Thoughts on: Quran Alone

I have been curious about the Islamic sect 'quranists' or 'quran alone' as I first did a lot of my research on Islam on the website 'submission.org' and became more interested because I agreed with the information- that site as I have now found out is a 'quranist' site.

No matter, because I don't like to use labels or subscribe to any 'sect'- I do believe in following only what the Quran says but I also believe in utlizing the hadith and sunnah for extra guidance if they don't contradict or 'add to' the Quran.

Also, I was always shying away from Islam because of the emphasis placed on Prophet Muhammad- I respect him and all the other prophets but I don't believe in making him 'more important' than any other prophet and don't feel comfortable including mention of him in my salat- to me, that action is making him on the same scale as Allah and that is wrong to me. Why should I focus on being Muslim because of what Prophet Muhammad did- what about the other Prophets? Prophet Jesus was also a wonderful example of how to submit to Allah and be a good person. That bothered me and that is why I am drawn to being Muslim by what the Quran says as much as I'm able to understand- and no hadith or book can ever claim to 'explain' the Quran fully, as Allah said in it that this action would be impossible.

So I was doing some reading on 'quran alone' and the following sites were interesting.

It is annoying how some people say you need the hadith/sunnah to know how to do salat- it is in the Quran on how to do it [rakats, timings, what to say] You only have to look.



http://pressthat.wordpress.com/2007/05/16/quran-alone/
http://www.quran.org/
http://submission.org/dozen.html