No matter how much is said...

No matter how much is said, and regardless of where the accent marks are placed when one recites [the original Arabic text of] this verse, al-Fakhr al-Razi, who is one of the most famous scholars of Arabic among "Ahl al-Sunnah wal Jama`a," has said that the feet have to be rubbed (or wiped).[^246] Ibn Hazm has also said, "Whether the accent mark is placed underneath or above the laam, it is at any rate an injunction joining the heads in the same action (as that done to the feet), and no other possibility is valid."[^247] Yet although he admits that the Qur'an mandates the rubbing of the feet in either case, al-Fakhr al-Razi is found fanatically supporting his Sunni sect and saying, "...

but the Sunnah came to mandate the washing of the feet, thus abrogating the Qur'an."[^248] Such an example of the alleged Sunnah which over-rules or abrogates the Qur'an has many similar examples to be found with "Ahl al-Sunnah wal Jama`a." Quite a few fabricated ahadith idle Allah's commandments based on the [false] claim that the Messenger of Allah was the one who abrogated it.

If we examine the verse referring to the ablution in Surat al-Maaida and take into consideration the consensus of Muslims that this Sura was the very last one revealed of the Holy Qur'an__it is said that it was revealed only two months before the demise of the Prophet __how and when did the Prophet abrogate the injunction in it referring to ablution?!

The Prophet had already spent twenty-three years performing his ablution, rubbing (not washing) his feet, doing so many times each day; is it reasonable to accept that only two months before his death, and after his having received the verse saying, "... and wipe your heads and feet," he deliberately washed his feet contrarily to the commandment revealed in Allah's Book?! This is unbelievable...

How can people believe that such a Prophet invited them to uphold the Book of Allah and to act according to it, telling them, "This Book guides to what is best," actually does the opposite of what the Qur'an enjoins?!

Would his opponents, the polytheists and the hypocrites, then say to him, "Since you yourself do the opposite of what the Qur'an enjoins, how can you order us to follow it?!" The Prophet would then find himself in an embarrassing situation, not knowing how to refute their argument; so, we do not believe such a claim, a claim which reason and tradition reject and is rejected by anyone who knows the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger.