Islams Reformers

is written in the book Ad-durar by Adib Is’hâq of Egypt that Jamâl
ad-dîn was the chief of the freemasonic lodge in Egypt. He imbued
Egyptians with revolutionary ideas. In order to increase his fame,
he pretended to side with those who prepared the event of “A’râbî
Pasha” against the British. He made friends with Muhammad
’Abduh, the muftî of Egypt. He imbued him with his reformatory
thoughts. Muhammad ’Abduh wrote: “Before I saw Jamâl ad-dîn
my eyes had been blind, my ears deaf and my tongue dumb.” In
London and in Paris, Jamâl ad-dîn wrote many harmful articles on
reform in the religion. In 1886 he came to Iran. He did not keep
quiet there, either. Fastened with chains he was left inside the
Ottoman borders by five hundred cavalrymen. He went to
Baghdad and London. He wrote articles against Iran. Thence he
came to Istanbul, where, co-operating with the Bahâ’îs [1]
he
exploited the religion as a means for politics. He tried to stir up an
insurrection in Iran. A year later, his chin became cancerous and
he died in 1314 A.H. (1897). He was buried in the Cemetery of
Shaikhs near the Maçka Barracks in Istanbul. An American had a
tomb built for him. After the Second World War, his bones were
taken to Afghanistan. Freemasons write differently about his
hostility against Islam, his revolutionary and mischievous
adventures. They are not ashamed of saying “ignorant,
reactionary” about the Shaikh al-Islâms and Muslim scholars for
the sheer purpose of proving that he was great.
Great Muslim scholar Hadrat Sayyid Abdulhakîm Arwâsî (d.
in 1362/1943) said, “It was Ibn Taimiyya who invented the heresy
of reform in the religion first. Later on, this heresy was led to
unbelief by the ignorant and by the enemies of Islam.” Ibn
Taimiyya was born in Harrân in 661/1263 and caught a disease
that caused his death in prison in a fortress in Damascus in
728/1328. He did not like the Ahl as-Sunna scholars. He denied
tasawwuf entirely. He called Islam’s beloved scholars such as
Muhyiddîn ibn al-’Arabî and Sadr ad-dîn al-Qonawî
“disbelievers”. However, he was not too ignorant to know that he
who called a Muslim “disbeliver” would himself become a
disbeliever. It is a shame he tried to adapt Islam to his own
opinion and narrow mind and, denying the facts which he could
not comprehend, he went astray. ’Abd al-Wahhâb ash-Sha’rânî
(rahmatullâhi ’alaih), one of the leading ’ulamâ’ of Islam and a
specialist in ’ilm at-tasawwuf, exposed Ibn Taimiyya’s this
[1] A heretical group explained in the thirty-sixth chapter of the second
fascicle of Endless Bliss.
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