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Doctrine cannot be generated from a weak hadith alone. However Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi (a central figure affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood)<ref>[https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/Data/pdf/PDF_11_046_2.pdf Portrait of Sheikh Dr. Yusuf Abdallah al-Qaradawi, senior Sunni Muslim cleric, affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood] - The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (2011)</ref> decrees that a weak hadith can be used if: | Doctrine cannot be generated from a weak hadith alone. However Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi (a central figure affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood)<ref>[https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/Data/pdf/PDF_11_046_2.pdf Portrait of Sheikh Dr. Yusuf Abdallah al-Qaradawi, senior Sunni Muslim cleric, affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood] - The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (2011)</ref> decrees that a weak hadith can be used if: | ||
# the ''hadith'' not be very weak; | #the ''hadith'' not be very weak; | ||
# the ''hadith'' be within the scope of an authentic legal principle that is applied and accepted in either the Qur’an or Sunnah; | #the ''hadith'' be within the scope of an authentic legal principle that is applied and accepted in either the Qur’an or Sunnah; | ||
# its weakness, not authenticity, be realized when applying it. | #its weakness, not authenticity, be realized when applying it. | ||
For example the information that Muhammad considered a form of FGM excessively sever can be taken from 'Do not cut severely', even assuming it a daif hadith, since it is not in contradiction with the stronger FGM hadith and does not contradict the Qur'an. | For example the information that Muhammad considered a form of FGM excessively sever can be taken from 'Do not cut severely', even assuming it a daif hadith, since it is not in contradiction with the stronger FGM hadith and does not contradict the Qur'an. | ||
The hadith - whether daif, hasan, or sahih - all provide evidence that some form of FGM was practiced by Muhammad's followers. All of Islam treats the Quran and the Sunnah as the prime sources of doctrine. However, where an issue is not resolved by these secondary heuristics ([[daleel]]) are used for elucidating doctrine - and these heuristics are worked through in a hierarchical manner until the issue is resolved. | |||
The Hanbali, Shafi'i and Maliki schools of Sunni Islam have as their principle daleels the consideration what the companions of Muhammad did or thought (Ijma, Ijtihad and Amal). The Hanafi school prioritises analogical deduction (Qiyas). Thus the deeds and words of the Muhammad's companions are second only to the Quran and Sunnah in determining what is Islamic or not - and are especially important where scholars find that the Qur'an and Hadith don't resolve an issue. The exception is the Hanafi school, which ascribes a lesser importance to the deeds and words of the Sahabah - which may explain why the Hanafi madhab rules FGM as merely 'optional' and why Hanafi Muslims generally don't practice FGM.<ref>[https://www.academia.edu/39727001/FOUR_SCHOOLS_OF_SUNNI_LAW Four Schools of Sunni Law] - Fatima Tariq</ref> <ref>[https://www.academia.edu/35835897/ISLAMIC_JURISPRUDENCE_FIQH <nowiki>Islamic Jurisprudence [Fiqh]</nowiki>] - Tej Chopra</ref> | |||
====The Qur'an forbids mutilation==== | ====The Qur'an forbids mutilation==== | ||
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====Muhammad wanted to forbid FGM but couldn't==== | ====Muhammad wanted to forbid FGM but couldn't==== | ||
The full argument is that Muhammad wanted to forbid FGM | The full argument is that Muhammad wanted to forbid FGM couldn't because he felt that the society wherein he lived was not ready to immediately do this, so in the Qur'an and by his Sunnah he prepared the ground for eventual abolition of the practice. The same argument is made with respect to slavery. | ||
Muhammad was not shy of forbidding things which would have been dear to the people he ruled over - [[Intoxicants and Recreation in Islamic Law|pigs and pork products,]] [[Intoxicants and Recreation in Islamic Law|alcohol, gambling]], [[Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Music|music and singing]] - things that, when indulged in with moderation, give harmless pleasure. | |||
One of the major ‘selling points’ of Mohammed’s new religion was that it overturned and rejected the established practices of pre-Islamic Arabian polytheism. Mohammed suddenly imposed on his followers such new practices as male circumcision, abstention from [[Intoxicants and Recreation in Islamic Law|alcohol, pork, games, gambling, music, singing and art,]] ritual ablutions, praying 5 times a day… and these new rules were followed. It seems unlikely that refraining from FGM - a practice that goes against the deepest instincts of any parent - would be ‘one reform too many’ for his followers. | |||
One can speculate how things would be different if, in the Qur'an, he had forbidden FGM with the same force he did alcohol, and not approved of it in his words and deeds in the Hadith. Would Islamic history and the Islamic world today would so rife with FGM? | |||
{{Quran-range|5|90|91}} | |||
the Qur'an's and hadith's approval of FGM and slavery have been a major factor in the justification of perpetuation of the practice. One can speculate whether FGM would still be endemic to the Islamic world if the Qur'an contained a single verse explicitly forbidding it, or if there were not FGM in the hadith. | |||
Forbid many other things | |||
Mohammed successfully demanded that his followers abstain from pleasurable and/or beneficial things such as eating pork, drinking alcohol, interest in debt, the public display of women’s faces, instrumental music, and art that depicts the human form, the easy mixing and socialisation of men and women – how much more willingly would his followers have abandoned a practice that is harmful, and that must be distressing for loving parents to perform and witness? | Mohammed successfully demanded that his followers abstain from pleasurable and/or beneficial things such as eating pork, drinking alcohol, interest in debt, the public display of women’s faces, instrumental music, and art that depicts the human form, the easy mixing and socialisation of men and women – how much more willingly would his followers have abandoned a practice that is harmful, and that must be distressing for loving parents to perform and witness? | ||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||