The job of the scholars

 

The Quran does not mention the punishment in the grave. The Quran does not mention women wearing hijab all over their bodies. The Quran does not mention stoning to death for forbidden sexual acts. The name of Prophet Ibrahim's second wife is nowhere mentioned in the Quran. The name of which son Prophet Ibrahim went to sacrifice is also not mentioned in the Quran. The Quran also does not mention that Muslim boys should be made Muslim, nor how many times they should pray. Yet, these are the words that our country's scholars say the most. When they are asked why they say these things, they give references to Hadiths. Most of those Hadiths are also not authentic. The authentic Hadiths are called Sahih Hadiths, which they themselves have declared to be Sahih or authentic.

The first writer of that Sahih Hadith was Imam Bukhari, who was a Turk/Persian by nationality, who was born in Bukhara, Khorasan, which is located in present-day Uzbekistan. Imam Bukhari was born 240 years after the birth of Prophet Muhammad. Imam Bukhari's collection of hadiths does not contain any other written hadith references, but rather the life and speech of a person from a different country and culture 280 years ago, as narrated by various people. Just think about it, can you find out the life and speech of a person from your own family 280 years ago without any written references? In fact, you cannot even find out their name. Let us give an example of what that authentic hadith is like. In hadith number 3570 of Sahih Bukhari, it is narrated from "Nu'a'im ibn Hammad (may Allah have mercy on him) ... Amr ibn Maimun (may Allah have mercy on him) that he said, "I saw in the era of ignorance (pre-Islam), a female monkey who committed adultery, and many monkeys gathered around her and stoned her to death. I also stoned her with them." (Sahih Bukhari, Islamic Foundation)

This means that the companions narrated in Sahih Bukhari saw a female monkey committing adultery. For that reason, the other monkeys judged the female monkey and stoned the adulterer to death. He himself participated in killing the sinful female monkey by throwing stones.

The job of the scholars is to always find a way to synthesize religion and morality with the reality of eating, wearing and living and the path that the economy and society are taking. The complexity and dynamics of the current society will never match the society of one and a half thousand years ago. This matching work is the job of the scholars and imams. Instead of getting close to it, they memorized countless books of absurd and fabricated words and were busy creating a stupid society by scaring people. The job of the scholars and imams is never to ferry religion. Their job is to walk around the area in the interaction of religion and current life and guide people to the path of morality.

The same applies to universities and teachers. Reality always moves ahead of acquired knowledge. The job of universities and teachers is to always create a path for synthesizing knowledge with the path that the economy, society, politics, production system and nature, that is, the casual reality of society, move forward. The job of universities and teachers is never to ferry knowledge or distribute knowledge. What he knows is old, his job is to travel around the area and give society a path to a knowledge-based lifestyle through the interaction of acquired knowledge and the present. Instead of doing that, by memorizing and distributing knowledge, they are also trying to create a stupid society to a large extent.

It is worth noting here that most of the hadiths compiled by Imam Bukhari and other writers 240 years after the birth of Prophet Muhammad were written under the influence of the strict rules and regulations based on the Jewish Talmud that were prevalent in the countries of Central Asia, not in Arabia, during the time of Prophet Muhammad, which is why they are so contradictory to the Quran.

Sirajul Hossain