Islams Reformers

When a vessel leaks, only its contents come out. He who goes to
the rose-garden smells like a rose, but the bitter apple which grows
in the rubbish-heap certainly gives off an acrid smell. Our master
Rasûlullah (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam) said “Do not smell
flowers grown in a rubbishheap!” To attain happiness in this world
and the next, one should read Ahl as-Sunna scholars’ books. These
scholars wrote in them every kind of knowledge which individuals,
families and societies need. A learned person will look for and find
this knowledge. Those who are ignorant and heretics cannot find it
and think that it does not exist. It is stated in the Hadîth that those
who depart from the Ahl as-Sunna will go to Hell. May Allâhu
ta’âlâ protect the youngsters from the harms and books of the false
men of religion! Âmîn.
57 - Another book written by Sayyid Qutb, namely Al-adâlatu
’l-ijtimâ’iyyatu fi ’l-Islâm (Social Justice in Islam), was translated
from Arabic into Turkish and was pushed before the younger
generation. In this book, Sayyid Qutb, whom the translators extol
to the skies, stripped his mask off his face completely and
exhibited clearly that he was an anti-madhhabite heretic. The
following passages from this book show that he understood
nothing from the writings of Islamic scholars:
“Who could assure us that an order which Islam brought in a
century is applicable in all the following centuries despite so many
conditions that have changed in contradistinction to that century?”
(Page 27)
He wanted Islam’s basis to change in every century. He
supposed that we ignorant people could change Islam as we
wished. He could not understand the fact that we, who are not
mujtahids but muqallids, could not lay our hands upon or speak ill
of Islamic knowledge. Islamic knowledge has two divisions:
religious knowledge and scientific knowledge. Religious
knowledge which is stated openly in the Qur’ân and the Hadîth
cannot be changed by the great scholars who are mujtahids, either.
Besides, there is no great scholar who is in the grade of ijtihâd
today. It is not permissible to modify even those acts of worship
pertaining to buying and selling, nikâh [1]
and punishments in
contempt of the conditions stipulated by Islam. Sayyid Qutb’s
attempts to change Islam was intended to bring French and
socialistic laws in place of Allâhu ta’âlâ’s commands. As a matter
[1] Marriage contract as dictated by Islam. Please see Endless Bliss, V, 12
for detail.
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