Answer to an Enemy of Islam

eligious authority, but an enemy of Islam disguised as a man of
religious authority, that is, a zindîq.
Because the scholars of fiqh did not state the rules of Islam out
of their own opinions or intellects but conveyed the knowledge
coming from as-Sahâbât al-kirâm, the reformer abases himself so
far as to stigmatize the ’ulamâ’ as ignoramuses. But the
ignoramuses are these very religion reformers who do not know
this knowledge or the cases to which it is to be applied and who
lie. They are vulgarly ignorant. Because of their ignorance, which
is peculiar to a person who is unaware of his ignorance, they think
they know something, feeling no shame at spreading their
mendacious and corrupt words under the name of knowledge.
The hadîth ash-sherîf, “Al-hayâ’u min al’îmân,” (Modesty
originates from îmân) which is written in the Sahîh of Muslim,
also shows the fact that the enemies of Islam do not have a sense
of shame. The scholars of fiqh have written the matters on which
there was ijmâ’a as well as the discordant ones. Those who know
the deep science of fiqh will distinguish them from one another.
The ignorant reformers think that the scholars of fiqh were like
themselves. The Arabic saying, “Al-kalâmu sifât al-mutakallim,”
(One’s words reveal who he is) points to the inner purpose of
these zindîqs.
The scholars of fiqh, according to him, have been saying that
there was ijmâ’ without knowing the matter. This exalted religion,
Islam, to him, has been a plaything throughout the centuries in the
hands of ignorant people, and these zindîqs will now restore Islam
on to its rails. He, too, says that the person who denies the
unanimity of the ’ulamâ’ becomes a disbeliever. If the ’ulamâ’ of
Islam did not know or find out ijmâ’, whence will he himself find
it? No need to be surprised by him: “Al-jâhilu jasûrun,” (An
ignoramus behaves daringly!) He always says what he fabricates.
What else would be easier for him, while it is a mere nothing for
him to write out hundreds of books full of lies and slanders like
this book of his? There is no longer any need to look for the putrid
asses prophesied in, “As Doomsday draws near, men of religious
post will be more rotten, more putrid than putrefied donkey
flesh,” the hadîth ash-sherîf of our master, the Prophet (’alaihi ’ssalâm),
whose each word was full of wisdom; they show
themselves. Their venomous, noisome smell has been spreading
from Egypt to all over the entire world. May Allâhu ta’âlâ protect
our young men of religious post from being infected with these
fatal disease germs! May He deign to protect us all against the
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