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neglect a sunna. When it is unknown if a belief, a deed or aword is a sunna or bid’a, it is necessary not to perform it, for it isnecessary not to do the bid’a, and it is not obligatory to performthe sunna. If something not obligatory is omitted, it will not beperformed afterwards. Therefore, the omitted sunnas of salâtwill not be performed afterwards. It is more blessed than all theworship of human beings and genies not to commit the mostvenial of the acts which Allâhu ta’âlâ has prohibited. For thisreason, a wâjib also can be omitted where there is difficulty. Butit has been said by scholars that harâm cannot be committed.For example, one cannot clean, in the presence of others, theparts of his body that have to be covered.“Unanimity of the mujtahids who lived in the same century iscalled ijmâ’. Ijmâ’ has to be based on a proof, a document. Thisproof is an âyat or a hadîth even if only one person hasreported it, or it is a qiyâs based upon them. Qiyâs is theexplanation of something that has been declared indistinctly inthe âyat and in the Hadîth. Hadrat al-Imâm al-a’zam Abû Hanîfaperformed ijtihâd by way of qiyâs.“A person may become an ’ârif or a Walî without reading anybooks. He might interpret âyats but cannot be a guide. Onecannot attach his heart to him. A perfect guide has to havereached the grade of ijtihâd in knowledge and the grade ofWilâyat khâssa al-Muhammadiyya in ma’rifa. A perfect guide’severy behaviour, every manner, every word is compatible withIslam. This means to say that he follows Rasûlullah (’alaihi ’ssalâm)in every respect. For this reason, Allâhu ta’âlâ loves him.Muslims, since they love Allâhu ta’âlâ, love also the personwhom Allâhu ta’âlâ loves. Loving the perfect guide arises fromloving Allâhu ta’âlâ and Rasûlullah (’alaihi ’s-salâm). This love iscalled al-hubbu fi’llâh. It has been declared in a hadîth that themost valuable worship is al-hubbu fi’llâh. To perform thecommands of a perfect guide means to obey Islam, for a perfectguide’s every word and every deed communicates Islam. Thereal person who presents knowledge on the earth is the perfectguide. Hence it can be understood that the words of theenemies of religion, ‘Instead of Allâhu ta’âlâ, they love a humanbeing. Abandoning Islam, they worship a human being,’ aboutMuslims, are ignorant and base slanders.“Following as-Sahâbat al-kirâm is wajib. It is not permissibleto make qiyâs on something which they already explained. Yet,- 286 -