By: u/LogicalAwareness9361
The salafis, sunnis, Shias, ahmaddiyahs, the Quranists.
The Quran argues against using the Quran to fit your nafs and desires but arguably every single person is somewhat biased based on their upbringing, own moral code etc - so who’s to say what is based on their own nafs and what is truly the Qurans message?
The salafis argue that progressives use their nafs, the progressives say it’s the salafis. The sunnis say it’s Shias, the Shias say it’s Sunnis.
So how do we know?
Note: I’m speaking in broad terms only for simplicity - I know not every member of these groups truly believe every other is corrupt etc
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You dont.
By following the tafsirs of the first 3 noble generations, and by sticking to the consensus of the scholars.
The consensus tends to be the Sunni position, in between moderate and traditional.
Maybe talk to a philosopher of morality and ethics? Sound reasoning and fact checking is the only antidote to questions of bias.
Religions of all stripes have been bent for great good and great evil. There is no certainty when interpreting ancient texts as the context has been lost to time, no matter how good you think your knowledge of history is.
