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and prayers melodiously! Silence them! The fatwâ bookTâtârhâniyya writes that there is unanimity of scholars on that itis harâm to do these (acts of worship) melodiously. Thescholars of fiqh have put forward many evidences anddocuments showing that it is harâm.”2) “Migration to Medina was done under some compulsion,”he says. On the other hand, Islamic scholars report that theHegira was done not under fear, trouble or compulsion but withAllâhu ta’âlâ’s decree and permission. It is written in Almawâhibal-laduniyya, “Rasûlullah (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wasallam) commanded his companions to go from Mecca toMedina. He remained in Mecca, awaiting Allâhu ta’âlâ’spermission. One day, Jabrâ’il (’alaihi ’s-salâm) came and said,‘The unbelievers of Quraish will kill you. Do not sleep in yourbed tonight.’ The next day he brought the âyat permitting him tomigrate.” Islamic scholars said and wrote so decently aboutRasûlullah (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam).3) “Various opinions have been put forward in interpretingthe letters that exist at the beginning of some sûras of theQur’ân. We take one of these opinions, which counts them asindicating that the Qur’ân is made up of these letters,” he says.The Ahl as-Sunna scholars say, “These letters are of themutashâbihât; Allâhu ta’âlâ has concealed their numerousmeanings. He has revealed some of them only to His belovedProphet (’alaihi ’s-salâm) and to ’Ulamâ’ ar-râsihîn, who are hisinheritors.” It is declared clearly in other âyats that the Qur’ânwas sent down in Arabic letters. It is not something to beslighted that he gives such a meaning to these letters and isreluctant to write what Abû Bakr, ’Umar (radiy-Allâhu ’anhumâ)and the scholars of tafsîr said. This also betrays his crassignorance of the mysteries in the Qur’ân and the Divine Ma’ârifwhich have been inspirations for the great men of tasawwuf.4) “Scholars of tafsîr and tawhîd explained detailedly whichone, the earth or the sky, had been created earlier. But theyshould have known the fact that being earlier and later arehuman terms. It should not be forgotten, again, that such termshave been used so that the infinite descriptions becomprehended by the limited human mind. The disputationswhich Islamic thinkers set about on these terms of the Qur’ânare nothing but the tragedy of mixing Greek philosophy and thereligious controversies among Jews and Christians with the- 241 -