In celebration of the birth of the Prophet Muḥammad organized by the Ministry of Endowments [Awqāf] last Monday, the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib delivered a speech that clearly manifested that the war launched against the Quranists has not ended yet.
Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib attacked the calls of the Quranists on rejecting the authority of Ḥadīth and relying on the Quran as the sole source for legislation. He accused them of neglecting the words, advises, and practices of the Prophet Muḥammad and his companion, “without which we, Muslims, would not have come to know how to perform prayer,” al-Ṭayyib argued.
In his speech on the same occasion, President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī, wondered: “What would harm Islam more, those who call on following the Quran, the direct words of God, or our own misconception of the Sunnah?”
Dr. Aḥmad Ṣubḥī Manṣūr, the Egyptian renown Islamic scholar and founder of the Quranist trend of Egypt, believes that the question of the Egyptian president has unveiled the existing conflict between President ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī and Dr. Aḥmad al-Ṭayyib.
