578
edits
[checked revision] | [checked revision] |
(→Other verses: Added some more Quran verses stating to obey 'God and his messenger'. As well as interesting additional point on the change of this idea throughout the Quran with it only appearing in later Medinian verses, and provided an academic quote for this.) |
(→Other verses: Added in another verse supporting extra-Qur'anic material, and linked Nicolai Sinai paper supporting this interpretation) |
||
Line 48: | Line 48: | ||
{{Quote|{{Quran|59|6}}|Whatever Allah has restored to His Messenger from the people of the towns, it is for Allah and for the Messenger, and for the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer, so that it may not be a thing taken by turns among the rich of you, and '''whatever the Messenger gives you, accept it, and from whatever he forbids you, keep back''', and be careful of (your duty to) Allah; surely Allah is severe in retributing (evil)}} | {{Quote|{{Quran|59|6}}|Whatever Allah has restored to His Messenger from the people of the towns, it is for Allah and for the Messenger, and for the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer, so that it may not be a thing taken by turns among the rich of you, and '''whatever the Messenger gives you, accept it, and from whatever he forbids you, keep back''', and be careful of (your duty to) Allah; surely Allah is severe in retributing (evil)}} | ||
This verse asks Muslims to follow everything Mohammad gives them, and abstain from everything he forbids. That means they are commanded by Allah to follow the Sunnah. | This verse asks Muslims to follow everything Mohammad gives them, and abstain from everything he forbids. That means they are commanded by Allah to follow the Sunnah. | ||
The following verse also describes him as “a good exemplar (uswatun ḥasanatun) for those who place their hope on God and the Last Day and invoke God often”, suggesting followers emulate him in general,<ref>Sinai, Nicolai. “''[https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:34ef078e-0bb9-422e-8fd7-a42c8d1bdf1b/files/m73f645bb4eda180c5d419565b2b19ce0 Muhammad as an Episcopal Figure.]''” Arabica, vol. 65, no. 1-2, Brill Academic Publishers, 2018, pp. 1–30. ''PP13.'' | |||
https://doi.org/10.1163/15700585-12341480</ref> which is of course impossible to do without his personal traits and actions (which rarely alluded to in the Qur'an alone) being recorded as extra-Qur'anic traditions. | |||
{{Quote|{{Quran|33|21}}|There is certainly a good exemplar for you in the Apostle of Allah—for those who look forward to Allah and the Last Day, and remember Allah much.}} | |||
==Five Pillars of Islam== | ==Five Pillars of Islam== |
edits