The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 135
Hadith and Sunnah of the Holy Prophet 135 such Aḥadīth as are strengthened and are carrying the degree of certainty by the firm and strong and certain method of practice, and which are comprehensive of all religious needs and worship and covenants and dealings and the commandments of the law. Such Aḥādīth are doubtless certain and are fully proved. The strength of these. Aḥadīth is not derived from the art of compilation of. Hadith, nor from their inherent force, nor from the reliability of and confidence in their narrators, but is bestowed by the blessings of practice. I accept these. Aḥādīth so far as they are supported by practice up to a certain degree of certainty. But the other portions of. Aḥādīth which are not related to practice and are accepted on the basis of the truthfulness of their narrators are not held by me as being beyond the status of conjecture. At the most they can be employed as useful conjecture inasmuch as the manner in which they have been compiled is not certain and conclusive, but leaves room for perversion. [Al-Haq, Mubāḥatha Ludhiāna, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 4, p. 35]. An objector hears from someone that the Aḥādīth are not reliable and he immediately concludes therefrom that with the exception of the Holy Qur'ān all other authorities in Islām are baseless and doubtful and fall far short of certainty and conclusiveness. This is a great mistake, the first result of which is to destroy faith and religion; for if it were true that with the exception of the Holy. Qur'an all other sources are false, imposture, conjectures and imagination, then little would be left of Islām for all the details of our faith have come down to us through. Aḥādīth. Our Prayer services have been made obligatory by the Holy Qur'ān, but it is nowhere laid down in the. Qur'an that the Dawn Prayer (Fajr) comprises two rak'as