑے استعمال کئیے جایا کریں گے، کیسا عجیب منظر ہوگا کمپنی کا ڈائیریکٹر خچچر پر سوار ہو کر آفس آیا کرے گا، مینجر حضرات اونٹ یا گھوڑے پر سوار ہو کر آیا کریں گے ، ہم جسے تو پیدل ہی جایا کریں گے آفس ، کام کی نوعیت بھی بدل جائے گی، کمپیوٹر پر ای میل کے بجائے کبوتر کے پر سے خط لکھے جایا کریں گے، کورئیر کمپنیز جہاز کے بجائے کبوتروں کے ذریے لیڑرز بھیجا کریں گی، کچی مٹی کی عمارتیں ہونگی تو زیادہ بلند بھی نہیں ہونگی اسلیے لفٹ کے استعمال کی بھی ضرورت محسوس نہیں ہوگی، بجلی ہی نہیں ہوگی تو تمام الیکٹرونکس آئیٹمز کی بھی ضرورت نہیں رہ جائے گی، گرمیوں میں ائیرکنڈیشنڈ اور ملّت فین کی جگھ ہمّت فین ہوا کرینگے جس کے ہاتھ میں جتنی طاقت اور ہمّت ہوگی وہ اتنی ہی زیادہ ہوا لیا کرے گا. چرخے سے کپڑا بنا جایا کرے گا ، ایک شپمنٹ گمان غالب ھے تقریبن تین سے چار سال میں یورپ پہنچ جایا کرے گی کتنی خوش حالی ہوجائے گی نہ ہر طرف، چپل سنگھا کر مرگی کا علاج ہوا کرے گا، کینسر اور دوسرے موزی امراض کے لیے ڈاکٹر بنگالی عامل سے جھاڑ پھونک کروائی جایا کرے گی، آپریشن کی تکلیف سے بھی نجات مل جائے گی ہمیں، جسے بھی موزی مرض لا حق ہوگا اسے جن بھوت کا سایا کہہ کر علاج کا خرچہ بچا لیا جایا کرے گا، آنکھوں میں موتیا نہیں پورا موتیا کا درخت اگ آیا کرے گا، موتیا کے معاملے میں ہم خود کفیل ہو جائیں گے ساری دنیا ہم سے مانگنے آیا کرے گی موتیا. جوانی میں حج کرنے کے لیے پچپن میں ہے خچچر پھ سوار ہو کر سفر پھ نکلنا ہوا کرے گا ، جوان بڑھاپے میں پہنچیں گے، اور بوڑھے حضرات کو تو سفر کے دوران ہی حج کی نیت کا ثواب مل جایا کرے گا، بغیر لاوڈ اسپیکر کے ملا حضرات مذہبی منافرت نہیں پھیلا پائیں گے، مولانا فضلل رحمان جو کے قوم کو دیکھانے کے لیئے کافروں کے خلاف ہیں اور غیرت پھر بھی نہیں آتی انہیں کے ان کے دل میں کافروں کی ہی ایجاد کردہ بیٹری لگی ہوئی ہے وہ بھی کافروں کا احسان لینے سے بچ جائیں گے، اور جلد اس دنیا سے رخصت ہو کر پوری پاکستانی قوم پر احسان عظیم کریں گے، کراچی والوں کو تو ہر روز حب ڈیم سے پانی بھر کے لانا پڑا کرے گا کیوں کے پانی سپلائی کرنے والی مشینیں ہی نہیں ہونگی، بار بار گھڑی دیکھ کر لوگوں کو انکی اوقات یاد دلانے سے بھی جان چھوٹ جائے گی قوم کی، سورج کی گردش سے ہی وقت کا اندازہ لگا لیا کریں گے، ایٹم بم کی جگھ ہمارے پاس منجنیق ھوتی انڈیا کے بم کے جواب میں ہم منجنیق سے پتھر برساتے جی تھری گن کی جگھ ہمارے فوجی جوانوں کے پاس تیر اور بھالے ھوتے اور ملا حضرات ہیمیں آج بھی یھ ہی تلقین کر رہے ھوتے ، مومن ھے تو بے تیغ بھی لٹرتا ھے سپاہی۔ پورے عرب کی زمین کے نیچے جو خزانے الله نے دیے ہیں جنھیں ہم تیل کہتے ہیں اسکی حیثیت بھی کیچڑ سے زیادہ نہیں ہوگی، پورا عرب دو ہزار دس میں بھی انیس سو پینسٹھ سے پہلے کا ہی منظر پیش کرے گا ، اگر کسی کو عرب کی ترقی دیکھنی ہو تو سعودیھ عرب کی انیس سو پینسٹھ سے پہلے کی تصویریں دیکھ لے سعودیھ عرب اور پورے عرب کی یھ بغیر پلر کی نام نہاد ترقی بھی کافروں کی ہی دین ہے، عرب کی زمین کے نیچے کیا کیا خزانے پوشیدہ ہیں یھ بھی انھیں کافروں نے ہی بتایا تھا. ورنہ ان کے لیے یہ تیل کیچڑ سے زیادہ کی اہمیت نہیں رکھتا تھا. کبھی سوچیے گا کے کافروں کو ہماری زندگی سے نکال دیا جائے تو کیا بچے گا ؟ نہ یھ کمپیوٹر بچے گا نہ یھ بلاگ بچے گا اور نھ ہی قوم کو آگاہی دینے والا کوئی بچے گا.

