Re: Al-Najd - What is it?
Das Reich
My point is that there are too many corrective measures in place to allow personal politics enter the field of ahadith. It simply didn’t happen or where it was attempted the system normalised itself and pushed out any extraneous material and ideas.
The Islamic tradition is self-corrective.
Well anyway as I said earlier that the horns of Satan cannot be simply lots of hardship and killing because that is happening in both Syria and Yemen. Both of these areas are excluded from the term “horns of Satan” - it must mean one of two things … that both Iraq and Najd share and are generally not shared by Syria or Yemen.
These are a) Amount of Oil and Gas b) Political power ideologies that are being disseminated under the guise of being Islamic. This way the sectarian movements that use religion as a basis to support their claim of physically taking rule and the proactive use of military in order to gain power I feel are how Iraq and Najd are equivalent. The Wahhabi/Salafi/Jihadists are not the only movement that qualify - there are also Political and Aggressive Shi’a movements that are doing the same. In fact the Shi’a is on the whole a political movement and one based on power rather than faith and its birthplace is arguably Iraq, just like the Wahhabi movement is based in Najd.
If this is not what you think equates these two places then or otherwise you can always doubt the hadith in the first place. The one side argue that the Najd is not the Najd but Iraq and the other side argue Najd is Najd and Iraq is hadith manipulation. People of ahadith will take the proof of both being the places that were not included in the prayer of RasoolAllah (SAW) and the last group is on safest ground because it does not undermine any hadith.