Sunni + Shia = One Ummah. Part 6.

Asalam u Alaikum, hope everyone is in good health Insh'Allah.

I think, a lot of us have by now, realised the increasing arguments over Sahih Hadith and the most trustworthy translation and explanation or tafseer of them and the Qur'an. Sects within the two major sects (Sunni and Shia) at times completey reject the hadiths in Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, or they do not believe all the Hadiths to be authentic.

Allah had given certain people the right to compile these authentic Hadiths together, such as Bukhari, Abu Dawood and Muslim. There are other Hadith books such as Tirmidhi, but the Hadiths which are not 100% reliable or authentic have written with them this fact. But some people choose to deny the authenticated ones and go for the weak ones - why? The likes of Bukhari, Abu Dawood and Muslim have made gaining knowledge for us so much easier by compiling the Sahih Hadith together in their own individual collections. They had gone under rigourous and critical examination to ensure that the Hadiths in these collections were authentic and not by any means weak. Yet some people still choose to opt for those written or compiled by people who lived much after Bukhari, Abu Dawood and Muslim, and those which were compiled much after the lives of these people run a very big risk of being extremely weak and false. They are much more likely to be weak Hadiths, and with some Shia compilations, they hadn't even gone under half as much examination as the ones with Bukhari, Abu Dawood, Muslim and the likes. It's not only with some Shia compilations, but with some Sunni ones too. If someone sees that a Hadith is shown to be weak, or they sense confusion or something wrong, then Allah has given them the brain to go and research more extensively. They can go to the extensive Sahih collections or they can go to the Qur'an to find out about a matter.

However, even with the Qur'an, Naudhubillah, many people dispute over which translation and tafseer is most trustworthy. Many people have written translations and tafseer's for the Qur'an, however they have also interpreted some Ayahs wrong, they havee not used authentic Hadiths and incidents to back up their interpretations, thus making their versions less trustworthy. However, people choose to use their interpretations, through something which I call brain-washing; they have been told over and over again by those who have given themselves a high status such as an Imam, that this is the proper translation and tafseer of the Qur'an and no matter how weird they may find some of the interpretations, they will blindly believe it. Ibn Kathir and Shah Waliullah and his family were the blessed ones who had translated, interpreted and used Sahih Hadiths and incidents to compile their tafseer's. They had worked day and night for a very long period of time translating the Qur'an and writing the tafseer to make it easier for the future generation of Muslims to understand the Qur'an properly.

People need to wake themselves up, they need to read the translations and compilations formed by those who were given this great right by Allah. We need to realise that there were countless people who converted to Islam but with the goal of creating divisions and disputes among the Ummah. Many people unfortunately fell into their traps, thus creating further divisions and different interpretations of the Qur'an and the Hadith. They believed those people and their lies, they changed their own views and made their families and friends change their views. They did not choose to go back to the authentic Hadith and the Qur'an but weakened towards the weak Hadith and interpretations and false sayings from Jews who became Muslim to create problems in the Ummah.

After the death of the Prophet Muhammad P.B.U.H, the Caliphs had the responsibility of spreading Islam whilst holding the Ummah together. But as they moved further outwards towards Persia, the divisions started occurring. New-converts wanted to break apart this strong Ummah, and so they did. Sects started forming within the two major divisions being Sunni and Shia and then the Sufi sect also formed, claiming they are the more spiritual ones. The Prophet P.B.U.H did not belong to any sect, his companions (may Allah be pleased with them) did not belong to any sect, why should we?

May Allah guide us to the Straight Path and decrease the divisions and disputes within this Ummah. Ameen.

Walaikum Salam. :)