Islams Reformers

A mujtahid belonging to the fourth group can understand the
teachings of his madhhab and conveys them to others.
“Ordinary Muslims who are not able to perform ijtihâd and do
not study Islamic sciences are permitted to follow a madhhab.
However, a scholar who has reached the capacity to perform
ijtihâd is not allowed to follow a madhhab.” [1]
Shâh Walî-Allah’s writings above clearly show the fact that
Mawdûdî is a heretic who has not realized the greatness of the Ahl
as-Sunna scholars, all of whom were praised in the hadîth and who
followed the same path and spread and strengthened Rasûlullah’s
(sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam) path.
Mawdûdî writes altogether nonsense on the eighty-third page;
see what he writes in a delirium:
“Because of the difference of opinions with regard to fiqh, the
Hanafî and the Shâfi’î madhhabs have judged each other
resentfully to defend its own opinion and have become
excessively dangerous to each other. Every madhhab overflows
with details, and facts get lost in an abundance of
interpretations.”
These delirious words are excessively slanderous against the
madhhab leaders. In no fiqh book is there a single word written
with resent or jealousy against any of the four madhhabs. On the
countrary, each madhhab considers it permissible to follow other
madhhabs when in difficulty. [2] Such a corrupt, absurd and blatant
lie as this can be written only by a heretic attacking Islam from
behind the scene. Poor Mawdûdî has tried to dive into kalâm and
fiqh, which are the important subjects of Islam, but, being
inexperienced, he has been drowned.
On the ninetieth page, he praises Shâh Walî-Allah and says
that he selects the following lines from his book Al-tafhîmât:
“In the contemporary age, reality, which is compatible with the
spirit of Divine Knowledge, combines the Hanafî and the Shâfi’î
madhhabs. The Qur’ân commentaries should be reviewed and the
[1] Shâh Walî-Allah ad-Dahlawî, Al-intibâh, part III. The author of
It’hâf, an annotation to Al-intibâh, wrote: “The person who said that
a Muslim should give up following a madhhab and adapt himself
directly to âyats and hadîths was Shawkânî, not Shâh Walî Allah ad-
Dahlawî,” and added that ash-Shawkânî’s words were better and
superior, thus confessing the fact that he was against the madhhabs.
[2] For details, see ’Abd al-Ghanî an-Nablusî’s Khulâsat at-tahqîq and
our book The Sunni Path, p. 32.
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