E-Sis, Gurey, Alpha, & PO thanks for hearing me out. Even if you disagree with me, at least you're reasoning and not resorting to invective(He is a fitnah-stirrer/hizbee/yahood-lover....ban him! shut down the thread!)
Sahan,
There is no contradiction in what I wrote. Mar kale ku laabo. Ha isku qasin the Occupying Zionist Entity and scientists of Jewish origin.
TeAmo, why the hostility? Shaykh Bin Baz(raxmatullahi calyh) was not macsoom. He was a human being. Just like you and me. He could and did make mistakes. Mistakes in judgement. Mistakes in understanding science and how the world works. To point out that he was a human capable of making mistakes does not diminish his stature. The crown of omnipotence belongs to Ilaahay and Ilaahay alone. So be easy with the whole 'personality cult' thing. Neither Bin Baz nor Ibn Taymiyyah nor Ahmed bin Hanbal is above criticism

(I love them all especially Ahmed bin Hanbal, but that doesn't mean I won't question them, their writings, and their judgements)
Shirib & FAH,
You two are reasonable guys, ma wax qaldan baa sheegay? Just because a hadith is in Bukhari or Muslim does NOT make it error-proof. The hadith could STILL be daciif or mowduuc. The isnaad, the chain of transmission could STILL be faulty. The hadith where a grown woman breast fed a grown man is also found in Bukhari & Muslim. A pervert like Cali-Gaab will point to that xadeeth and say that gives him the right to ask Basra for milk....so that they can be muhrams. Haye, adiga bal talo keen.
Same thing goes for the urine-drinking. Sufis will tell you that it is Sunnah mu'akkada to drink the urine and ingest the bodily fluids of the our teachers and awliyaa to seek their barakah. And if you try to explain to them that they are effing crazy, they will give you a hadith....also from Bukhari and Muslim. Haye, maxaad samayn?
All I'm saying is this insistence on literal dogma
has got to stop. It is lazy, cowardly, and serves the ruling elite too well. Just look at TeAmo and her passionate defence of dictators(It is Haram to rebel against our leaders!). But then you point out to her that Ibn Zubair rebelled against Yazeed, and she'll fall back on that epic Talafi cop-out: "We do not discuss what happened between the Saxaabah". What the hyper-literalists fail to realise is the Shareeca concept of(Al Ikhtilaaf fil xaali wal zamaan). That something may have been halal in the 7th century due to specific circumstances(ie, everybody was practicing slavery) but no longer is due to a change in Xaal(Circumstance) and Zamaan(Time). Case-in-point: Slavery. Literalists, however, will tell you that slavery is still halal today and if you say otherwise, gaal baa tahay, because you took something that was haal and made it haram.
I'll try to flesh this out over the weekend, till then, afur wanaagsan dhamaan
Reason

Dogma
Enlightened Shareeca that serves the masses

Dogmatic 'Shareeca' that serves tyrants
