Converting people to Islam!?!?!?!
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Anybody with any experiences? Anyone interrupted a friday khutbah and said 'you know what, non Quranic hadith don't form any part of Islam'!?
I have shared my belief with a few people. One of them accepted that Islam = Quran only.
With one other person, they simply disagreed with what I said. When I asked what particular point they disagreed with, they said that they didn't know but they disagreed with it anyway! They also used the 'obey the messenger' quote which I backed up with the full context of the role of the messenger (he would have been killed had he offered any other teachings etc, say Muhammad, I only follow that which is revealed unto me). Also I stated the verses about the Quran being complete and fully detailed, followed by God's irony in stating most will not believe it!
The other two, I think, have just pretended I never raised this issue, hoping it will go away.
When discussing these issues face to face with people, their integrity can be observed much faster than is the case online, IMO, but the discussions I had online were a useful experience for such dialogue.
However, perhaps part of the reason is that I find sunnism, if followed to the extremes it should be followed, to be a repulsive ideology, and I don't hold back from telling people this (in the relevent discussion). This is certainly a fault of mine, but I don't want to appear to be false.
Also, IMO, people believe what is most convenient to believe. 'Most convenient' is generally what their peer group also believe in. Very few people seem able to break through this.
Roshan