Islam's Reformers .pdf

to place ignorance and evils into the heads in the name ofknowledge, and to appoint ignorant, immoral people to beteachers. It is not knowledge and science but irreligious,ignorant teachers who harm the religious knowledge andbeautiful morals the youngsters have acquired from their motherhomes. Such an inefficient, irreligious teacher puts his ownirreligious, immoral ideas, lies and slanders secretly amid thescientific facts he teaches. The callow brains cannot distinguishthese lies from science and are deceived by believing them astruth. The pure children who fall into the traps of the enemies offaith and chastity are made to read the papers, magazines andnovels of the enemies of Islam, which in turn undermine theirmorals and îmân. This is the method whereby the youngergenerations are misled out of their faith in communist countries.It is understood from his writing that this reformer, too, hadreceived pure family education in his family home and later fellinto the talons of a vicious teacher hostile to Islam and waspoisoned and deceived. When he heard that the skies weremade of layers of ceilings, he himself might have supposed thatthey were storied like an apartment house. He imputes his ownmisunderstanding to Islam, thus attacks Islam through this way,too. However, Islam teaches that the space which they considerendless and which is full of millions of stars each of which is asun is only the first sky. This first sky, which they suppose to beendless, is only a drop of ocean beside the second sky. Andeach of the seven skies is as much bigger than the one itsurrounds. Scientists, let alone being opposed to this teachingof Islam, admire it. The poor reformer once took it that the earthwas on the horns of an ox the like of which he had seen in theshed. If he knew about the group of stars arranged in the shapeof an ox as defined in the entry ‘thawr’ in Qâmûs, he would notwrite ill of Allâhu ta’âlâ’s Messenger (’alaihi ’s-salâm) in such amanner now. It is estimated today that when this hadîth sherîfwas uttered this constellation was on the extension of a straightline that is imagined to be extending from the sun to the globe.Our Prophet (’alaihi ’s-salâm) held out his blessed sword andsaid, “My Allâhu ta’âlâ created my sustenance on the pointof my sword.” He meant that he fought against unbelievers tomake his living on what his share of the booty was. A villagerwho was listening to him asked, “Where is my world?” He said,“Your world is on the horns of the ox.” He meant, “You- 82 -