How Hadith Hijacked Revelation and Emptied Islam of God

There is a hard truth that most Muslims are unwilling to confront, not because it is complex, but because it is devastating. The Qur’an, the very Book they claim to revere, has been functionally sidelined, overridden, and in many cases replaced by a parallel authority that it never authorised. That authority is Hadith. And its elevation has not brought Muslims closer to God, but further away from Him.

The Qur’an does not belong to Muslims. Muslims do not have a monopoly on it, nor are they its gatekeepers. The Qur’an presents itself as guidance for mankind, for those who reason, for those who reflect, for those who seek truth, regardless of labels. It does not introduce a new religion. It repeatedly states that it confirms what came before and restores what was lost. It calls people back to alignment with the Source, not into an identity group. Yet today, Islam has been transformed into a closed religious system, policed by clerics, guarded by inherited dogma, and sustained by texts written long after the Prophet’s death.

The Qur’an never once instructs the believer to follow Hadith. It never names Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmidhi, or any compiler. It never authorises a secondary corpus of sayings to sit alongside it, explain it, override it, or complete it. On the contrary, it repeatedly describes itself as complete, fully detailed, clarified, and sufficient. It warns explicitly against following other narrations, other sayings, other authorities after God’s revelation. The question Muslims refuse to answer honestly is simple: if the Qur’an is complete as it states that it is, then what exactly are Hadith completing?

The answer is not divine guidance. The answer is power.

Hadith literature emerged generations after the Prophet, compiled under empire, during a time of civil war, political rivalry, and state expansion. These narrations were not preserved by divine promise. They were transmitted orally for decades, sometimes centuries, before being written down. They passed through chains of men, each with political allegiances, tribal loyalties, theological agendas, and personal incentives. The science invented to authenticate them is circular, self-referential, and based on trusting the very class that benefited from Hadith authority in the first place.

Through Hadith, Islam was transformed from a Qur’an-centred call to righteousness into a behavioural control system and the focus shifted from inner moral accountability to external compliance; from conscience to ritual; from justice to jurisprudence; from God-consciousness to clock-watching. Muslims were taught not how to think, but how to obey. Not how to read, but who to follow.

This was not accidental. It mirrors precisely what happened to previous communities. Jews elevated the Talmud over the Torah. Christians elevated Church councils, creeds, and gospels written by unknown authors over the message of Jesus. In every case, scripture was not denied, but buried beneath layers of interpretation, tradition, and institutional authority. Islam followed the same trajectory, only later, and with greater sophistication.

Hadith did something more insidious than contradict the Qur’an. It reframed God. It presented Him as petty, obsessed with minutiae, offended by trivialities, and arbitrarily punitive. It reduced the Prophet from a messenger delivering revelation into a micromanager of personal habits. It injected superstition, misogyny, violence, and absurdity into a Book that repeatedly appeals to reason, balance, and moral clarity. It normalised shirk by teaching people to obey scholars, sheikhs, madhhabs, and narrators as intermediaries between man and God.

This is why the Qur’an itself warns that the Messenger will complain that his people abandoned the Book. Not burned it. Not denied it. Abandoned it. Recited it beautifully. Decorated it. Swore oaths upon it. But did not govern their lives by it. Instead, they followed hearsay, inherited religion, and the comfort of crowds.

The word “Islam” itself has been weaponised. In the Qur’an, it simply means submission to God. It is a state of alignment, not a brand. Not a tribe. Not a civilisation. But today it functions as a religious identity marker, complete with flags, aesthetics, political loyalties, and defensive reflexes. To be Muslim now often means to defend a civilisation, not to submit to truth. To protect tradition, not to question it. To follow scholars, not revelation.

This suited the parasitic fire-born elite perfectly. A Qur’an-centric population is dangerous. It resists tyranny. It questions authority. It does not outsource morality. It recognises injustice even when performed by religious leaders. A Hadith-centric population, however, can be managed. Its ethics can be bent. Its outrage can be redirected. Its loyalty can be captured. It can be convinced to obey rulers, endure oppression, and prioritise ritual correctness over moral courage.

Today’s Muslim world is the result. Billions of people who claim to follow the final revelation, yet rarely read it directly. Who memorise narrations about beards and bathrooms but ignore verses about justice, usury, tyranny, and truth. Who argue endlessly over sects while the Qur’an lies open, warning them against division. Who defend texts that contradict God while insisting they are protecting the Prophet.

The tragedy is that many sincere Muslims feel something is wrong. They feel spiritually dry, intellectually constrained, and morally conflicted, but the system has trained them to interpret doubt as deviance, questions as danger, and independence as arrogance. So they retreat deeper into ritual and identity, mistaking repetition for faith. The answer is not to become a “Qur’anist” as another label. The answer is not to form another sect. The answer is not to replace one authority with another. The answer is to return to alignment with God. To read the Qur’an as it asks to be read; slowly, honestly, and directly, without intermediaries, without fear and without inherited filters.

The Qur’an does not need defending, it needs engaging. It does not ask for blind belief because it challenges, it confronts, it unsettles and it threatens every false power structure on Earth. That is why it was surrounded, that is why it was buried beneath Hadith and that is precidely why Muslims were taught to fear approaching it alone.

The greatest deception Iblīs ever pulled was not convincing people to reject God. It was convincing them they were already following Him, while quietly leading them elsewhere.

Return to the Book, not as Muslims in the traditional sense, not as members of a religion, but as human beings standing alone before their Creator.

That is where Islam actually begins.