Islam's Reformers .pdf

time, and for the accurateness of the diagnosis is Mawdûdî’sown words, which are incompatible with Islam’s basic teachingsand which are written in the paragraphs above. May Allâhuta’âlâ protect Muslim children against being misled by heretical,aberrant ideas. Âmin.47 - Before explaining the way taken by Sayyid Qutb, it willbe useful to give some information about his adviser,Muhammad ’Abduh (1265/1849-1323/1905, Egypt). His articlesin Al-waqâyi’ al-Misriyya, an Egyptian paper of his time, in themagazine Al-Manâr and in the paper Al-Ahrâm reveal hisheretical thoughts. He had some activities in Beirut for a while,too, but the Ahl as-Sunna scholars perceived his evil purposesand he had to go to Paris. There, he cooperated with Jamâl addînal-Afghânî, who had been preparing the application ofmasonic plans against Islam, and they published the magazineAl-’urwat al-wuthqâ. Then he returned to Beirut and Egypt,and began to apply the decisions made in Paris and tomisguide the youth. The government of Khidiw Tawfîq Pasha,seeing that his lectures and articles were harmful, employedhim in one of the offices of the law-court. Yet he continued towrite so as to sabotage Islam, which was a part of the masonicplans. With the help of freemasons he became the Muftî ofCairo. He began to attack the Ahl as-Sunna. As the first activity,he attempted to change the curriculum of the madrasa of Jâmi’al-Azhar, thus preventing the youth from valuable courses. Heabrogated the graduate courses in the universities, so that theybegan to teach books that had been prepared for senior andjunior high schools. Freemasons had already done the samething in the Ottoman Empire; after the Tanzîmât (a turning pointin the Ottoman history marked by the political reforms in 1839),scientific courses had been abrogated from the madrasas andthe religious education had been deprived of high-level courses.All these were done because Islam was established uponknowledge, without which and without any real religious manleft Islam would be doomed to extinction. When there is nocloud, to expect rain would mean to expect miracles. Allâhuta’âlâ is able to make this, but His Divine Law of Causation isnot so. Education of an Islamic scholar requires the reappearingand spreading of Islamic knowledge and the elapse of ahundred years. The enemies tried to extinguish the Islamic sun.Hannâ Abî Râshid, chief of the masonic lodge in Beirut,- 190 -