Lesson from The Cow
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Salams,
I'm new to this forum. I have read almost all the material on free-minds.org. I have a suggestion for a mini-article which would be useful when presenting evidence from the Quran itself in support of Quran Alone.
The longest surah in the Book is The Cow. It takes its name from a story about Moses and his people. They were asked by God, through Moses, to kill a cow. No details about the cow were given. Instead of simply killing any cow, the Jews continuously asked Moses to keep going back to God to ask for more details about the cow. Eventually they killed a cow.
The lesson from this story is that God does not wish to complicate our lives unnecessarily and if he does not give details about something then that is intentional. The Jews insisted on more and more details which God did not specify or require. This only complicated their own lives unnecessarily. The longest surah in the Quran takes its name from this story. It's a critical lesson for us.
The same lesson can be used when talking to Traditionalists who say that there are certain issues which the Quran does not spell out in detail and that we therefore need to go to hadith in order to extract those details. In other words WE NEED MORE DETAIL THAN WHAT GOD HAS GIVEN US!
God is very detailed when He needs to be, and very vague when He needs to be. He doesn't need us to remind Him and prompt Him to give us more detail.
Just a thought,
HR