Some Basic Principles in the Qur’an

Now a very important question arises. Most people do not have sufficient knowledge of the Qur’an, so how can they test a hadith according to it? The answer is made simple by the fact that the Qur’an establishes some fundamental rules. Keeping these rules in mind can empower us to assess the authenticity of our history and hadith. Briefly, the principles are:
􀂙 􀂙 The Law of Requital (Qur’an 99:7): As you sow, so shall you reap. Hence, reward and punishment are natural consequences of our own actions. Any contrary statement will be non-Qur’anic. God
is not emotional. Therefore he does not reward and punish if happy or angry.
􀂙 􀂙 No person can be held responsible for, or share the burden of another (53:38).
􀂙 􀂙 On the authority of the Qur’an (33:21), Prophet Mohammad, the Exalted, was a model human being with the best character and conduct. No action of his was contrary to the Qur’an.
􀂙 􀂙 About the companions of the Holy Prophet, the Qur’an (8:74, 9:100) tells us that Allah was pleased with them and they were pleased with Him. They were staunch and practical believers.
􀂙 􀂙 The Qur’an repeatedly impresses upon us that the Laws of God never change (48:23). Hence, people do not fly in the air or walk on water.
􀂙 􀂙 The Qur’an is the last Message of God and Mohammad (SA) is his final Messenger. Religion has been perfected (5:3, 6:34, 15:9, 75:17) and therefore anyone claiming Revelation after him, in any form, will be either insane or an impostor.
Exercising Common Sense
Dear Reader, we have underscored the six Qur’anic principles which should always stand as our guide. In addition, exercise of common sense can easily tell us that a certain narrative should not be ascribed to the most knowledgeable man who ever walked this earth. In fact, according to the Qur’an, people who do not use their faculties of hearing, sight and thinking cannot be Muslims and are living the life of cattle (7:179). The Holy Prophet said, “All goodness is linked to wisdom. One who has lost wisdom will not retain religion.” Therefore, any narrative that falls into one of the following categories cannot be considered authentic:
1. 1. Any hadith that insults the Holy Prophet.
2. 2. Any hadith that disrespects the holy companions because they were chosen by the best judge of people.
3. 3. The Holy Messenger was the most revolutionary personality in history. He changed the future of mankind. Therefore any ahadith portraying him as a storyteller, soothsayer, a man preoccupied with women, excessive prayers, spending half his life on the prayer rug and the other half in bed, these traditions must be considered false.
4. 4. Any narrative based upon outright ignorance and against common observation cannot be a saying of the Holy Prophet. For example, “No animal is born with deformities” or “Looking at a beautiful face sharpens the eye.”
Now we have reached the point where we can present with great respect a sample of those ahadith that are in accordance with the Qur’an. Each of these ahadith can be checked in the light of the basic Qur’anic rules that we have outlined.

Hadith Denier, a propaganda against being critical of the reporters

Linguistically the word hadith in Arabic has multiple meanings and usages, such as “quotation”, “narrative”, “story”, “incidence”, “experience”, or “tradition”. In the Islamic terminology, the word hadith indicates quotations of the Exalted Messenger Mohammad, our salutes on him. There are numerous books containing 100s and 1000s of ahadith or quotations that have been assigned to the Holy Prophet. According to a famous Islamic scholar, Abdul Haq Muhaddis Dehlawi, the number of recognized books of ahadith is more than fifty, which embrace more than one million quotations. But even the most authentic books are not free from narratives that have been wrongly attributed to the Holy Prophet.
An Important Principle
It must be born in mind that the following two situations are as different as black and white:
1) 1) “Quotation of the Holy Prophet” will mean something the Prophet actually said
and
2) 2) “A quotation attributed to the Holy Prophet”
It is easy to understand that no true Muslim can disagree with the first situation. Anyone questioning or being skeptical about situation number two will not be denying the Holy Messenger’s word. What he is saying is that Mohammad, our salutes on him, would not have said this and the narrator is in error. Such a person cannot be accused of being a denier of hadith. He is being critical of the reporters.
