Islam's Reformers .pdf

the one hand, and the Wahhâbîs and Shiite men of religion, onthe other, are misinforming those Christians who have newlyconverted to Islam, attracting them into their heretical sects, andthereby preventing them from attaining true Islam. Indeed, theBritish policy causes severe harm to humanity and to Islam.Nowadays, everybody who knows a little Arabic and who iscapable of expressing himself in writing has been attempting towrite religious books. By disguising as a religious man andgetting a diploma, each of them has been writing differentthings. All of them have been demolishing Islam and defiling thebelief of Muslims. Pure-hearted young people are at a loss as towhat book to read and whom to believe.Those who want to learn Islam, which Allâhu ta’âlâ likes, andto attain repose and happiness in both worlds by holding fast toRasûlullâh’s (’alaihi ’s-salâm) religion should read ’ilm al-hâlbooks, which are the selections from the books that the greatmen of tasawwuf wrote after the Ahl as-Sunna scholars. Onlythe Ahl as-Sunna scholars have comprehended the realmeaning of the Qur’ân and communicated it by writingthousands of books. They are the apples of the eyes of Islamand are praised in the Qur’ân and the Hadîth. One should notread the misguiding and concocted articles of upstart men ofreligion, of false shaikhs or of insidious enemies of Islam, or fallfor their words and lectures. One should look for the correctbooks prepared by real Muslims, who adapt themselves toIslam and who make their children live compatibly with Islam,i.e., who perform every kind of ’ibâdât and abstain from theharâm.65 - Hadrat al-Imâm ar-Rabbânî al-Mujaddîd al-alf ath-thânîAhmad al-Farûqî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’aleyh’ [d. 1034 (A.D.1624), in Serhend city, India] wrote as follows in the twenty-thirdletter of the third volume:“Allâhu ta’âlâ sent prophets as a compassion and favour toall creatures. Allâhu ta’âlâ made known His existence andAttributes to us, His weak-minded, short-sighted creatures,through these great prophets of His. Through the agency ofthem, He declared the things He liked and what He disliked.Through their mediation, He separated the things that would beuseful to men in this world and the next from the harmful ones.If these honourable prophets had not been sent, the humanmind could not have realized that Allâhu te’âlâ exists and could- 306 -