Africawalla,the above post should read: How, can you elaborate? I meant how you can use Qur'an as a benchmark!!!!!! I had love to know this one!!!!
Shias and Sunnis follow five basic piller of Islam. This is mentioned in Quran.. You and your fellow Ismailies have agreed to that... Some have additional like bohras follow two more... So it is seven. But still the first five remain. Even we dawoodi bohras are very strict about following this first five pillers of Islam.. I have been praying salaat, keeping fasts, reciting sahada, giving zakat etc right from my mid teens. Now this is what I call benchmark. We can keep discussing this again and again and again. But this will not change..