Obey God and obey the messenger.qi.
Obey God and obey the messenger Undoubtedly, the command to "obey God and the messenger", which appears in a number of Quranic verses such as 3:32, is one of the most important Quranic commands! The hadith scholars use this Quranic command to advocate the legality of following the hadith as a source of religious jurisdiction. They claim that obeying God is achieved by means of obeying the Quran, whilst obeying the messenger is achieved by means of obeying his hadith (personal sayings) and his sunnah (methods). They add that if obeying the messenger was the same as obeying God's Quran, God would have only said "obey God". Thus, to their understanding, God's inclusion of "obey the messenger" implies that the messenger had his own set of religious teachings independent of the Quran which we must obey. God willing, this claim is verified here in the light of the Holy Quran. 1- Why does the Quran say 'obey the messenger'? It is necessary to inqu...