Answer to an Enemy of Islam

ijtihâd by mujtahids originated from the same source.
Some were deduced from the Book, while others from the
Sunna. Therefore, there are different views on some
matters.”
Having involved himself in a great matter which he could never
cope with, the religion reformer now gets confused. The poor man,
who can never tolerate Muslims’ following the a’immat almadhâhib
by obeying the above-quoted hadîth sherîf and the âyat
quoted several times before, being unable to find any reason based
on knowledge and intellect for blaming taqlîd, says that taqlîd
obstructs knowledge and intellect. We answered this claim of his in
the previous article. Is he a Muslim or an enemy of Islam who says
that obeying the commands in the âyat and the hadîth causes such
harms? We leave the answer to the understanding and reason of
our dear readers. Hadrat ’Abd al-Wahhâb ash-Sha’rânî wrote in
his work al-Mîzân al-kubrâ:
“O my Muslim brother! Meditate well! If Rasûlullah (sall-
Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam) had not explained what had been
revealed briefly and symbolically in the Qur’ân al-kerîm, the
Qur’ân al-kerîm would have remained concealed. If our a’immat
al-madhâhib (rahmatullâhi ’alaihim ajma’în), who were
Rasûlullah’s (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam) inheritors, had not
explained the brief hadîths, the Prophet’s Sunna would have
remained concealed. Therefore, the scholars of each century, by
following Rasûlullah (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam), explained all
the brief hadîths. Allâhu ta’âlâ declares in the 44th âyat of the
Sûrat an-Nahl, “You (the Prophet) shall explain (bayân) to
mankind what I send down for them.” ‘Bayân’ means ‘to express
the âyats of Allâhu ta’âlâ in other terms, in a different way.’ If the
scholars among the Umma had been able to explain âyats and to
interpret brief âyats and to infer rules from the Qur’ân al-kerîm,
Allâhu ta’âlâ would have said to His Prophet, ‘Tell them what is
sent to you through the Angel,’ and He would not have
commanded him to explain. Shaikh al-Islâm Zakariyyâ
(rahmatullâhi ’alaih) said, ‘If Rasûlullah (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa
sallam) had not interpreted what had been declared briefly in the
Qur’ân al-kerîm and if the a’immat al-madhâhib had not
explained what had been communicated symbolically, none of us
could have understood them. For example, if the Shâri’ (sall-
Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam) had not explained how to perform a
ritual ablution in his hadîths, we would not have been able to
deduce from the Qur’ân al-kerîm how to perform it. Similarly, the
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