Islam's Reformers .pdf

“As Allâhu ta’âlâ has made pious deeds and worship meansfor attaining happiness and high grades, so He has made Hisbeloved, select human slaves, Anbiyâ’, Awliyâ’ and Sulahâ’,whom He has commanded us to love, intermediaries for theadmission of prayers. It is for this reason that as-Sahâbat alkirâmand all scholars performed tawassul when praying. Noneof them denied this. By giving wrong meaning to âyats andhadîths and denying many true reports, ahl al-bid’a have beendefiling Muslims’ îmân. They have been striving to cause Ahl alqibla(Muslims) to dissent from the right path. Any person, uponwhose lot Allâhu ta’âlâ has endowed auspicion and happiness,will learn the above evidences, and thereby escape the disasterof being deceived by those heretics.” [1]44 - Mawdûdî, in the first edition of this book The RevivalistMovement in Islam, slandered the Islamic faith and the Ahl as-Sunna scholars. Muslims with right belief in Pakistan began todefend themselves and refuted his slanders and hereticalthoughts with documents. Mawdûdî, altogether confused withthese righteous criticisms, had to tidy his book up. Changingsome of its parts and attempting to explain away some othersstupidly, he published it again. In order to save his face, hewrote in the preface, “Reviewing the parts which aremisunderstood, I have tried to prevent the heartbreakingcriticisms.” Nevertheless, in the same book, he did not give upspeaking ill of the words of reverence such as ‘Imâm’, ‘Hujjat al-Islâm’, ‘Qutb al-’ârifin’ and ‘Shaikh al-Islâm’, that had beenpresented to the Ahl as-Sunna scholars by Muslims, andproclaimed that he did not think the Ahl as-Sunna scholarsworth these high titles. On the other hand, in praising IbnTaimiyya and ’Abduh, who are documentedly proved to havehad departed from the Ahl as-Sunna, the right path, he did notneglect to write the words ‘Imâm’ and ‘Ustadh’ (master) beforetheir names. He generously lavished upon those heretics thetitles of honour which he so frugally retrenches from thescholars of Ahl as-Sunna. Titles of honour and personagesentitled to each are explained in detail on the four hundred andeighty-seventh page of the fifth volume of Radd al-muhtâr, anannotation to Ibn ’Âbidîn. It is written detailedly on page 487 ofthe fifth volume of Ibn ’Âbidîn’s Radd al-muhtâr for whom and[1] Yûsuf an-Nabhânî, Shawâhid al-haqq.- 156 -