Advice for the Muslim

knowledge just as he is ignorant in the sciences of tafsîr and hadîth.
Because Arabic is his mother tongue, he gives corrupt meanings
with a swift pen to âyats and hadîths and to the quotations from
the ’ulamâ’ of Islam. He reads these statements, which are full of
subtle and high knowledge, much like the way he reads a
newspaper and thinks that they mean what he himself understands
with his empty head and short reasoning. Sayyid Qutb, who was
one of such lâ-madhhabî men ignorant of Islam and who was killed
upon the fitna he started in Egypt in 1386 A.H. (1966), made up a
tafsîr of the Qur’ân al-karîm according to his personal
understanding, entitled Fî dhilâl al-Qur’ân, and filled it with the
destructive, disunionist and wrong ideas of the modernist
Muhammad ’Abduh, who was the chief of the Cairo Masonic
Lodge. May Allâhu ta’âlâ protect the Muslim youth from reading
such corrupt, poisonous books and from being deceived! May He
protect us from falling into the traps of such upstart men of
religion! Âmîn.
Sayyid Dâwûd ibn Sulaimân (rahmat-Allâhi ’alaih) wrote:
“Some people say that it is unbelief and polytheism to make a
vow and slaughter animals for Allâhu ta’âlâ, to give their meat to
the poor and to send the resultant thawâb as gifts to prophets
(’alaihimu ’s-salawatu wa ’t-taslîmât) and awliyâ’ (rahimahum-
Allâhu ta’âlâ). It is necessary to answer them immediately. They
are the lâ-madhhabî people. They follow neither the imâms of
madhhabs nor any of the ’ulamâ’ of Islam. They make statements
out of their own short sight and deficient logic. Here, we shall first
refute them and then present what the ’ulamâ’ of Islam have
written.
“Allâhu ta’âlâ declares, ‘Allâhu ta’âlâ knows the alms you give
to the poor and the nadhrs you vow,’ in the 272nd âyat al-karîma
of Sûrat al-Baqara and, ‘They should perform their nadhrs!’ in the
29th âyat al-karîma of Surat al-Hajj. He praises those who vow
nadhr by declaring, ‘They perform what they have vowed,’ in the
seventh âyat al-karîma of Sûrat ad-Dahr. In these âyats, Allâhu
ta’âlâ means that He knows those who vow nadhr and praises
them. He declares that nadhr is the livelihood (nafaqa) for the
poor. It was asked of Rasûlullâh (sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa
sallam): ‘If a man or a woman vows to cut a camel somewhere
outside Mecca, will it be like the camels that were slaughtered in
front of the idols in the time of Jâhiliyya?’ He said, ‘No, it will not
be so! He or she should perform that nadhr! Allâhu ta’âlâ is
present at and sees every place. He knows what intention
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