The Majority

Argumentum ad populum

In argumentation theory, an argumentum ad populum (Latin for "appeal to the people") is a fallacious argument that concludes that a proposition must be true because many or most people believe it, often concisely encapsulated as: "If many believe so, it is so".

Qur'anic point of view

The majority isn't the best barometer of what is true — we should ascertain the truth of the matter, in and of itself, irrespective of how many people believe in it. Obviously, the following snippets must be read within their context in the passages they inhabit.

2:100 ... the majority do not believe (in The One God)

2:243. ... majority are ungrateful.

3:110 ... the majority are wicked.

4:114 ... the majority whispers lies.

5:32 ... the majority are transgressors

5:49 ... majority are wicked

5:59 ... majority are wicked

5:62 ... the majority hasten to sin and transgression and consuming money illicitly. Miserable indeed is what they were doing.

5:64 ... the majority are rebels and rejecters

5:66 ... the majority practice on indecency.

5:71 ... the majority are blind and deaf;

5:81 ... the majority are wicked

5:103 ... the majority do not use common sense.

6:37 ... the majority do not understand ..

6:111 ... the majority do not understand ..

6:116 ... the majority would lead you astray they follow nothing but mere surmise and they do nothing but make conjectures.

6:119. ... The majority wants to mislead you with their interests ..

7:17 ... the majority are ungrateful

7:102 ... the majority are fasikun (immoral)

7:131 ... majority do not actually know.

7:187 ... majority do not actually know

8:34 ... the majority do not actually know.

9:8 ... the majority is wicked ..

10:36 ... the majority following conjecture ..

10:55 ... the majority do not actually know

10:60 ... the majority are ungrateful

10:92 ... the majority are heedless..

11:17 ... the majority do not believe the Quran.

12:21 ... the majority do not actually know

12:38 ... the majority are ungrateful

12:40 ... the majority do not actually know.

12:68 ... the majority do not actually know.

12:103 ... the majority do not believe

12:106 ... the majority do not believe without associating others with God (mushrik)

13:1 .... the majority do not believe ...

16:38 ... the majority do not actually know.

16:75 ... the majority do not actually know.

16:83 ... the majority are Kufr

16:101 ... the majority do not actually know.

17:89 ... the majority are Kufr

21:24 ... the majority do not know what is right and wrong.

21:93 ... the majority disintegrated because of their made religion.

23:70 ... the majority do not like the truth.

25:44 ... the majority are more astray than livestock

25:50 ... the majority do not want to hear the truth but continue to deny.

26:8 ... the majority do not believe.

26:121 ... the majority do not believe

26:139 ... the majority do not believe

26:158 ... the majority do not believe

26:174 ... the majority do not believe

26:190 ... the majority do not believe.

27:61 ... the majority actually do not know.

27:73 ... the majority are ungrateful

28:13 ... the majority do not actually know

28:57 ... the majority do not actually know

29:63 ... the majority did not really understand

30:6 The majority actually do not know ...

30:30 ... the majority do not actually know

30:42 ... the majority are actually polytheists

31:25 ... the majority do not actually know

33:72 ... the majority were wrong and like to do wrongs.

34:28 ... the majority do not actually know

34:36 ... the majority do not actually know

34:41 ... the majority devoted to AlJinn.

36:7 ... the majority do not believe

37:71 ... the majority of the past were misguided

39:29 ... the majority do not actually know

39:49 ... the majority do not actually know

40:57 ... the majority do not actually know

40:59 ... the majority do not believe

40:61 ... majority are ungrateful

41:4 ... the majority turned disobedient

43:78 ... the majority do not like the truth

44:39 ... the majority do not actually know

45:26 ... the majority do not actually know

49:4 ... the majority do not understand.

52:47 ... the majority do not actually know

57:26 ... the majority are wicked

71:24 ... the majority are astrayed by leaders who are increasingly in loss

(researched by Wan Ibnul Bahar)

Do not reach conclusions about that of which you have no knowledge. (Using your senses and intellect, you must verify it for yourself.) Surely, the hearing, the sight and the faculty of reasoning – all of them – will be questioned (17:36)

This guidance is also found internally within us, and surfaces in wise people...