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ourselves among hundreds of thousands of hadîths, we may,
having an allergy, suffer harm instead of getting better, thus
getting our desert for being ignorant. It is for this reason that it
was declared in a hadîth: “He who interprets the Qur’ân in
accordance with his own understanding becomes a
disbeliever.” Since lâ-madhhabîs and the like cannot
understand this subtlety, they say, “Everybody should
understand his faith by himself by reading the Qur’ân and
hadîths. He should not read the books of the four madhhabs.”
By saying this they prevent the books of the Ahl-i sunnat
savants from being read. The Persian book Radd-i Wahhâbî
gives excellent answers to these slanders of the Lâ-madhhabîs.
Also in the 97th letter of the second volume of Maktûbât, Imâm-i
Rabbânî Ahmad Fâruqî answers them, too.
As a final word, I would like to say that Walî means ‘an ahl-i
sunnat scholar who has attained the love and the consent of
Allâhu ta’âlâ’ and ‘The Ahl-i sunnat Madhhab’ means ‘the way
shown by Qur’ân-al-karîm and hadîths.’ The savants of the
Ahl-i sunnat learned this way from the Ashâb-i kirâm. They
respected not what they understood, but what they heard from
the Ashâb-i kirâm. “To dissent from the Ahl-i sunnat’ means ‘to
dissent from the right way of the Qur’ân and hadîths.’ Of these
people, even who dissent from the Ahl-i sunnat and who
misunderstand occult indications in the Qur’ân and in wellknown
hadîths, do not become kâfirs; they become holders of
bid’at. They start deceiving ignorant people by calling their
wrong derivations ‘The way of the Qur’ân,’ ‘The way of the
Ashâb.’
In order to attain the consent and love of Allahu ta’âlâ, it is
necessary for us to have ikhlâs and qalb-i salîm. Purification of
the heart is only possible by believing in Rasûlullah (sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam), by loving and by being dependent on him. To
do this, the shortest and easiest way is to know a Walî and to
establish râbita with him, that is, to become attached to him by
heart, provided that we learn the Ahl-i sunnat i’tiqâd, Sharî’at
and manners of tasawwuf from his words and books. A Walî is
understood to be a Walî from the document given to him by his
master in a written form, and from the suitability of all of his
words and actions to Sharî’at. In times when such a Walî can
not be seen, one who does râbita with any Walî will become his
Uwaysî. In the 286th letter of Maktûbat, it is stated: “Someone
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