Monday, 2 May 2016

Qur'an Challenge to Shaykh Atabek and Sulaiman

You (Shaykh Atabek and Sulaiman) claim to be true Hanafis. You reject sahih hadiths because they don't meet you own "ethics" or "logic" or your interpretation of the Qur'an. You also reject beliefs and laws of the Hanafi madhab, and the beleifs and laws over which there is ijma (consensus), because of the aforementioned reasoning.
I write this post to challenge both Shaykh Atabek Shukurov and his student Sulaiman Ahmed. Previous posts in this blog and others, have still not been answered.
I ask you to answer the following also:

"You claim that only the Qur'an is guaranteed to be preserved, not the hadiths or rest of Islam. Thus when you interpret and understand the Qur'anic verses and reject the explanations based on hadiths (because you reject those sahih hadiths), you base your interpretation on linguistic evidences (including jahili poetry, which is generally based on weak transmissions) and dictionaries and grammatical evidences.
However these dictionaries, grammatical works and linguistic works were written many, many years after the Sahaba, and are nowhere as authenticated as the hadiths (how authentic are the isnads for the dictionaries, grammatical and linguistic points, transmissions and works?). If you reject sahih hadiths (sahih based on isnad and considered sahih by most of the masters of Hadiths) because they don't meet your own "ethics" or "logic" or your interpretation of the Qur'an, then logically it means you have to reject all the linguistic and grammatical transmissions, dictionaries, works and evidences that are required for understanding the Qur'an.
Once you reject these, then the Qur'an is no longer considered preserved, since you don't know the Arabic that existed at the time of the sahaba, so you don't know what the Qur'an means. Your reasoning and methodology is logically fallacious and destroys Islam. It also shows that you are a pseudo-Hanafi who has founded a jahili sect called Atabekism.
How do you answer this?"

The true Hanafi methodology is to understand the Qur'an in light of the Sahih Hadiths and Sunnah and ijma. An interpretation of the Qur'an which clearly contradicts the sahih hadiths, sunnah and ijma, is rejected.
For each sahih hadith that Atabek rejects in the name of "Hanafi principles", one just needs to ask whether the great Hanafi Hadith masters like al-Ayni rejected those Hadiths? If they didn't (and they generally didn't), then it shows that Atabek isn't a true Hanafi but is an Atabekite, which is a mix of Mu'tazili principles with Shaytanic nafs.

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