Islam's Reformers .pdf

Muhammad Qutb and ’Abduh, who were the enemies of Islam,from inserting their dirty pens into Islam’s chastity. If theOttoman Turks had not protected Islam against the aggressionof ignorant people like these, Islam also, like Christianity, wouldhave been an altogether mixed-up, impure religion. It is,however, a lamentable fact that Islam has been injured andmade a plaything in the hands of the heretics in Mecca andEgypt. Today, true Islam, as Rasûlullâh (’alaihi ’s-salâm) left it,has remained in Turkish people with all its cleanliness andpurity. [1]63 - An Indian named Muhammad Hamidullah also spreads,under the name of Islamic knowledge, his thoughts incontradiction to what the Ahl as-Sunna scholars haveconveyed. The heretical writings of this man, who is assumed tobe an Islamic scholar because he has received professorship inIslamic knowledge in France, are translated into Turkish andoffered to the young generation in order to misguide Muslims.We were appalled to read the following lines on the thirty-fourthpage of the Turkish translation of his book The Prophet ofIslam:“We see him [Muhammad ’alaihi ’s-salâm] again in Hubeshâ[Yemen] and in the country of the Abdulgaises [Eastern Arabia,Bahrain, Oman] as a merchant. It may even be thought that hewent to Ethiopia, perhaps by sea. All these journeys providedhim with the acquirement of the commercial and administrativetraditions and laws of Byzantium, Persia, Yemen and Ethiopia.In his age of maturity, this experienced man of forty attemptedto reform his nation.”On the contrary, Muslim historians say unanimously thatRasûlullah (’alaihi ’s-salâm) was suckled by his mother for threedays, then by Abû Lahab’s jâriya named Suwaiba for 40 or 120days and then by Halîma Khâtûn until he was five years old. At[1]For those who want to learn in detail the real purposes of IbnTaimiyya, the leader of the anti-madhhabite, and of those who areexcessive in anti-madhhabism, Indian scholar Muhammad Hamd-Allah ad-Dajwi’s Arabic work al-Basâ’ir li-munkiri ’t-tawassuli biahlal maqâbir and Muhammad Hasan Jan al-Fârûqi al-Mujaddidias-Sirhindi’s Persian work al-Usûl al-arba’a fî tardîd al-Wahhâbiyya (both were first printed in India and later reproducedin Istanbul, 1395/1975) are recommendable.- 295 -