Oh but my friend, Identifying yourself is a prerequisite before one gets into polemics.
You insist on keeping your own credentials a secret…now that is a tad silly don’t you agree. One only does that when one is only blowing air and has nothing of substance to throw at another. Like a degree perhaps or maybe an ijaza, possibly even a text book.
You see one needs to clear the venue and set the grounds before any activity and in your case you need to state where you are coming from.
Your own self description is also the same a follower of Louis Farrakhan or Mirza Ghulam Ahmed would say. You can hardly call these people Muslims right? Much less get into a debate on how long ones trousers should be in the Sunnah. Likewise after knowing your background or lack of one we will be in a position to better educate/sorry discuss with you the fine details and nuances of Usool and there relative understandings.
We are not assuming you have a well rounded Islamic education but simply asking to what level you have or haven’t. That is not being too unresonable don’t you think?
However you, my friend are being very unreasonable. You come on to this forum. Try to rip apart a most beautiful poem with out a shred of evidence. (Quoting a Quranic Ayah with out its commentary is not good enough) and then have the nerve to say “show me the evidence.” Friend, it is YOU who needs to show credible evidence with multiple back-ups and with no gaps or flaws in it for us to listen to you and take you seriously.
You mentioned in your post that you take from the strongest position. That sounds like a Mujtahid to me. I dare say you don’t even know the Usool’s that will enable you to derive ruling based on what you call “strongest evidence.”
Put simply, I think you are of the Wahabi/Najadi persuasion and as such understand your misgivings but still you need to come with evidence before we can challenge it.
Hope all is well and you have not found this to offend you. Although sweating (if occurring) is normal.
We humbly await your reply or lack of a reply.
Forever yours truly