Escaping One Extreme Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Fall Into Another
No label protects a person from being led astray, not Sunni, not Shia, not “Quran alone.” Rejecting Hadith doesn’t automatically remove ego, bias, emotional reasoning, arrogance, or the human tendency to interpret things the way we want to.
I’ve seen people in this community (and every other community) go to extremes. Some become overly rigid, some become overly dismissive, and some become so convinced they’ve “escaped deception” that they stop questioning themselves completely.
You can reject Hadith and still:
• twist verses to fit your worldview,
• become intellectually arrogant,
• excuse harmful behavior,
• fall into conspiratorial thinking,
• dismiss all scholarship and history entirely,
• confuse cynicism with intelligence,
• or speak about God with more certainty than humility.
Some people equate rejecting more and more things with becoming more intelligent or enlightened, when in reality that constant dismissal without balance can become its own form of intellectual blindness.
The Quran repeatedly calls people toward reflection, sincerity, justice, humility, and self-awareness because human beings are still vulnerable to misleading themselves regardless of what group/ideology they identify with.
I think one of the best protections against extremism (in any direction) is the willingness to continuously reevaluate yourself with honesty and humility. Not because anyone can become perfectly objective, but because self-correction is part of staying sincere.