Can We Become Walking Qurans? Improving Our Capacity to Follow the Prophetic Sunnah

Abstract

Mi muslimani smo naučili slijediti Sunnet Poslanika, njegov život i njegovu praksu. Prvi koraci u tome su obavljanje namāza kao što je on obavljao, davanja zekāta jednako velikodušno i na vrijeme kao što je on to radio, obavljanje hadždža i ʿumre kao i on. Na taj način mi izvršavamo obrede naše vjere. Jasno je da slijediti Sunnet Poslanika znači više od samog fizičkog izvršavanja naših obreda. Postizanje izvrsnosti u slijeđenju Sunneta Poslanika je nešto što su rani muslimani nastojali postići. To je zabilježeno u predaji tabi'ina (ḥadīth tābiʿīn) - osoba iz generacije nakon Poslanikove generacije, koja je bila ili premlada kada je Poslanik preselio ili je rođena tek nakon njegove smrti- koji je, želeći da sazna više o tome kakav je bio Poslanik, otišao do njegove udovice Aiše da je o tome pita. Njezin odgovor je bio da je Poslanik zapravo bio 'hodajući Kur’an'.As Muslims, we are taught that we are to follow the Prophet’s Sunnah, his precedent and praxis. The first steps we learn on how to do this is to pray as he did, give the zakāh as generously as he did, fast as he did, perform ḥajj and ʿumrah as he did; that is, by performing the rituals of the faith. Clearly, following the Prophetic Sunnah involves more than just the physical performance of our rituals. Achieving excellence in following the Prophetic Sunnah was something that the early Muslims sought to achieve. It is revealed in the ḥadīth of a tābiʿī (a person of the generation after the Prophet’s generation who was either too young when the Prophet died or born just after his death) who, wanting to know more about how the Prophet was like, went to his widow Aisha and asked her. Her response was that the Prophet was effectively a ‘Walking Quran.