What the Sunnah Is Not

 
Is the Sunnah all about having mustache and/or beard or wearing a robe and a turban?

What could be the Sunnah of Rasul of Allah –RasulAllah– indeed?

What is the Sunnah of Allah, which is called as “Sunnatullah” in the Koran?

What closed minded people understand from Sunnah is all about the operation of circumcision made to the boys!

To obey the Rasul of Allah means for them to dress like people dressed up fourteen hundred years ago and to follow the rules and customs of that era.

The understanding of Sunnah for the limited minds reaches a bit further as the style of mustache and/or beard as well as a robe and a turban. Therefore they apply the rules/conditions and also the traditions of 1400 years ago to our age and also dress up like the people of that era in order to prove that they obey Rasul of Allah.

These are the Muslims who call themselves as Muslims while labeling the others who wear shirts with short sleeves as infidels.

They are Muslims as extreme as those who killed Hadrat Ali, the “Master of Sainthood” and the “the Gate of Science”... And their understanding is also the same as of those who has considered the gracious person Hadrat Ali as out of religion.

Examine the words of Hadrat Mohammed (peace be upon him) for Hadrat Ali carefully… Try to truly assess the mind state and also the understanding capacity of those Muslims who martyred Hadrat Ali since they did not see him as a follower of RasulAllah.

Be aware of those who have manipulated the religion to rule the society and hence gain the power while disguising their true intentions under the cover of serving to the Sunnah and the Deen!

After some of my explanations on this subject were published by a news portal on the internet, I personally wanted to clear it for everyone!

PLEASE THINK ABOUT THE THINGS THAT I EXPLAIN BELOW DEEPLY…

When I was 20 years old which was 40 years ago, I had a dream of Rasulallah (peace be upon him) who told me to visit Hadrat Abu Bakr… The rest of the dream is not important! That dream has led me to write the biography of Hadrat Abu Bakr in the same year which was followed by the Hadrat Rasulallah’s life in Mecca through hadithes under the name of Hadrat Mohammad Mustafa (peace be upon him).

The reason that I share this explanation for is to let you know that I have studied that specific period of time that RasulAllah has lived in quite deeply and read about 60.000 hadithes from reliable sources to support my studies.

Now let’s look at it carefully…

As already known, RasulAllah Mohammad Mustafa was born in the pagan Quraish tribe. His grandfather, uncles and all relatives were the followers of that tribe’s belief system.

That gracious person was also born and grown up among them.  He has dressed up like them, had beard as they had and used turban as they did.

And so on he reached the age of thirty nine and became the Rasul of Allah –RasulAllah–and then when his Nubuwwah has unveiled three years after the realization of the truth as Rasul of Allah, he has begun to explain the people, what they have to do in this life in order to save their afterlife –the eternal life– as a result of the divine inspiration he received.

And he has changed neither his beard nor his wearing style during this period of time or afterwards!

He has worn his turban like them, dressed himself up like them, had his beard as the others had! He has even continued to wear his multicolored striped dress.

The Sunnah of Rasul of Allah, is the Sunnah of the “One” named as “Allah” whom he is the Rasul of, and it is called as “SUNNATULLAH”!.

And only when we fully understand and live according to the “Sunnetullah” we would be the follower of the Sunnah of RasulAllah and Sunnatullah! Not with our beard, moustache, dress or turban!.

Besides, the most important fact to be aware of within this context is:

Not only has RasulAllah interfered with the dressing styles of such pagans as Abu Jahel and Abu Lahab and their follower Yazid who was also the murderer of RasulAllah’s grandchild, he also continued to dress up as they did instead of proposing a new way.

Because this was not an important issue to fulfill the religious requirements and it had nothing to do with knowing the truth regarding the eternal life or knowing the “One” named as “Allah”!

And this means that…

If Allah gives guidance to a person, that person can continue to dress up in a style which is in line with the custom and also the common practices of that specific society that he lives in except the issues that are conflicting with Sunnatullah. Instead he continues to communicate them the facts that he has been taught by the guidance.

In other words, Sunnah of Rasul –the Sunnatullah– is to accept and to live in line with the traditions, common practices and the dressing styles of the society that one lives in, instead of judging and/or refusing them.

Because, the purpose of “Deen” is not to make a revolution in dressing styles!

