Keeping To The Sunnah.

[Abu Fauzi]

Assalam alaykum, The Messenger of Allah, Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu alaihi Wasallam, was reported to have said:--"Let me not find one of you, reclining on his couch, when he hears something regarding what I have commanded or forbidden saying: 'We do not know. What we found in Allah's Book we have followed'.(Abu Dawud) This is a good reminder against today's casual attitude with which some Muslims, unfortunately, discard the Sunnah of our Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. Allah Subhahu Wa Ta'ala, repeatedly links obedience of Allah to obedience of His Messenger. Allah says: "And whoever obeys the Messenger, thereby obeys Allah".(4:80) and "Whatever the Messenger gives you take it, and whatever he forbids you, refrain from it".(59:7). The Qur'an itself, in many instances, condemns having a 'Qur'an only' approach. To divorce the Sunnah from Islam is to render Islam ineffective; for example, the Qur'an directs us to pray and pay/give Zakkat, but without the Sunnah, how would we know how to pray or calculate and (then) give the Zakkat?....