Islam's Reformers .pdf

Rasûlullah (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam) gave the goodnews that a mujaddid would come and strengthen Islam in thebeginning of each century. And it has come true. In everycentury, Islam has illuminated the humanity in every fieldthrough the leadership of the Ahl as-Sunna scholars and hasbeen the source of civilization. In order to portray Ibn Taimiyyaas a source of illumination like the sun, Mawdûdî tries toenshroud the great Islamic civilization and to obscure theluminous skies of the century of the Tâbi’ûn, who were praisedin the Hadîth, and the following century. Those who readIslamic books and true histories written by reasonable pens inEurope will not have difficulty in comprehending his destructivetactics.He tries to strip the Ahl as-Sunna scholars of the meaning ofthe word ‘mujaddid’ in the hadîth we have quoted above. Heblames the Ahl as-Sunna scholars, e.g. Hadrat al-Imâm ar-Rabbânî, for having said that Hadrat al-Mahdî, who had beenmentioned in the Hadîth would be the mujaddid of the thirdmillenium. In addition, he insults Muslims and men of Tasawwufby calling them “ancient type reactionary people”. He makes funof sacred beliefs by saying, “Could jihâd be performed withspirituality, amulets and prayers and could tanks be destroyedwith malediction?” He stigmatizes those who believe so with thewords ‘populace’ and ‘ignorant’. He defends that al-Mahdî willbe far from the said spiritual values, that he will be “the mostmodern of the modern who has a deep authority in the mainproblems of life,” that he is afraid that scholars andmutasawwifs will clamour against the novelty which he willbring. However, in the times when Hadrat al-Mahdî will appear’Îsâ (’alaihi ’s-salâm) will descend from heaven and they willmeet each other, there will not be any Islamic scholar left on theearth and Islamic knowledge will have disappeared. Ignoranceand heresies, which Mawdûdî tries to impute on the earlyMuslim ages praised in the Hadîth, will appear in that futuretime as pointed out again in the Hadîth. The attacks of thepeople like Mawdûdî to the Ahl as-Sunna and their attempts toextinguish the Ahl as-Sunna knowledge indicate that thosegloomy days pointed out in the Hadîth are drawing near. WhenHadrat al-Mahdî will appear and renew the Ahl as-Sunnaknowledge, those same non-madhhabite people, heretics andreligion reformers will cry and oppose him and Hadrat al-Mahdî- 162 -