Islam's Reformers .pdf

who were adherent to Islam from public property is anotherslander against Islamic Khalîfas. I have given its answerdetailedly in the forty-fourth paragraph. Pages of reasonablywritten histories and of the books of Islamic scholars are fullwith writings refuting these slanders of his.“With a comparison to Hadrat ’Umar’s disposal of prohibitingal-muallafat al-qulûb from being given zakât, we can do somesimilar disposals on the expenditures of zakât. We may, insteadof giving them in cash or in gold, establish factories andindustrial foundations for them. We can buy shares for them insome foundations and institutions. Thus they will be providedwith a continual source of food and income far from themeaning of a temporary gifting, which is incompatible withtoday’s civil requirements and which is sacrificed in vain.” (Page298)All as-Sahâbat al-kirâm were profound scholars, mujtahids.Especially the Four Khalîfas were Rasûlullah’s (sall-Allâhu’alaihi wa sallam) counsellors when he was alive andrepresentatives after his death. It is declared in a hadîth, “Holdfast to my path and, after me, to the path led by the FourKhalîfas! Their path is the right path.” We have to follow theunanimity of as-Sahâbat al-kirâm. Of the teachings which theycommunicated unanimously, a person who disbelieves the onesthat are widespread among Muslims becomes a disbeliever.Sayyid Qutb thinks he is a mujtahid like ’Umar (radiy-Allâhu’anh). He attempts to change the list of people whom zakât willbe given. Our religion has declared clearly to whom and howzakât will be given. For a thousand years no scholar hasattempted to change this. Our religion has also explained verywell how to establish a source of income for the poor with zakât.A Muslim who has well understood Islam will easily find out howto establish factories and industrial foundations and how tosupport jihâd and pious foundations in a way suitable with Islamwith the money of zakât. The techniques of doing this aredesribed in the book Endless Bliss, I, 7. Islam has shown howMuslims will work in each century and the ways of utilizing theinventions of the century. There is no reason or necessity forthe anti-madhhabite people such as Sayyid Qutb to attempt tochange Islam.Of the four kinds of zakât goods, the zakât of crops andanimals and the zakât which is collected from importers by the- 232 -