Baqarah 108

108- OR DO YOU WISH TO QUESTION YOUR MESSENGER AS MOSES WAS QUESTIONED BEFOREHAND?  WHOEVER EXCHANGES BELIEF FOR DISBELIEF, HE HAS GONE ASTRAY OF THE EVEN PATH.

Allah the Highest is warning and forbidding the Muslims from questioning and doubting Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, as the Jews did with Moses, peace upon him.

Questioning and doubting Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, in this way may lead to disbelieve, and going off Allah’s Path. 

In general, too many questions do not make things easier, but a great deal harder, and let us not forget what happened with the Jews concerning the cow.   They ended up having great difficulty finding the cow in question, then paying a great deal of money for it, when, had they not asked, any ordinary cow would have been sufficient. 

Allah the Highest told us in a very embracing Ayah: “YOU WHO BELIEVE, DO NOT ASK ABOUT THINGS WHICH IF SHOWN SHALL HURT YOU”.  (S: 5 A: 101)

Al-Mogera Ibn Shouba, Allah’s messenger’s companion, reported that Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, forbad the Muslims from saying that it was said and he said, and from wasting money and from asking too many questions”. 

(B: Reqaq; 22 & M: Aqdiah; 10 & Mal: Kalam; 20)

When Allah the Highest, made Hajj a duty upon the Muslims, a man asked Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him: “Would it be for every year Allah’s messenger?”  He did not get an answer.  He asked three times without getting an answer.  Then Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, said: “No, and had I said yes, it would have become an obligation for you”.  Then he, prayer and peace upon him, said: “Do not ask about the things I did not tell you about, for what caused the destruction of people before you, was; asking too many question, their disputes and differing with their prophets.  Therefore, whenever I command you to do something, do I, and whenever I forbid you from doing something, avoid it”. 

(B: Etesam; 2 & M: Hajj; 411& N: Hajj; 1 & Ma: Moqademah; 1 & A: 246,249)

Thanks to Allah; Allah’s messenger’s companions were very economical with their questions to him.  Had they been always questioning Allah’s messenger, prayer and peace upon him, arguing and disputing with him as the Jews were with their prophets and messengers; they would have made things very difficult for the Muslim Nation.

This questioning and disputing leads us astray from Allah’s Path, the Even Path to the Uneven Path.  This Uneven Path is full of difficulties; these are all of our own making.

Nowadays, we hear many Muslims ask many detailed questions about their religion, concerning very simple and clear rules, as to whether this or the other is better, and some so called scholars, giving answers which make the Muslims daily life difficult, when the questions should not have been asked in the first place.  This is something we should not do.

B: Bukhari  M:  Muslim    Mal: Malek   A: Ahmed   D: Abu Dawood     

 Da: Daremy       Ma: Ibn Magah            N: Nesae          T: Termezi