Islam's Reformers .pdf

was the chief of the freemasonic lodge in Egypt. He imbuedEgyptians with revolutionary ideas. In order to increase hisfame, he pretended to side with those who prepared the eventof “A’râbî Pasha” against the British. He made friends withMuhammad ’Abduh, the muftî of Egypt. He imbued him with hisreformatory thoughts. Muhammad ’Abduh wrote: “Before I sawJamâl ad-dîn my eyes had been blind, my ears deaf and mytongue dumb.” In London and in Paris, Jamâl ad-dîn wrotemany harmful articles on reform in the religion. In 1886 he cameto Iran. He did not keep quiet there, either. Fastened withchains he was left inside the Ottoman borders by five hundredcavalrymen. He went to Baghdad and London. He wrote articlesagainst Iran. Thence he came to Istanbul, where, co-operatingwith the Bahâ’îs [1] he exploited the religion as a means forpolitics. He tried to stir up an insurrection in Iran. A year later,his chin became cancerous and he died in 1314 A.H. (1897).He was buried in the Cemetery of Shaikhs near the MaçkaBarracks in Istanbul. An American had a tomb built for him.After the Second World War, his bones were taken toAfghanistan. Freemasons write differently about his hostilityagainst Islam, his revolutionary and mischievous adventures.They are not ashamed of saying “ignorant, reactionary” aboutthe Shaikh al-Islâms and Muslim scholars for the sheer purposeof proving that he was great.Great Muslim scholar Hadrat Sayyid Abdulhakîm Arwâsî (d.in 1362/1943) said, “It was Ibn Taimiyya who invented theheresy of reform in the religion first. Later on, this heresy wasled to unbelief by the ignorant and by the enemies of Islam.” IbnTaimiyya was born in Harrân in 661/1263 and caught a diseasethat caused his death in prison in a fortress in Damascus in728/1328. He did not like the Ahl as-Sunna scholars. He deniedtasawwuf entirely. He called Islam’s beloved scholars such asMuhyiddîn ibn al-’Arabî and Sadr ad-dîn al-Qonawî“disbelievers”. However, he was not too ignorant to know thathe who called a Muslim “disbeliver” would himself become adisbeliever. It is a shame he tried to adapt Islam to his ownopinion and narrow mind and, denying the facts which he couldnot comprehend, he went astray. ’Abd al-Wahhâb ash-Sha’rânî[1] A heretical group explained in the thirty-sixth chapter of the secondfascicle of Endless Bliss.- 132 -