Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 194
194 the Revelation he received was true beyond any doubt; how then could the Holy Quran, which was revealed to the Holy Prophet s as and is the source of Divine guidance for all times to come, be sus - ceptible to Satanic influence even for one small instant? The Promised Messiah as told the Muslims that the Holy Quran was an authentic scripture and that God has promised to safeguard it in such a way that even its opponents are forced to admit that it has remained intact to this day. To try to counter it with Hadith amounts to denigrating and knowingly rejecting the Word of God. Any Hadith that contradicts the Holy Quran cannot be the saying of the Holy Prophet s as because the Prophet of Allah cannot contradict the Word of Allah. Moreover, Hadith was not compiled in a safe and secure manner. It is, therefore, wrong to force Hadith on the Holy Quran; indeed, it is important to keep Hadith subordinate to the Holy Quran. If the two appear to be irreconcilable, then we should abandon the Hadith, which might have been distorted, intentionally or unintentionally, by some human being. It is said in response to this that most of our knowledge of Islam comes from Hadith. However, the Promised Messiah as said that we have yet another source aside from the Holy Quran and Hadith, and it is the Sunnah —the actions of the Holy Prophet s as , which his Companions learnt directly from him and performed them in the same way. For this, we do not need to rely on any ver - bal Hadith. Millions of Muslims saw millions of other Muslims perform certain acts in certain ways, and they, in turn, imparted them to the generations that followed them. The Sunnah never contradicts the Holy Quran, whereas the verbal Hadith has an element of doubt. Hence, if a Hadith is in keeping with the Holy