Wa'alaykum As-Salam akhee
where did you get this from? Books of ahadeeth have all sorts of narrations! How does this prove that Umar's (radiAllahu anho) statements is to be understood as sharee' ruling? There is a difference between lingustic definition of bid'ah and sharee' definition of bid'ah.
when did I not present the scholar's opinions but my own personal understanding? No one is asking you to buy what the article say, if you like it good and if you don't then it is your choice. No one is obliged to present the other view when it is known that they think it is deviant. Which scholars are you talking about? Can they be hujjah to everyone?
1 - this is not an issue of fiqh where opposite opinion can be tolerated; it is more or less an aqeedah issue
2 - what is the view of the jamhour or what is the ijma'?
3 - What's the point of quoting the other opinion if you blast it with your arguments in the same article? How does that propose tolerance and unity? Please read carefully the works of ibn Kathir (rahimahullah); he blasted the people of kalam (Ash'aris, etc.) through out his tafseer and al Bidayah wa-Nihayah. I don't know how that was tolerant or displaying unity.
brother AllahkaBanda
Firstly, I'm not making up the ruling that all bid'a may not be classed as going astray because it is in this 'linguisitic' sense some people verily whole fiqh areas have used to justify that not all bid'a are bad. They go on to argue that bid'a is permissible of two types:
1) When something is done to facilitate worship so long as it is not considered like a Sunnah/Mustahab or Fard.
2) When something new is introduced to provide a new form of the same thing outside worship. Surely to take a bus from Mina to Muzdallifah is a bid'a but using ijtihad people have factored out its permissibility.
Other fiqh schools do not call 2) bid'a at all, but they still insist that 1) is bid'a and reprehensible.
It is not necessarily an issue of 'aqeedah as everyone is in agreement that 'dhikr' is a requirement in Islam it is the method of how that dhikr is done which is under contention. There are some references used which are indeed weak that support the practice of collective dhikr. Some schools allow weak hadith to form a ruling for 'amal but others do not. These are valid differences in opinion.
I am just living my Islamic life trying very hard to reconcile difference and doing that what increases my iman and puts khushoh in my worship. If I feel something is doing that and there are scholars in place to sanction the actions then I take the step that I am required to make. May Allah (SWT) show me the truth and guide me to what Pleases Him. And for us all. Ameen.