Quran vs. Hadith

I had found this website a long time ago (click on the title of this post), and I found it so down to earth and sensible. It explained certain aspects of religion that I always suspected were misinterpreted but couldn't figure out what was the right interpretation.

Granted, some parts of the site I can't seem to agree with. For example, their whole "numerology" system of the Quran being composed of the the miraculous number 19. Maybe I don't know math very well, but to me it sounded like trying to find a number when it is not really there. Who knows?

Anyway, my point is that sometimes I feel that Hadith really do complicate our lives. I think a lot of people refer to Hadith and Sunnath wayyyy too much. I feel Muslims don't refer to the Quran for answers anymore, and that by adding the Hadith they have complicated the religion by far more than it was supposed to be.

Like this article says, there are Hadith for even the simplest things in life such as how to drink a glass of water. It's ridiculous. Something like that doesn't contradict the Quran...mainly because the book remains silent on those aspects of life. But that is why we have it remain silent! So we can decide for ourselves how we want to drink a glass of water.

It's easier to sell someobody on this point of how to do simple aspects of human life. But what if I moved on to something more controversial? Women's dress has been one of those things. You would think the Quran spent pages and pages explaining exactly how a woman should be covered, when she should be covered, and what she should be covered with. But if you took all the words in the entire book that even mentions women's dress, you would be hard pressed to make a good solid paragraph. Even if you add in men's dress code.

There is another link to where the site mentioned this concept of women's dress, but to sum it up, I was surprised by what I read. There are only three rules for women (and men): 1) Wear the garment of rightousness 2) Cover your chest 3) Lengthen your garments

Three simple rules but somehow it became distorted with other ideas and other additions and other fabrications. There is even a debate about the word used in the Quran to cover the chest which is khimar. But honestly, I believe it when it says in the Quran that He has made religion easy for you (for those that believe).

All this is to say is that sometimes the harder issues in life can come up and when you go to refer to the true source, it's just harder to believe it sometimes because it seems like the answer in the Quran is much more simple than what people around you practice or what people around you would say if you decided to do things within your limits.

It stinks. (And I'm not talking about how to dress, I'm just talking about things in general and things that are complex).