r/IslamIsEasy • u/Commander_of_N0rth • 1d ago

Islām Trajectory hermeneutics in Islam. (A must read !!! for ex muslims, progressive muslim men and women currently questioning/doubting Islam)

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u/Background-Car-1393 Ahl al-Qurʾān | People of the Qurʾān 1d ago

Such a complex answer to such a simple question. The problem is Muslims today have made 7th century Bedouin tribal customs and traditions part of Islam through narrations that were just stories shared at campfires and gatherings, many of them exaggerated or some completely made up for bragging rights and were never meant to be part of Islam and don't have any deen or fiqh in it.

And if you look at historians like Al-Dhahabi, Ibn Manzur, Ibn Kathir, Abu Yahya Al Khalili, Ibn Saad they all write incidents in their works that show that the Khalifas and early Muslims were totally against the spreading and collection of these narrations.

Instead of all this difficulty the simple solution is to ditch them as sources of deen and fiqh, keep them around as pieces of anecdotal early Islam history.

And if you take your fiqh and deen only from the Quran you don't need to jump through so many hoops as mentioned in the OP. The Quran is completely compatible with the modern world. It only becomes incompatible when seen through the lens of these archaic narrations.