Islam's Reformers .pdf

hungry eats something. He who becomes ill runs to a doctorand takes medicine. He who wants to learn his religion readsbooks written by scholars of Ahl as-sunna. Using a medicineprescribed by an uneducated person may bring about deathinstead of restoring health. By the same token, if a person readsa heretical and fallacious book written by a non-Sunnite,miscreant and lâ-madhhabî person, his îmân will becomeblurred. Allâhu ta’âlâ has preordained that saying prayersshould be a means for attaining one’s worldly needs as well asone’s wishes pertaining to the Hereafter. Yet the acceptability ofa prayer requires one’s being a Sunnite and devoted Muslim,that is, endeavouring to attain Allâhu ta’âlâ’s love. And this, inits turn, depends on not earning one’s living by working on away that is harâm or by infringing others’ rights, and on invokingAllâhu ta’âlâ alone. A person who cannot fulfil these conditionsasks a person who fulfils them, i.e. a Walî, to invoke a blessingon him. The Awliyâ will hear after death, too. They will ask ablessing on those people who visit their graves and beg them.Our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ stated, “Whenyou get confused in your problems, ask people in graves tohelp you!” Shaikh-ul-islâm Ahmed ibni Kemâl explains thishadîth-i-sherîf in his book Hadîs-i erba’în tercemesi. It is alsoexplained in detail in the books Al-tawassul-u-bi-n-Nabî wa bis-Sâlihîn(in Arabic), Radd-i-Wahhâbî (in Persian), andKıyâmet ve Âhiret (in Turkish). Abdullah-i-Dahlawî’s eighth andtwenty-eighth and thirty-fifth letters are powerful documents inthis respect. He writes the following distich in his thirty-thirdletter:Allah has given the Awliyâ so much puissance:Be it a fired bullet, they’ll send back a nuisance.Wahhâbîs, who have been misled by British spies, deny thisfact. Books published by Hakîkat Kitâbevi refute Wahhâbîs.]It was stated in a hadîth-i-sherîf, “Holders of bid’at willbecome dogs for the people of Hell.” [In other words, theywill be made into dogs and flung into Hell]. It was stated inanother hadîth-i-sherîf, “The devil will tempt holders of bid’atto do acts of worship. As they worhip they will weep (fromfear of Allah).” In another hadîth-i-sherîf: “Allâhu ta’âlâ will notaccept the namâz, the fast, the alms, the hajj or ’umra, thejihâd or any other sort of fard or supererogatory worshipperformed by holders of bid’at. They go out of Islam like a- 318 -