A bundle of twigs is not a tree

  < back >                                                                                                             < next slide > To buy your copy of A bundle of twigs is not a tree , click on the ISBNs: paperback 9781836154105 - eBook 9781836154112 If the answer to the earlier question is “Yes!” how does one explain the contradiction between it and the clear instruction in Q.6:108 against insulting whatever other people worship apart from God, or the sound hadith in Jami‘ al-Tirmidhi that “The believer is not defamatory, given to cursing, indecent, or foul-mouthed.”?

  < back >                                                                                                             < next slide > To buy your copy of A bundle of twigs is not a tree , click on the ISBNs: paperback 9781836154105 - eBook 9781836154112 If the answer to the previous question is “No!” then can we think of a scriptural basis for choosing not to copy something that occurred in the presence of the Prophet ﷺ, apparently without any explicit objection from him?

  < back >                                                                                                             < next slide > To buy your copy of A bundle of twigs is not a tree , click on the ISBNs: paperback 9781836154105 - eBook 9781836154112 Is it justifiable to argue that this insult is not to be seen as a deeply offensive outburst blurted out by an angry Abu Bakr, the first of rightly-guided caliphs, in the heat of the moment, but rather that they should be adopted as a ‘sunnah’ to be followed by all Muslims?

  < back >                                                                                                             < next slide > To buy your copy of A bundle of twigs is not a tree , click on the ISBNs: paperback 9781836154105 - eBook 9781836154112 Exposing how easy it is to mislead by selective quoting ‘Urwah ibn Mas‘ud al-Thaqafi […] set off until he came to Allah’s Messenger ﷺ and sat in front of him, saying, “O Muhammad, you’ve gathered the dregs of society, then you’ve brought them to your hometown to settle a score. Yet Quraysh have come forth bringing with them the she-camels with their young and wearing tiger skins, and they have entered into a covenant with Allah that you shall never pr...

  < back >                                                                                                             < next slide > To buy your copy of A bundle of twigs is not a tree , click on the ISBNs: paperback 9781836154105 - eBook 9781836154112 Exposing how easy it is to mislead by selective quoting  ‘Urwah ibn Mas‘ud al-Thaqafi […] set off until he came to Allah’s Messenger ﷺ and sat in front of him, saying, “O Muhammad, you’ve gathered the dregs of society, then you’ve brought them to your hometown to settle a score. Yet Quraysh have come forth bringing with them the she-camels with their young and wearing tiger skins, and they have entered into a covenant with Allah that you shall ne...

  < back >                                                                                                             < next slide > To buy your copy of A bundle of twigs is not a tree , click on the ISBNs: paperback 9781836154105 - eBook 9781836154112 Exposing how easy it is to mislead by selective quoting The next excerpt comes from the same sound hadith on the Treaty of Hudaybiyah. Like the previous excerpt, it contains a soundbite that could easily be used to justify hostility towards non-Muslims.