The way that people look is not the business of “Deen”!  Because, according to Sunnatullah, everybody has a right to dress up, have an education, work and live as they desire and believe in as long as they do not violate the public peace… even though it may seem completely wrong to those who fail to pass beyond the physical bodies and understand the brains.

Judging people’s religion according their dressing styles is simply the evidence of an undeveloped and imitating brain.

The Rasul of the “One” named as “Allah” has informed people about the realities of the system and its order that they are living in and has put all his efforts to support people in order to get them prepared for their eternal lives through living in an appropriate way according to the “system and its order” of Allah which is named as “Deen”.

The Rasul of the “One” named as “Allah” has informed people about the realities of the system and its order that they are living in and has put all his efforts to support people in order them to get prepared for their eternal lives through living in an appropriate way according to the “system and its order” of Allah which is named as “Deen”.

Being a religious person means searching, studying, examining, understanding the system of Allah and accepting to live according to this system and its order. A devout person will protect himself as a muttaqee against the dangers he realized about future through taking into account the realities of the system

And being a follower of the Sunnah of Rasul of Allah means to reach the beauties of the future through embracing his understanding, applying his recommendations to our daily lives, in short walking on his path. It is to discover the truth of your essence that he has pointed out and then experiencing the magnificent results of this discovery, not wasting your life with imitations.

Being a follower of the Sunnah of RasulAllah means to share the insight-wisdom- which has been donated to you with people without expecting a reward for it. It is not to distract people with stories regarding the dressing styles!

A person who perceives the system of Allah and its order -which is called Sunnatullah- and lives accordingly, is the follower of the “Sunnah of RasulAllah”.

The saying “Whoever likens himself to a certain tribe belongs to that tribe” points out that a person is a part of the society which he shares the thoughts, values and belief system of that certain society… It has nothing to do with the similarities between outfits and/or beards.

As I have explained it in my article called “Ruling the people in the name of “Deen” unfortunately some people have forbidden to make researches about religion and/or to question it and so they have supported the production of a prototype simply with a brain such as a tape-recorder which only memorizes the things since he has no ability to think.

The world is the land of wisdom (hikmah) and every explanation of RasulAllah is based on wisdom. Therefore, wise people try to reach the wisdom of every revelation of RasulAllah by questioning and studying them carefully in order to fully understand it.

And the saying “Wisdom (hikmah) is the loss of the faithful” underlines this principle.

One who has conflicts or gaps in his thinking system has not understood the “DEEN” yet and is only a copycat who can not READ the system and its order and the mechanism that he is living in.

Yet, the Deen does not accept the imitation!..

The imitation of an act may create the same results but the imitation of an understanding is not possible!

“Fakih” that is being insightful is a blessing of Allah which avoids being a copycat.  Memorizing the canonical jurisprudence does not mean to be “Fakih” at all and will never bring an insight to become so.

Memorizing the things has lost its value since the discovery of the tapes and recorders!

The “DEEN” has been declared to us in order “to be READ”, so that you can be aware of the system and its order that you are living in and more important than this “to KNOW YOURSELF”! So that you can discover the fortune hidden in your essence and hence know your place within the universe by understanding the “One” named as “Allah” through the principles of holographic reality.  The ones who has not understood this fact should know that they have not read the surah of “ikhlas” which explains the “Oneness” with its full meaning even for once in their lifetimes although they may have repeated it for a hundred thousand times!..

We should try to fully understand the warning of RasulAllah that “there are many who make prayers regularly but gets nothing but tiredness and also there are many who fast but get nothing but hunger”.

The RasulAllah has communicated the Koran to us so that we may think about it deeply to fully understand it, and that we may take every step in life according to “Sunnatullah”! The Rasul has not come for us to waste our lives with gossiping about the hair, beard or dressing style of people and/or judging them!..

What is the understanding that lies within the “DEEN” which begins to its word with a statement saying that “There is NO GOD or CONCEPT OF GODHOOD BESIDES the “One” named as “ALLAH” (LA ILAHA ILL-ALLAH)”?

Those who do not put any effort to question and to understand this fact who waste their lives as a copycat will be paying the cost of their results of not reading-decoding- the secret of hidden fortune with a big disappointment and hence frustration!..

Nevertheless, there is no concept of “RECOVERY of the past” within the system!

PS: This is my personal evaluation and it does not compel anybody. People may agree or disagree with my point of view as they wish. And of course some others who may have conflict of interest with our way of thinking may forbid people to read our books claiming that we confuse the people’s minds!

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