User talk:Ahmad Shah Bukhari

I want to make articles about Peer Shakir Ali Noori Sahib and Organisation he founded ; Sunni Dawat-e-Islami.Will you help me?Cause i Googled it but didn't found many much info to create an article.Only site giving info is www.sunnidawateislami.com,which is insufficient for both articles.Will you help me for getting more references,creating these two articles??Please reply fast,i'm waiting.

Coercorash (talk) 07:08, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Why the revert at Barelvi?
Greetings, why did you revert Barelvi to an earlier draft? We'd added better references to published sources, but you wanted to revert to having the theological points cited to that Irshad website. Why the changes? They didn't even seem to be content-based, but were just chopping out footnotes. MatthewVanitas (talk) 06:27, 12 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Citing Quran and hadith directly, other than in articles about Quran and hadith issues, is WP:OR (original research). Wikipedia is not a place for self-made Quranic exegesis by anonymous individuals.  It's inappropriate to quote the Quran directly to, for example, support religious beliefs of the Barelvis, as clearly other groups have read the exact same words and come to very, very different conclusions.  Instead, you have to quote reputable, neutral scholarship saying "Group X believes the following, offering as evidence Hadith #373, noting that... "  Read Manual_of_Style_(Islam-related_articles) if you have any questions. MatthewVanitas (talk) 03:18, 13 July 2010 (UTC)


 * If you can add Quranic/hadith input in a way which is not Original Research, that could definitely be helpful. For that though, you'd need a reputable, neutral, secondary source that clearly says "The Barelvis do/don't do XYZ act, giving as their reason  Hadith #238 which says ABC "  Just keep in mind that you have to look at these issues through outside eyes, so not a "we Barelvis say this and we're right" thing, but a "this is what Barelvis say, and the reason, academically speaking, that they say this."  While the article is locked, I suggest you post your proposed content at Discussion so we can get it polished up and ready to go. MatthewVanitas (talk) 10:50, 13 July 2010 (UTC)