My dear brother, we cannot rely on the Book of Allah alone as the sole source of legislation in religion without accepting the Hadiths. Therefore, we must follow the Sunnah.
And why? Did Allah fail to detail or clarify things for you, such that you need another source for the religion?
Yes, there are prohibitions that Allah did not mention, and we learned them through the Prophetic Sunnah. The Quran did not detail for us everything that is forbidden to us.
By saying this, you are casting doubt on the Book of Allah. Allah tells us that He detailed everything He forbade us. He says: (He has explained to you in detail what is forbidden to [Surah Al-An'am 119]).
Then you and others come and say this statement is incorrect, claiming there are things Allah did not detail for us!
This is a serious claim!
Furthermore, how can you say there are prohibitions Allah did not detail? How did you know they were prohibited as long as Allah did not mention them?
Perhaps my expression failed me, and I didn't express it correctly. But tell me: how did we know about the prohibition of gold and silk for men? Without the Sunnah, we wouldn't have known that gold and silk are forbidden for men!
And who told you that gold or silk are forbidden for men? Who lied to you and told you that gold and silk are among the prohibitions for men?
But there are Hadiths from the Messenger, and in them is the prohibition of gold and silk for men!
First, the Messenger of Allah is innocent of everything attributed to him and written about him. It is impossible for the Messenger of Allah to prohibit things from outside the Quran, and he cannot prohibit things that Allah did not prohibit.
Let me ask you a question!!
Go ahead.
Who is the Lawgiver (Owner) of the religion?
Of course, and without the slightest doubt, it is Allah!
Good. Tell me then, is Muhammad bin Abdullah the Messenger of Allah, or is He Allah's partner in His dominion?
Far be it from him to have a partner!! He is only the Messenger of Allah, not a partner!
Excellent. Your words are 100% correct. Muhammad bin Abdullah is the Messenger of Allah, and the Messenger's duty is only to deliver the message. Allah says: (O Messenger, deliver that which has been revealed to you from your Lord, 👈and if you do not👉, then you have not conveyed His message [Surah Al-Ma'idah 67]).
He also said: (The Messenger has only to deliver [the message] [Surah Al-Ma'idah 99]), and Allah repeated this verse to us three times to alert us to this matter!
This means the Messenger's duty is to deliver what was revealed to him by his Lord. He is the carrier of a divine message; he has no right to add or subtract. He delivers it to us exactly as he received it from the Lord of the Worlds. The sole Legislator in the religion is Allah, and no one else has the right to permit or prohibit on their own. By doing so, one makes himself a partner with Allah in His dominion, which is something Allah cannot accept.
In fact, there is a verse in the Quran that criticizes those who prohibit such things!!
Allah says: (Say, "Who has forbidden the adornment of Allah which He has produced for His servants and the good [lawful] things of provision?" [Surah Al-A'raf 32]).
This verse is a rebuttal to everyone who says gold and silk are forbidden for men.
Then why were they prohibited, becoming an established fact for the Muslim man?
Because the subconscious of the Muslim was raised on the religion of "heritage" (tradition) rather than the religion of Allah!! The mind was programmed with these prohibitions until they became taken for granted. We made them forbidden without scrutiny, without investigation, and without referring to the Book of Allah—especially since clerics forbade us from reflecting on Allah's Book without referring to them, because in their view, religion can only be taken through them!
Honestly, I didn't know this before; I thought it was Haram. But there are also forbidden things that Allah did not mention, and frankly, I don't want to say about Allah what I do not know, but I cannot overlook this issue. I searched for it in the Quran and found no mention of it!
What is it?
Marrying a woman along with her paternal or maternal aunt. In the entire Quran, there is no mention of a prohibition for combining a wife with her aunt.
You said it yourself!! Allah did not prohibit it; therefore, it is not among the prohibitions! Combining a wife with her aunt is not forbidden. The prohibitions in marriage were clearly explained by Allah in His Book, in verse 23 of Surah An-Nisa, and then He said in the following verse: (And permitted to you is what is beyond those).
So, what Allah remained silent about is permissible (Halal).
How can it not be forbidden!!! No mind can accept this!!
Rather, it is the "heritage-based mind" founded on "narrated tradition" that cannot accept it, not "any" mind. My dear brother, the issue of prohibiting the combination of a wife with her aunt is merely a matter of societal values and human culture, linked to the customs and norms prevalent in society. For example, the Arabs of Quraish used to be repulsed by marrying a divorced woman, as if a divorcee were an outcast.
But the maternal aunt is an extension of the mother, just as the paternal aunt is an extension of the father. From this comparison, we understand the prohibition of combining a wife with her aunt.
You are mixing unrelated matters together.
What do you mean?
What does the prohibition of the aunt for a man (as a blood relative) have to do with the issue of one man marrying a woman and her aunt at the same time!!
When you say the aunt is an extension of the mother, the prohibition applies to the *son*—meaning his aunt is like an extension of his mother to him—not to a man who wants to marry both a woman and her aunt.
Secondly, the aunt is not an extension of the mother. An aunt is one thing and a mother is another. If they were the same, Allah would not have mentioned both the mother and the aunt in the verse of prohibition: (Prohibited to you are your mothers, your daughters, your sisters, your paternal aunts, and your maternal aunts). Allah could have just said "your mothers" without mentioning your aunts, and we would have understood that the aunt is forbidden because she is an "extension of the mother" as you say. Furthermore, if the aunt were an extension of the mother and took the same ruling, then her daughters (your cousins) would be considered your sisters and marriage to them would be forbidden! Does that make sense?!
Therefore, these things are matters of custom and tradition, and we cannot definitively claim they are Haram because Allah did not prohibit them.
The origin of all things is permissibility. As for what is forbidden to us, Allah mentioned it in the Quran. What Allah remained silent about is Halal.