Answer to an Enemy of Islam

Shari’iyya, that is, the sources from which Islamic rules were
derived, are four: the Book, the Sunna, qiyâs al-fuqahâ’ and ijmâ’
al-Umma. The Book is the Qur’ân al-kerîm. The Sunna is he
Hadîth ash-sherîf. These two are also called “Nass.” Qiyâs alfuqahâ’
is composed of the ijtihâds of the scholars who were
mujtahids. One who says that ijmâ’ is not a dalîl (documentary
evidence) does not become a disbeliever. He becomes a man of
bid’a, for he says it out of explaining away (ta’wîl) the dubious
nasses. The Khârijites and other lâ-madhhabî people are in this
group. Their words opposing ijmâ’ do not result in disbelief.
However, it causes disbelief for those ignorant people who are
unaware of ta’wîl to express their ideas and thoughts
unconformable to ijmâ’.
A preacher does not talk out of imagination or supposition. He
does not base his decision on possibilities. He knows that it is not
permissible to talk without sufficient knowledge or to decide
through supposition. He does not deny what he sees, but he studies
and experiments, for, the Qur’ân al-kerîm and the Hadîth ashsherîf
order Muslims to think, to study and to experiment, and
commend those who do so. The book ’Aqâ’id an-Nasafî, which he
should have read in a madrasa and which the religion reformer
should not even have heard of, writes about the means for
acquiring knowledge on its very first page.
13– He represents the preacher as a man who does not believe
in geography or newspapers and who does not accept what
disbelievers report. See the slander against the preacher! Muslims
do believe in scientific knowledge, but they do not get deceived
by the lies which non-Muslims say under the mask of science.
Trying to deceive Muslims and blemish Islamic religion, those
kâfirs, who are not aware of science, and pretending as scientists,
saying lies in the form of scientific knowledge are called (Science
bigots), or (Religion reformers) or (Zindîqs). These are
separatists who slander both Islam and the science. If Muslims
had not believed in geography, would they have studied this
branch of knowledge? The names and authors of the geography
books that make known Muslims’ studies and discoveries in this
field are written in the books Kashf az-zunûn and Mawdû’ât alulûm
and also in Brockelmann’s German Geschichte der
Arabischen Literatur. Let us ask the religion reformer: who
measured first the length of one meridian on the Sinjar Desert?
Weren’t they the Muslims of Ahl as-Sunna who belonged to one
of the four madhhabs? Won’t a Muslim who follows their path
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