Journey of Idea to Impact :
As someone who researched islam later in life, one critical point that never made sense was this: If leaving a successor was so necessary- which it is, the quran states the ummah will never be without a leader- why was it that the caliphs were allowed to appoint a successor but apparently the prophet did not? So I dissected the Quran and many prominent hadiths. 1. The Prophet was the messenger, never spoke out of line, his speech was gods word and Quranic, which meant to find the definition of mowla we must look to the Quran, end result, Mowla according to Quran means master/leader. 2. I also looked at the history of revelation for certain ayahs and surahs, when a specific ayah from Surah Maidah (5:3)was revealed, it was revealed during Ghadir khum after Ali was declared Mowla, and the ayah confirms "today your religion has been perfected/completed". Therefore Logic dictates prophet wasn't stopping thousands in the heat of desert to express his love for Ali, that was common knowledge, he married his daughter to him. I applaud you for your research and sharing. I will be first to say learning to question what we've been taught raises the question of who we really follow; our parents and egos, or the holy prophet.
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