Islam's Reformers .pdf

with pure îmân and heart are called ‘mudarris’ (professor),‘mu’allim’ (trainer) or ‘murshid’ (guide). ‘Murshid’ does not mean‘one who walks on the water surface, flies in the air, knowswhere a lost thing is and cures sick people by praying andblowing’, but it means ‘the scholar of Ahl as-Sunna who knows,practises and teaches to others the Sharî’a, that is, the ’ibâdâtperformed with the heart, soul and body’. To carry out the orderin sûrat al-Mâ’ida, every Muslim should look for such a murshidor for his books and should learn all fard and nâfila ’ibâdât fromhim.’“We should not fall for the wrong words of the ignorant menof religion, who do not know Islam, or for the fallacies of theevil-minded people, who have not read the books of the Ahl as-Sunna scholars, or for the deceitful, false articles of those whofollow the unsound minds of the deviated people who havegone astray and who lead everybody astray. Scholars of Islamhave derived their konwledge from the Qur’ân and the Hadîth.As for those deviated people, they write and speak followingtheir own short sight. Shame on these reformers and those whofall for their words and books supposing them to be scholars!They are the thieves of faith and belief. They change the halâland the harâm. They spoil Islam.” [1]In the section on the things that invalidate salât, Ibn ’Âbidînwrote: “It is makrûh tahrîmî to accept the blameworthy,loathsome ones of the bid’as in customs, such as eating,drinking, dressing, from the disbelievers, and to accept and touse, in order to resemble them, the ones that are not bad. It isnot makrûh to do and to use the ones that are not bad orharmful without trying to be like them. Rasûlullah (sall-Allâhu’alaihi wa sallam) had his shoemakers make a pair of shoes,which priests wore, and he wore them.”Is it bid’a or not to recite the sûrat al-Fâtiha after salât andpraying? Hadrat Hâdimî writes its answer detailedly on thehundred and thirty-seventh page of the book Berîqa. Let’sexplain briefly: there have been those who considered it bid’aand those who said the opposite. According to many of them, itis better to recite the Fâtiha at places where it was declared torecite prayers. Moreover, it has been declared in a hadîth torecite prayers after salât. ‘Bid’a’ means ‘the ’ibâda that is[1] An-Nablûsî, al-Hadîqa.- 288 -