Islam's Reformers .pdf

slavery.” Yes, in order to praise the lâ-madhhabî, he speaks illof Islamic Khalîfas and Islamic scholars. The plans and thepolicy of Mawdûdî, Sayyid Qutb, Muhammad Qutb and ’Abduhare based on this fundamental. They all attack the earlyMuslims. They slander the Ahl as-Sunna scholars. On the otherhand, they misrepresent Ibn Taimiyya and the heretics likeJamâl ad-dîn al-Afghânî as saviors. What on earth could be sogood about the lâ-madhhabî people that they praise them? Thatthey attach no value to religious facts and scientific teachingsultimately becomes tangible in their immoralities well belowzero, a fact which Sa’ûd, -dethroned in 1384 [A.D. 1964] anddead in 1388 [A.D. 1968]-, showed to the entire world byleading a debauched, dishonest and indecent life and spendingmillions of pounds for his pleasures and dissipations in Europe.We wonder if the Egyptian writer does not blush when he seesand hears that the adulteries, fornications, immoralities in Cairoand Riad palaces are broadcast over the world through radios?They are not ashamed to take bribes, which is hundreds ofpounds, from each of the millions of hadjis coming from theMuslim world. They do not let their brothers-in-Islam performtheir duty of hajj unless they give them hundreds of pounds. Onthe other hand, it is written in the Ottoman book Radd almuhtârthat it is harâm to charge Christians who come to visitJerusalem. Ottomans did not ask any money even fromdisbelievers. But these people demand it from Muslims. If theydo not pay it, they prevent them from worshipping. Allâhu ta’âlâdeclares in the one hundred and fourteenth âyat of the sûrat al-Baqara, “No one can be more cruel than he who prohibitsto mention Mine Name in Mine mosques.” Hadrat ’Atâ isquoted in Tafsîr at-tibyân, “This âyat descended because, onthe Day of Hudaibiya, the disbelievers of Mecca would not letMuslims into the Masjid al-Harâm and perform hajj. In theQur’ân, unbelievers are called ‘the cruel’, too.” This âyat clearlydescribes those who do not let Muslims who cannot pay moneyinto the Masjid al-Harâm and those who praise these heretics.There were the Ottoman Muslims, whom they blame, and hereare the enemies of Ahl as-Sunna whom they praise!Furthermore, his word “The Ottomans stopped ijtihâd,” is alie. This word has become a loathsome gossip in the mouths ofthe enemies of Islam. The Ottomans did not close the way toijtihâd. They prevented the ignorant like Sayyid Qutb,- 294 -