Islams Reformers

in Islam which in turn means to make matters worse. A quotation
from the exalted Islamic scholar Imâm al-Ghazâlî would go with
the situation: “An unschooled attempt to help Islam would, let
alone help, damage Islam.”
Mawdûdî says on the thirty-third page of his book:
“One of the two reasons why the institution of caliphate
weakened was because Hadrat ’Uthmân was devoid of the
charismatic leadership possessed by his predecessors.”
With these words, he tries to blemish ’Uthmân’s (radiy-Allâhu
’anh) governance. Sayyid Qutb, an Egyptain writer, also attacks
Hadrad ’Uthmân (radiy-Allâhu anh) with the same presumptions
in his book Al-’adâlat al-ijtimâ’iyyatu fi ’l-islâm. Speaking ill of
Hadrat ’Uthmân Dhi ’n-nûrain (radiy-Allâhu ’anh), who was
recommended by Hadrat ’Umar (radiy-Allâhu ’anh) and elected
by the Prophet’s (’alaihi ’s-salâm) companions unanimously and
whose superiority had been declared in many hadîths is a
symptom of being too ignorant to understand that it is a grave sin
to speak ill of him or a symptom of attempting to demolish Islam
insidiously from behind the screen. Each of the Sahâbat al-kirâm
was a hero honoured by being praised in the hadîths, “The
highest people are those who live in my time,” and “My
companions are like the stars in the sky. If you follow any one of
them, you will find the right path,” and in the âyat, “They are
very strong against disbelievers.” To misrepresent ’Uthmân
(radiy-Allâhu ’anh) as the cause of the weakening of the
institution of caliphate can be done only by those who cannot
realize their honours. The history is in the open. The extent of
lands conquered in the time of Hadrat ’Uthmân (radiy-Allâhu
’anh) was much greater than the former. Muslim lands extended
from Philippines to Tunisia. The capacity of this book would not
suffice to tell about the improvements he made in administrative,
military and social fields. His attempts and achievements in
administrative, military and economic fields are told in detail in
the fifth chapter of the Turkish Hak Sözün Vesîkalar›. [1]
Those
who misrepresent Hadrat ’Uthmân’s (radî-Allâhu ’anh)
martyrdom as a defect for him reveal what they think about the
prophets whom the Children of Isrâ’il had martyred and about
the hadîth, “No prophet suffered as much torture as I have.”
Evidently, the reason why they do not speak ill of Hadrat ’Umar’s
[1] Documents of the Right Word. Please see the book list at the end of
this book.
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