What is Ahmadiyyat? — Page 28
( 28 ) and trne, others as doubtful and- un- certain and still otners as pure fabrica- tions. Th~ Holy Quran stands by itself. It is an entirely certain and valid record. A Hadith which contradiCts the teaching or text of the Quran · cannot be entertained. Where, however, the Quran is silent or without a clear direc- tim. 1 and the best available Hadith on the subject· happen to be less than certain or capable of several interpreta- tions, then we certainly must turn to the early doctors of the law- for guidance. The doctors of the law have spent their lives in reading, examining ·and - ponder- ing over the text of the Quran and the Hadith. They certainly- have the right to guide those who have not applied their m!nds and lives to the study and contempla~ion of the Quran and the Hadith in the same way, and whose scholarship or ·· judgment , is ·· not of the same order as that of the ' early