Teaching Resource – The Authority of the Sunnah – Part 3

Learning Objectives

1. In verse 2:187 what do the words ‘He relented towards you and pardoned you’ refer to? What sin was being pardoned?
2. How many angels were sent during the battler of Badr to help Muslims? Which ayah in the Quran mentions this?
3. When was the ayah in answer to question 17 revealed? (after or before Badr?)
4. How does the above ayah show the authority of the sunnah?
5. In verse 8:7 what are the two parties that are being referred to?
6. How does the above verse prove the authority of the sunnah?
7. What are the vents behind verse 66:3?
8. How does the above verse prove the authority of the sunnah?

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‘I believe that’s the infallible word of God’ – who said that?

Bismillah, alhamdulillah:

Your first response would be a Muslim scholar or even a video excerpt by a certain Osama. Well you may be suprised that this is the type of conversation occurring in the US halls of power. Talking about the new congress elections here is a transcript from the Amy Goodman show with Ryan Grim (correspondent for the Huffington Post) quote from a Republican Senator called John Shimkus being discussed on the Democracy Now website (speech highlight is mine). Note Ryan Grim’s analysis, the site also has this on video as well:

REP. JOHN SHIMKUS: So I want to start with Genesis 8, verse 21 and 22. “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” I believe that’s the infallible word of God, and that’s the way it’s going to be for His creation.

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