Who are the messengers of mohammed. Seriesly.
Posted on 05/29/2015 7:03:46 PM PDT by markomalley
“I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah,” is the shahadah, a declaration of faith for Muslims considered as one of the key pillars of Islam.
But how did this practice come about?
This was among the questions on the mind of Wan Sulaiman Wan Ismail, 53, when he sought clarification in 2013 from religious teachers.
Wan Sulaiman wanted to know why are there differences between some of the rituals Muslims currently practice — like the shahadah — and what was mentioned in the Quran.
The former businessman from Perak said he raised that question to several religious teachers, including scholars in the Ipoh mufti office, the Perak religious authorities and even state mosque imams. Many of these clerics, he said, were familiar with him as he met with them regularly for the past 15 years.
None, however, were able to answer him, so Wan Sulaiman stopped asking a year later.
But for seeking answers, Wan Sulaiman earned the attention of the Perak Islamic Religious Department (JAIP). He was summoned several times in 2014 by the authority, whose officers he claimed tried to dissuade him from posing his questions and to convince him to abandon several Quranic practices he has adopted.
The matter came to a head on January 21 this year when state religious enforcers raided his home in Ipoh and confiscated his handwritten personal notes, in addition to screening his personal computer and mobile phone.
On the same day, Wan Sulaiman was charged in the Ipoh Shariah High Court under Section 15 of the Perak Shariah Criminal Enactment 1992, with “mocking, ridiculing or insulting Quranic or hadith texts”.
According to a copy of his charge sheet sighted by Malay Mail Online, the Perak religious enforcers claimed that Wan Sulaiman possessed notes, some of which were hung on his wall, that allegedly “ridicule” the hadith — the collections of Prophet Muhammad’s sayings and deeds.
Wan Sulaiman, however, insisted that the notes were meant only for his personal use.
The prosecution also accused him of disputing authentic hadith for failing to interpret the Quran, and of rejecting the shahadah as taught by Muhammad by allegedly only accepting the first part.
He was also accused of translating the terms “fajar prayers” and “wusto prayers” by “using his own intellect without referring to the Prophet’s hadith”.
His case was set to be heard on May 21, but it was postponed to July 2. If guilty, Wan Sulaiman can be fined not more than RM5,000, jailed not more than three years, or both.
Wan Sulaiman’s family and friends are expected to hold a press conference today to raise funds for his case.
The shahadah is recited to reaffirm a Muslim’s belief and it is also recited to induct a convert into the faith.
In another ongoing blasphemy case, Muslim intellectual Kassim Ahmad was charged in March last year with allegedly insulting Islam and defying religious authorities by questioning the use of hadith to interpret the Quran.
The 82-year-old Kassim has since lodged a judicial review currently set to be heard in the Court of Appeal, but the Putrajaya Shariah High Court has refused an indefinite adjournment despite a stay order by the Kuala Lumpur High Court.
This will keep the muzzies in the dark and stop any future curious idiots.
Good thing he didn’t live here and ask questions about the “science” behind global warming. Now THAT’S bad.
if a Christian or a Jewish person were to ask questions like this of there faith they would be praised for making study of the bible or the torah The more devout Christians that I no have bibles that are riddled with notes and highlighting of specific passages.
Who are the messengers of mohammed. Seriesly.
16 years of Obama/Cinton and we’ll be there.
This is pretty much the state of affairs progressives wish upon Americans for daring to question the tenets of Political Correctness.
Don’t question the great and powerful Oz.
Reciting it even once by a non-believer is considered to be compulsory induction into Islam, IIRC.
Which is why, of course, liberal female public school administrators and teachers run mandatory "religious sensitivity" classes where all the students are forced to recite it.
Feminists - smiling handmaidens to tyrants the world over.
When you are dealing with people who have the I.Q. of a grapefruit, this is the kind of nonsense that you get.
The religion of cockroaches.
I’m protesting that post, bro.
>Snicker<
no introspection allowed no wonder so many kill themselves in the name of islam...introspection would have one questioning the imam who tells one to kill oneself while the imam doesn’t!
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Bid‘ah means “not following Islam’s path”, also translates as “innovation”.
There is no dog but dulllah and mutthamid is his prostitute.
If you condemn murder you condemn Mohammed.
If you condemn thievery you condemn Mohammed.
If you condemn rape you condemn Mohammed.
If you condemn pedophilia you condemn Mohammed.
If you condemn terrorism you condemn Mohammed.
If you condemn Mohammed you condemn Islam.
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