Assalamu alaykum brothers and sisters
As a new member of this forum i would like to introduce myself.
My name is Berat, i'm 18 (almost 19) yo.
I live in Macedonia, but i was grown up and lived 14 years of my life in Italy. My family is and has always been a sunni one, but me and my family were not much of a practicing one (untill the last 2 years), we didnt pray, fast, etc. though we didnt eat pork, drink alcohol or do major sins.
Around 2 years ago i had an accident with my motorbike, i was and still am a big fan of motocross
I got a surgery and had to rest allot, during this time i thought allot. Especially the purpose of my life.
This is when my religious search started, of course as a muslim (even though i was not a practicing one) i started to look for my answers in islam first, but unfortunately i had always doubts and didnt believe in the things i was being taught, mostly because i was reading more hadiths than the Quran itself. I read allot of the bible and a bit of other religions too at that time.
But the more i read, the more illogical i found the other religions, so i came back to islam because i knew from what i learned at that time there was something logical.
So my story goes on like this, i continued reading and finally i came to the conclusion there is a part of islam (as sunnis teach it) that doesnt make any sense. Everytime i had a question and searched for the answer in the hadiths i always ended up with more questions, and no answer was found.
Though the Quran was not like that, everytime i searched for an answer i found it in there, so this is where i started to not believe the hadiths as part of this religion.
This was a critical moment of my life, because i thought i found the truth in islam (how sunni teach it) and it turns out there is still lies in there.
So i made a research on the net if we really have to trust hadiths, this is where i found out about Quranism (at that time i thought i was the only one that rejected hadiths as part of our deen).
So here i am here, even though it has been months i rejected hadiths i only found out about this forum recently.
Btw i am not a sunni nor shia since i reject the authority of the hadiths, according to them i am a disbeliever (i am called that one allot). I am not a follower of any sect too and i dont like to be labelled as a quranist, even though i am one. I prefer to be called just a muslim.
I think it sounds like some sort of sect, dividing yourself from the others sects, but as an idea and movement i am a quranist, the idea of rejecting the authority of hadiths.