Islam's Reformers .pdf

He wanted Islam’s basis to change in every century. Hesupposed that we ignorant people could change Islam as wewished. He could not understand the fact that we, who are notmujtahids but muqallids, could not lay our hands upon or speakill of Islamic knowledge. Islamic knowledge has two divisions:religious knowledge and scientific knowledge. Religiousknowledge which is stated openly in the Qur’ân and the Hadîthcannot be changed by the great scholars who are mujtahids,either. Besides, there is no great scholar who is in the grade ofijtihâd today. It is not permissible to modify even those acts ofworship pertaining to buying and selling, nikâh [1] andpunishments in contempt of the conditions stipulated by Islam.Sayyid Qutb’s attempts to change Islam was intended to bringFrench and socialistic laws in place of Allâhu ta’âlâ’scommands. As a matter of fact, these wishes of his have beenquoted and refuted in the preceding paragraphs.“Islam is a whole. Its separated parts should be united, andthe differences should be removed.” (Page 35)Religious knowledge in Islam is divided into two sections:1) Facts that are to be believed through heart.2) Things that are to be done with the heart or the body.The knowledge to be believed through heart is certainly awhole and was taught by Rasûlullah (’alaihi ’s-salâm) andconveyed by as-Sahâbat al-kirâm. Learning this knowledgefrom them, the Ahl as-Sunna scholars wrote this knowledge intheir books. All Muslims have to read these books and unite inthe same one îmân. Muslims should unite, and there should notbe disagreement or faction. For achieving this, all Muslimsshould unite in the belief of Ahl as-Sunna, which is the only rightpath, and they should not deviate into the heretical groupsprophesied by our Prophet (’alaihi ’s-salâm). There cannot beanother way for unity. It was necessary also for Sayyid Qutb tolearn this knowledge of îmân and not to spread the absurdheresies born from his head and from the head of his notoriousmasonic master, Muhammad ’Abduh, under the name ofreligious knowledge and not to cause faction. But, with hisabove-quoted writing, Sayyid Qutb attacked the four true[1] Marriage contract as dictated by Islam. Please see Endless Bliss,V, 12 for detail.- 228 -