Advice for the Muslim

news that they would be martyred. The hadîth ash-sharîf related
by at-Tabarânî and quoted in the book Kunûz ad-daqâ’iq
declares, “Husain will be killed in the year sixty.” Similarly, he
foretold that Hadrat ’Uthmân, Hadrat ’Alî and many other
Sahâbîs (radî-Allâhu ’anhum) would be martyred. He ordered
them to be patient. It was good news for as-Sahâbat al-kirâm to
hear that they would be martyred. They used to pray for getting
martyred, but not for the opposite. It is an ignorant absurdity to
say, “Why did not Rasûlullâh help his Companions?” It is like
asking, “Why did not Allâhu ta’âlâ help His Prophet in the Battle
of Uhud?” Such stupid statements as, “The Prophet would have
ordered as-Sahâba and relieved them of the troubles if he had
seen the conflict amongst them and heard their voices,” mean that
Allâhu ta’âlâ -may He forbid- did not see the tragedy and the
difficulty of the Muslims in the Battle of Uhud and did not hear
their prayers and istighâtha. We seek refuge in Allâhu ta’âlâ from
believing and being taken in by such absurd, vile statements in
that book. Great scholars of Islam do not try to change but
consent to qadâ’ and qadar when they hear about them. A hadîth
sharîf declares, “Ask the ones in graves for help when you are
confused about your affairs!” The lâ-madhhabî suppress the
hadîths which do not serve their interest, but, fortunately, the sun
cannot be stained with mud. They break into a fury of polemics by
saying, “It is a polytheistic and ass-like behaviour,” when they are
unable to disprove through sound documents. The one who does
not perform salât out of laziness or indulgence in worldly affairs
does not become a disbeliever, he who does not regard salât as a
duty, as a debt, and does not believe that it is fard becomes a
disbeliever.
He alludes to the ’ulamâ’ of Ahl as-Sunna by saying “the words
of this or that person.” However, the ’ulamâ’ of Ahl as-Sunna
wrote in their books what they understood from the Qur’ân alkarîm
and the Hadîth ash-sharîf and heard from as-Sahâbat alkirâm.
They did not rely upon their own opinions and ideas. Every
subject in their books is supported by a document from among
âyats, hadîths or words of as-Sahâbat al kirâm. Those who want to
obey the Qur’ân al-karîm and the Sunna and to follow the path of
as-Sahâbat al-kirâm have to read the books of Ahl as-Sunna.
One should be crazy or a blockhead or zindîq if he says that
those ’ulamâ’ of Ahl as-Sunna who were the best of the best
century praised in the hadîth ash-sharîf, which is also written on
the 492nd page of the book Fat’h al-majîd, could not comprehend
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