Divine Origins

  

Allah Almighty is the one who gave us Islam. He is the one who commanded the shariah (divine law). While other human systems and distorted religions were developed by specific individuals. For example, communism was founded and developed by philosophers and statesmen such as Marx, Engels, Lenin and Mao. Buddhism was designed by men in the name of Budda.

Christianity was founded by Paul and then shaped by human interventions like the councils and later on by the popes. These reconstruction and alteration activities are still continuing in our time. False creeds and practices have been adopted such as confession, where they believe if you confess your sin in private to a priest then it will be forgiven. 

Similarly, Judaism has reached the present day through human interventions. For example, sins are laid on a goat and that goat is released into the desert. From this point of view, the term “scapegoat”. Today, some Jewish sects practice this bizarre superstition with chickens instead. 

Mainstream Judaism is a religion based on ethnic elitism, as all non-Jews are forbidden to enter their religion and are even considered as lower kind of creatures, while they themselves believe they are exclusively Gods chosen people. 

While the Qur’an, which is the main source of Islam has reached the present day under divine protection, with no change in a single letter. An ongoing miracle of the Qur’an is that the scientific truths revealed by the Qur’an emerged centuries later. In other words, the Qur’an leads ahead of science, sciences come behind Qur’an.

• The uniqueness of fingerprints,

• The expansion of the universe,

• The stages of development of the embryo in the mother’s womb and

• Many other examples can be given, such as the formation of milk in the intestines. (For more, see :Breeze of Mercy and the Miracle of Qur’an and School of Universe). 

Another ongoing miracle of the Qur’an is its historical information that is confirmed centuries later by studies such as archeology etc. For example, the Qur’an states that Pharaoh gave the order to build a tower to Haman. In the past century, historians of Ancient Egypt were able to determine that Haman was also responsible for the quarries as a result of archaeological excavations See. Şaban Kuzgun, “Hâmân” DİA, XV/437.

The Qur’an is the divine word. While the divine origin of the Sunnah is declared as follows:

Our Prophet PBUH has the authority to insert law in religion. Therefore, the مَنْ يُطِعِ الرَّسُولَ فَقَدْ اَطَاعَ اللَّٰ :Sunnah is the second source in religion. Allah Almighty declares

“Whoever obeys the Messenger has obeyed Allah…” (Nisa, 80)

In reality this authority is based on revelation. For this reason, the enforcer of the rules determined by the Sunnah is indirectly Allah Almighty. 

Namely, a decree established by our Prophet; 

• Either it is based on a revelation that is not recited,

• Or it is an ijtihad (reasoning) of our Prophet. 

The revelation that is not recited refers to the revelations that our Prophet received from Allah Almighty, other than the Qur’an. 

For example, there is no verse that explains prayer times clearly with their time limits. However, there are only verses that refer to times of prayer in general. 

We learn from Hadiths that prayer times were taught to our Prophet through the angel Jibril AS. See. Bukhârî, Mawaqit, 1; Muslim, Masajid, 166, 167; Muwatta, Wuqut, 1.

 Therefore, the determination of prayer times is 

one of those matters which is divinely revealed, even though it is not explicitly stated in the Qur’an itself. 

In this sense, the Sunnah is the Prophet’s interpretation of the Qur’an and his living example.