Fabrications

[Ahmed Mateen]

17:73 And, behold, they endeavor to tempt you away (O Prophet) from what We reveal to you (and make compromises in return for accepting you as the King of Arabia and a Prophet) if you invented something of their liking (like authorizing the worship of their false deities or taking back the equality of humans) in Our Name. (17:46).

The enemies of Islam failed to change the Quran a bit, but they cleverly have distorted its message. In the above verse we have been warned to be careful from these people who try:

1. To tempt people away from what Allah has revealed for them
2. They do this by inventing something of their liking in the name of Allah

This behaviour of such people is not new, when we look at the Quran we find that whenever Allah has sent a Messenger the enemies of Allah and the Messenger has done the same thing. They changed the message by inventing new things and mingling them with Wahi:

22:52 Yet whenever We sent any Messenger or Prophet before you, satanic people tried to confound the central aims of the Message in his very life-time. But Allah rendered null and void all the aspirations they had. And Allah makes His Messages clear in and by themselves, for Allah is All Knowing, Wise. (Satanic people then tried to alter his teachings after he passed on. Allah, then, sent another Messenger to restore the purity of His Messages 6:113. Until the Final Message was revealed and Allah Himself guaranteed its preservation.)

6:112 Thus We have appointed to every Prophet enemies. The rebellious among the urban and the rural populations rose in opposition, (since the Message struck at their vested interests). They plotted and inspired each other with fancy words. If your Lord willed, they won't do that. (But, challenges come your way only to expand your personalities 2:286). Disregard them and whatever they fabricate.

This is the blessing of Allah that He revealed the Book and said He would guard it:
15:9 Behold, it is We Ourselves Who have sent down this Reminder, and behold, it is We Who shall truly guard it.

When enemies of Islam failed to change the Quran they tried to distort its message by inventing Ahadith in the name of Allah and Prophet(S) and this was easy for them. Here is a one simple example that shows how hard these people tried and we see how successful they are:

Ahadith Compiler

Imam Bukhari : Collected-600,000 Selected-2,762 (after repetitions)

Imam Muslim : Collected-300,000 Selected-4,348

Imam Trimzi : Collected-300,000 Selected-3,115

Imam Abu Dawood : Collected-500,000 Seclected-4,800

Imam Ibn Maja : Collected-400,000 Selected-4,000

Imam Nisai : Collected-200,000 Selected-4,321

If you look at the figures again:

Collected 2,300,000
Selected 23,346.

Rejected 99%
Accepted 1%.

These figures clearly shows how hard the enemies of Islam tried inventing new things in the name of Allah and His Prophet(S) and how successful they were to drift people away from the message of Quran. And how correct and successful were our Muhadithin in their selections, Just read Dr.Shabbir’s book The Criminals of Islam and keep visiting “What Islam is NOT” section of this forum.


-May Allah increases us in knowledge!