3-Endless Bliss Third Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

Kamâl, Halabî, Bâqânî, say, ‘One will make a sign. As a matter
of fact, Imâm-i Muhammad informed that Rasûlullah ‘sallallâhu
alaihi wa sallam’ used to do so.’ Also, it is written in the book
Muhît that it is sunnat to make a sign.” Ibni Âbidîn says, “It is
understood from Muhît that it is sunnat-i ghayr-i muakkada. As
a matter of fact, Aynî and Tuhfa inform that it is mustahab.” In
the book Nûr-ul-izâh, Sharnblâlî says, “What is sahîh is to
make a sign with one’s pointing finger,” and Tahtâwî objects to
this.
As it is seen, there are savants who say that it is harâm to
make the sign. There are fatwâs informing that it is makrûh.
There are many who say that one does not make the sign;
information of usûl states so. Then, it is not right for us, the
imitators, to attempt to make the sign by saying that there is a
hadîth confirming it, thus doing something which has been said
to be harâm or makrûh by the fatwâs of many mujtahids. If a
person in the Hanafî Madhhab makes the sign with his finger
despite the fatwâs informing that it is prohibited, this denotes
one of two opinions: 1 — It may come to mean that he thinks
these savants of dîn who reached the grade of ijtihâd did not
know of the mashhûr hadîths informing that one will make the
sign with one’s finger. 2 — Or it means that he thinks that they
heard of the hadîths but did not follow the hadîths and acted
upon their own thoughts and opinions. Both these opinions are
quite eccentric. To suppose so, one should be very mean and
quite obstinate. Also, the word, “Early savants used to make a
sign with their fingers in namâz. Afterwards, Râfidîs overflowed
the measure in doing this, so the savants of Hanafî prohibited
the Ahl as-sunnat from making the sign. Thus, the Sunnîs were
distinguished from the Râfidîs,” in the book Targhibussalât, is
incompatible with the information in valuable books. For, our
savants inform through (the branch of religious knowledge
termed) zâhir usûl not to make the sign or bend the finger. That
is, the early savants said not to make the sign. Then, this matter
has nothing to do with the Râfidîs. Since some of our religious
superiors said that one should not make the sign, what
devolves on us is to respect them, to mind our manners and
say: “If these superiors had not had the documentary evidence
showing that it would be harâm or makrûh to make a sign with
the finger, they would not say that it would be harâm or makrûh.
After communicating the reports informing that it is sunnat or
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