8-Belief and Islam - Hakikat Kitabevi

’ulamâ’ of Ahl as-Sunna (rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaihim ajma’în),
who are the successors of Salaf as-sâlihîn, defend the
teachings of i’tiqâd of Ahl as-Sunna, which was the madhhab of
the Salaf as-sâlihîn, and, in the books which they have written
up to our time and which they are still writing today, they inform
that Ibn Taimiyya, ash-Shawkânî and the like have dissented
from the way of Salaf as-sâlihîn and have been drifting Muslims
towards perdition and Hell.
Those who read the books At-tawassuli bi ’n-Nabî wa bi
’s-sâlihîn, Ulamâ’ al-muslimîn wa ’l-mukhâlifûn, Shifâ’ assiqam
and its preface, Tat’hîr al-fu’âd min danasi ’l-i’tiqâd,
will realize that the people who invented the corrupt beliefs
called “New Salafiyya” are leading Muslims towards perdition
and demolishing Islam from within.
Nowadays, some mouths frequently use the name of
‘Salafiyya.’ Every Muslim should know very well that in Islam
there is nothing in the name of the madhhab of Salafiyya but
there is only the madhhab of Salaf as-sâlihîn, who were the
Muslims of the first two Islamic centuries which were lauded in a
hadîth sherîf. The ’ulamâ’ of Islam who came in the third and
fourth centuries are called Khalaf as-sâdiqîn. The i’tiqâd of
these honourable people is called the madhhab of Ahl as-
Sunnat wa ’l-Jamâ’a. This is the madhhab of îmân, tenets of
faith. The îmân held by the Sahâbat al-kirâm and by the Tâbi’în
was the same. There was no difference between their beliefs.
Today most Muslims on the earth are in the madhhab of Ahl as-
Sunna. All the seventy-two heretical groups of bid’a appeared
after the second century of Islam. Founders of some of them
lived earlier, but it was after the Tâbi’în that their books were
written and that they appeared in groups and defied Ahl as-
Sunna.
Rasûlullah (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam) brought the beliefs
of Ahl as-Sunna. The Sahâbat al-kirâm derived these teachings
of îmân from the source. And the Tâbi’în Izâm, in their turn,
learned these teachings from the Sahâbat al-kirâm. And from
them their successors learned; thus the teachings of Ahl as-
Sunna reached us by way of transmission and tawâtur. These
teachings cannot be explored by way of reasoning. Intellect
cannot change them and will only help to understand them.
That is, intellect is necessary for understanding them, for
realizing that they are right and for knowing their value. All the
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