Re: SALAAT VS NAMAAZ.... what is ur opinion?
For the record in each of these verses the Qur'an tells us to obey Allah (SWT) and Muhammad (SAW). So we should not separate Qur'an from Sunnah.
There are two red text sections below: the first one demonstrates how ijtihad/fatwa is done by using the sources of Qur'an and Sunnah. The second one can be meant to describe those people who differ in the interpretation of the Qur'an from the established Sunnah.
3:132 And obey Allah and the Apostle; that ye may obtain mercy.
4:59 O ye who believe! Obey Allah, and obey the Apostle, and those charged with authority among you. If ye differ in anything among yourselves, refer it to Allah and His Apostle, if ye do believe in Allah and the Last Day: That is best, and most suitable for final determination.
4:64 We sent not an apostle, but to be obeyed, in accordance with the will of Allah. If they had only, when they were unjust to themselves, come unto thee and asked Allah's forgiveness, and the Apostle had asked forgiveness for them, they would have found Allah indeed Oft-returning, Most Merciful.
4:80 He who obeys the Apostle, obeys Allah: But if any turn away, We have not sent thee to watch over their (evil deeds).
4:81 They have "Obedience" on their lips; but when they leave thee, a section of them Meditate all night on things very different from what thou tellest them. But Allah records their nightly (plots): So keep clear of them, and put thy trust in Allah, and enough is Allah as a disposer of affairs.
24:51 The answer of the Believers, when summoned to Allah and His Apostle, in order that He may judge between them, is no other than this: they say, "We hear and we obey": it is such as these that will attain felicity.
24:52 It is such as obey Allah and His Apostle, and fear Allah and do right, that will win (in the end),
47:33 O ye who believe! Obey Allah, and obey the apostle, and make not vain your deeds!
64:12 So obey Allah, and obey His Apostle: but if ye turn back, the duty of Our Apostle is but to proclaim (the Message) clearly and openly.