Qur'an alone Muslims, Qur'anic Muslims, or sometimes Anti-Hadith Muslims, is a term used to refer to Muslims who reject hadith, or reported traditions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and follow the Qur'an, a sacred text of Islam, exclusively.

[edit] Name

Many Qur'an alone Muslims^[who?] consider themselves as "true Muslims" and do not distinguish themselves as Sunni or Shia or any other sect. These Muslims request to be called simply "Muslims" and refer to all others as "Sunni Muslims" or "Shia Muslims", etc. ^[1]^[2]^[3]^{[verification needed]}

[edit] Qur'anist / Qur'an Alone groups

[edit] The Ahle Qur'an

"Ahle Qur’an", a group formed by Abdullah Chakralawi,^{[citation needed]} rely entirely on the chapters and verses of the Qur’an. Chakralawi's position was that the Qur’an itself was the most perfect source of tradition and could be exclusively followed. According to him, Muhammad could receive only one form of revelation (wahy), and that was the Qur'an. He argues that the Qur'an was the only record of divine wisdom, the only source of Muhammad's teachings, and that it superseded the entire corpus of hadith.^[4]

[edit] Bazm-e-Tolu-e-Islam

Main article: Tolu-e-Islam

Tolu-e-Islam ("Resurgence of Islam") is an organization based in Pakistan, with followers throughout the world.^[5] The movement was initiated by Ghulam Ahmed Pervez, a Qur'anic scholar. In his writings and speeches, he re-interpreted Qur'anic verses with little or no emphasis on hadith.^{[citation needed]} Tolu-e-Islam followers do not reject all hadiths; however, they only accept hadiths which "are in accordance with the Quran or do not stain the character of the Prophet or his companions".^[5] The organization is loosely controlled. The organization publishes and distributes books, pamphlets, and recordings of Pervez's teachings.^[5]

[edit] United Submitters International

Main article: United Submitters International

The term is closely associated with the late Rashad Khalifa, founder of the United Submitters International They follow the Qur'an alone. The group popularized the phrase: the Qur'an, the whole Qur'an, and nothing but the Qur'an.^[6] After Khalifa declared himself a messenger of God, he was rejected as an apostate of Islam. He was assassinated in 1990. Beside following the Qur'an-only philosophy they also believe that there is a mathematical structure in the Qur'an based on the number 19.^[7]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

^ Quran: The Final Testament (Authorized English Version) With Arabic Text, ISBN:978-1881893035
^ www.submission.org/messenger/lies.html
^ www.submission.org/islam/Islam-American.html
^ Ahmad, Aziz, Islamic Modernism in India and Pakistan 1857-1964, Oxford University Press, 1967, pp 120-121
^ ^a ^b ^c Bazm-e-Tolu-e-Islam
^ Hardy, Michael; William Pleasant (1987). The Honorable Louis Farrakhan: A Minister for Progress. New York: New Alliance Publications. p. 44.
^ Haddad, Yvonnne Yazbeck; Jane Idleman Smith (1993). Mission to America: Five Islam Sectarian Communities in North America. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. p. 137.

[edit] Further reading

Daniel Brown, Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought ISBN 0-521-65394-0
Aisha Y. Musa, Hadith as Scripture: Discussions on the Authority of Prophetic Traditions in Islam, New York: Palgrave, 2008 ISBN 0230605354

[edit] External links

[0] Quran: The Final Testament (Authorized English Version) With Arabic Text, ISBN:978-1881893035

[1] www.submission.org/messenger/lies.html

[2] www.submission.org/islam/Islam-American.html

[3] Ahmad, Aziz, Islamic Modernism in India and Pakistan 1857-1964, Oxford University Press, 1967, pp 120-121

[toluislam-4] Bazm-e-Tolu-e-Islam

[5] Hardy, Michael; William Pleasant (1987). The Honorable Louis Farrakhan: A Minister for Progress. New York: New Alliance Publications. p. 44.

[6] Haddad, Yvonnne Yazbeck; Jane Idleman Smith (1993). Mission to America: Five Islam Sectarian Communities in North America. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. p. 137.

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