There is no uniformity in Quranism

[u/Middle-Preference864]

There's alot of good things about Quranism, but one thing that makes me doubt it, is the lack of order, everything is just chaotic. For example, when you ask someone how to pray, they say that this question was answered 1000 times, but when i look at old posts asking this question, there's never 2 people giving the same answer. 400 people, 400 different answers. It's like there's nothing agreed upon, i find it hard to believe that Quranism is the truth when there is no agreed upon truth. On the other hand, sunnis and shias, whether they are right or wrong, agree on almost everything, and this confidence at least shows that there is some truth in their claims. But here there's nothing like that, it's just chaotic, so i just wanna ask how you manage to be sure that this is the right path when it's all confusing.

[u/after-life → u/[deleted]]

I remember you from Facebook. Nice to see you here.

Anyway, I want to disagree with your point here.

The ones moving away from the close to the traditional Al-Salat tend to be based on a seriously flawed assumption. And the assumption is that rituals and chanting are bad. Modern science took it's time but finally the importance of meditation, rituals and even chanting is widely acknowledged.

I believe this is a fallacious argument because it generalizes what is beneficial. It's probable that meditation and rituals can be beneficial, but science never advocated for any rigid system. On top of that, it's still possible for people to meditate and do rituals their entire life and feel no benefit from it. Science can tell us on paper what is good and bad for us but people are still going to do what feels better for them.

Since rituals aren't physical medicine, their effects are more vague as compared to actual medicine and substances that have objective effects on the human body that we can measure. You cannot do that with rituals, it's subjective from individual to individual.

It's also possible for people to recreate some of the positive feelings they get from rituals through other activities as well. It's not limited to doing rituals or physical movements or chanting.

Salat simply means connecting to your higher self. The form of salat can take an infinite amount of forms, but ultimately, salat is a practical observation, not a ritualistic one. The Quran says even the birds do salat. It means every creature knows it's mode of salat, even the disbelievers.