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How Is It Possible That The Law Of Inheritance Was Misunderstood For 1400 Years?
This is something I cannot wrap my head around. Not Ghamidi Sb’s reasoning, just that how could such an important issue be misunderstood for a millennia by all the religious scholars throughout the centuries, ESPECIALLY the earliest companions who were contemporaries of the Prophet. The Quran says that upon us is it’s collection and recital AND explanation, so the correct explanation of the law of inheritance was obviously known to the Prophet (SAW), and he must’ve taught and explained it to his Sahaba too as it must’ve been used frequently (as people die everyday). How come Caliph Umar (RA) didn’t know how to apply it to that case that’s usually mentioned, where Ghamidi Sb’s interpretation of the law would easily distribute the shares. How come so early in Islamic history these issues arose, no one knew how to apply the law (even Caliph Umar, a direct close companion of the Prophet), and the Awl concept was developed so early on. This is very confusing and poses a lot of questions. Did Allah not explain it in detail? Did the Prophet not pass it on? Did the direct companions know this way of distribution? If so then how Caliph Umar didn’t? If there is one correct understanding of the law according to which Quranic shares can apply to every case, then it must be the right one, then how come Ghamidi Sb is the first one to discover it? Please help me out. Btw I have watched the series and all my questions are not related to his interpretation.
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How Is It Possible That The Law Of Inheritance Was Misunderstood For 1400 Years?
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If it is clear to you that there was error in the understanding of the law earlier and what was the nature of the error then you may understand it. The law is self expalanroty in closer words. Still there is always a chance that some one misunderstnd a closer thing.
In this case Hazrat Umar committed a mistake and others paid little attention to it, as it was a mathematical problem and Arabs were not very interested in mathematics, except for Abdullah bin Abbas who took it right but being a young boy didn’t dare to opposed Hazrat Umer’s understanding. Once the precedent was set the others just followed it despite the fact that the prescribed shares were indivisible according to their understanding.
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But Sir this is not a simple case of someone misunderstanding something by chance, this is something that the whole Muslim Ummah has had ijma on for the last 1400 years, mentioned by our earlier exegetes, and the Prophet would have obviously known the right interpretation, and must’ve taught it to all his followers, especially his closest and longest companions who learned directly from him for so many years (including Caliph Umar), how is it possible that the right interpretation just got lost somehow? And that the whole Ijma of all the jurists and the common masses was based on an error made by chance? This simply means that the way Ghamidi Sb has interpreted the law, this understanding simply wasn’t prevalent in the earliest times, neither did Caliph Umar know it according to that tradition. So why isn’t it traced back to the Prophet’s Sunnah with which he established the whole religion? How is the Ijma and tawattur of the Ummah on an issue as central as this (people die everyday so this is a very important law even in modern constitutions) based on an error made by chance? Where did the correct understanding disappear? Why has it been rediscovered after more than a millennia? This doesn’t answer any of my questions and poses so many more questions? How many other things have been based on mistakes then? How do we know other things based on Ijma and tawattur aren’t continuities of some errors made earlier? From the issue of recitation to the application of every other law in Shariah, how do we that Ijma and tawattur is right in every other case if the correct understanding of the inheritance law (if it was there in the earlier times) just completely disappeared and consensus was reached on a supposed error and a mistaken way of thinking? Couldn’t the early jurists or linguists simply tell it apart based on a closer reading and understanding of the usloob and wordings of the Ayas? @Irfan76 @UmerQureshi
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Sir how did Abdullah bin Abbas know the correct interpretation but not Hazrat Umer? What about all other scholars at the time who gathered to resolve the issue? They didn’t know it too apparently? Such a central law and its correct application would’ve been known by the masses no? How did it get lost then? And it wasn’t a mathematical problem but a misunderstanding of the law and application that left no share for one party, and mathematics was instead applied in the form of Awl to reduce the individual shares and give each a portion of the inheritance.
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