Another Important Point
Even non-Muslim scholars such as Bernard Shaw, Sir William Muir and Thomas Carlysle agree that the Holy Qur’an is the Word of God and that it was committed to writing during the life of the Exalted Messenger. The Qur’an bears internal evidence to that effect when it begins, “This is a book in which there is no doubt.” (And it removes all doubt.) On the other hand, the collections of ahadith were compiled after Mohammad (SA) passed on and in most cases, the interval encompasses centuries.
How Do We Check the Authenticity of Ahadith?
All ahadith have been written through chains of narrators. These chains comprise of several links of reporters, in many instances, more than ten. When our scholars sit down to check on a reported hadith, their research begins and ends at one point. That is whether the narrator is reliable or not. People named in a particular hadith, were they real or fictitious, when were they born, why were they born, where did a particular storyteller live, when did he die, what was his temperament, how good was his memory, was his beard long enough, was he the son of a bondwoman, or his mother was divorced. One was caught listening to music. Another one was seen drinking date-wine. He was seen drinking water with his left hand, and another was conducting ablution with the right hand, etc.
Dr. Henry Springer of Austria, and Dr.John Gibbs of Britain, the great orientalists, noted this massive chaos among Muslim scholarship. They comment that Muslim scholars proudly claim that they have preserved the names of 500,000 narrators. The dilemma is that the same narrator who is perfectly reliable in the eyes of two scholars is totally unreliable and curseworthy according to ten others. Muslim scholars, for centuries, have been going through this mental punishment. They might well have invented 500,000 gods.
Sectarianism in Islam
A simple observation of books written by our historians and muhadditheen makes it plain that these are the people behind sectarian divisions in Islam. The narrators of one sect are called fabricators by another. To view the picture at a large scale, just one example will be enough: while Sunnis consider Bukhari and Muslim ahadith as the most authentic books, Shias reject that notion and consider Nehjul Balagha and Al-Kafi as the most trustworthy sources.
Criteria of Authenticity
Let us briefly examine what criteria scholars have used to examine the massive body of ahadith:
1) 1) The most common practice has been a review and critique of the narrators. I prefer to call it post-mortem scholastic exam. The impossibility of the success of this approach has already been discussed briefly.
2) 2) Many Sufis try to authenticate or dismiss history and tradition based upon clairvoyance or kashf and ilham. The best example of this phenomenon is provided by Shah Waliullah, who in the 18th century compiled forty ahadith stating that the Holy Prophet came to him and said this and did that. He took one step further when he tried to portray his meeting with the Holy Prophet as a physical experience. He claims to have retained some hair from the Holy Prophet during these imaginary visits. What is more amazing is that hundreds of Islamic scholars have promoted these experiences of Waliullah with reverence. Even a title has been given to these supposed forty encounters: “The 40 Pearls”.
3) 3) Evaluation of a hadith could not escape the mysterious “Ilmul Manam”, which means the “Knowledge of Dreams”. Many Mullas and Sufis claimed to have seen the Prophet and his companions in their dreams and received their guidance. They also ventured to interpret their own dreams and kashf to help sort and sift various ahadith. The Andalusi (Moorish Spain) school under the leadership of Sheikh Moinuddin Ibne Arabi, played in this field according to their own rules.
4) 4) Another criterion was projected by claimants to prophethood. This is well illustrated by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian. He claimed visits from angels of revelation during the last 19 years of his life. He presented his “revelations” as equally authentic and authoritative as the Holy Qur’an and called the whole body of ahadith a “magician’s bag”. He said, “Anything can be taken out or thrown away from this magician’s bag.”
5) 5) The knowledge of asma arrajal. In the first few centuries, numerous Muslim and non-Muslim scholars tried to devise scientific means of analyzing the one million ahadith. Many modern scholars believe that they completely failed in their pursuit. Without going into much detail it is enough to realize that Imam Bukhari, considered the greatest muhaddith of all-time, reportedly came across 600,000 Prophetic sayings and using his own judgement, kept 2,800, and discarded the rest. The Imam Kallini collection, Al-Kafi, out of a similar number chose 16,000 but the book itself claims that only 5,000 of these can be considered trustworthy. No one has had the courage to venture into naming those 5,000. In short, the science of asma arrajal is not a science at all. It is mere conjecture. All it deals with is whether a particular hadith has one narrator or
multiple, does the chain have any weak links, do any of the reporters believe in a different school of thought, and so on.
6) 6) The most popular Mulla of the 20th century, Maudoodi, came out with his own branded principle. He claimed that the only rightful scholar who can research a hadith would be the one who would inherently be mizaj shenase Rasul, someone who understands the mindset of the Holy Prophet. In other words, any hadith that Maudoodi would feel authentic should be considered as such.
7) 7) The end result of the above criteria used so far is that they have failed to bring up unanimity and agreement between scholars and sects of Islam. Therefore, different scholars and sects and even the masses tend to accept only those ahadith that fit into their dogmas and reject those that are otherwise.