Why do Muslims

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   Thanks for your response, rami.  I know I'm trying your patience and I know you put a great deal of time into your comments.  I think we are closer to understanding each other than we were before, so I have found it a benefit.

 rami wrote:

The scholars have gone through all the ahadith and categorised all his statements to being personnel to him alone or actual teachings about islam, its not that hard but there have been some small cases of confusion due to differences of opinions but this is the exception and not the rule.

I think it would be very hard indeed, otherwise anyone could consider himself to be an Islamic scholar.  Even the authenticity of the hadiths themselves are often contested.
Just out of curiosity, though, how would you decide whether the Prophet's comments about beards are "about religion" or not?  The way I see it, we are given two things, and only two things, directly from Allah: the Quran, and our own intelligence.  If there is nothing in the Quran about beards (is there?), and my own common sense tells me that having a beard does not make me a better person, then I see no reason to assume that the Prophet's comments still apply today.
I'm guessing you see the burden of proof on the other side though, eh?  You need strong evidence that it doesn't apply before making that assumption.  I think that is our fundamental difference.

 It depends on the subject matter and that is what im trying to make you see that most of what he taught had a timeless nature becouse  the subject matter itself was timeless while other topics such as warfare does change overtime but the actions he took or things he said you can extract principles of law from, which can be applied to different situations at different times.

If that is what you are trying to make me see, then we were never far apart to begin with.  My impression was that you were claiming that all of what he taught had a timeless nature and that nothing of relevance had changed.

Why do Muslims

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