The moment you recite the Kalimah:

[kalamazoo]

‘La ilaha illa’llah Muhammadu’ r-rasulu’ llah’,
you accept that the only law you recognize is the law of God,
only God is your sovereign, only God is your ruler, only God you will obey,
and only the things given in God’s Book and by His Messengers are true and right.
It means that as soon as you become Muslims you must renounce your authority in favour of God’s authority.

 

[kalamazoo]

Consequently, you have no right to say, ‘My opinion is this, the prevalent custom is
this, the family tradition is this, that scholar and that holy person say this’. In the face
of Allah’s word and His Messenger’s Sunnah, you cannot argue in this manner. You
should judge everything in the light of the Qur’an and Sunnah; accept what is in
conformity with them and reject what runs counter to them, irrespective of the people
who may be behind them.
It is a contradiction in terms to call yourselves Muslims on
the one hand, and, on the other, follow your own opinions or the customs of society or
some person’s words or actions as against the Qur’an and the Sunnah.
Just as a blind
person cannot claim to have eyes, nor a deaf person to have ears, so a person who
refuses to subordinate the affairs of his life to the dictates of the Qur’an and the
Sunnah cannot call himself a Muslim.
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[Aapa]

Assalaam alaikum,

And that is the truth. You seek knowledge so you can understand the faith but it all comes back to the Sunnah and Quran.