Islams Reformers

of fact, these wishes of his have been quoted and refuted in the
preceding paragraphs.
“Islam is a whole. Its separated parts should be united, and the
differences should be removed.” (Page 35)
Religious knowledge in Islam is divided into two sections:
1) Facts that are to be believed through heart.
2) Things that are to be done with the heart or the body.
The knowledge to be believed through heart is certainly a
whole and was taught by Rasûlullah (’alaihi ’s-salâm) and
conveyed by as-Sahâbat al-kirâm. Learning this knowledge from
them, the Ahl as-Sunna scholars wrote this knowledge in their
books. All Muslims have to read these books and unite in the same
one îmân. Muslims should unite, and there should not be
disagreement or faction. For achieving this, all Muslims should
unite in the belief of Ahl as-Sunna, which is the only right path,
and they should not deviate into the heretical groups prophesied
by our Prophet (’alaihi ’s-salâm). There cannot be another way for
unity. It was necessary also for Sayyid Qutb to learn this
knowledge of îmân and not to spread the absurd heresies born
from his head and from the head of his notorious masonic master,
Muhammad ’Abduh, under the name of religious knowledge and
not to cause faction. But, with his above-quoted writing, Sayyid
Qutb attacked the four true madhhabs. He wished the madhhabs
to be abolished and a false religion in the name of Islam to be
established. Also, all the anti-madhhabite people such as Jamâl addîn
al-Afghânî, ’Abduh and Mawdûdî and the zindîqs such as
Qâdiânî (Ahmadî) and Bahâ’î were on the same path. As our
Prophet (’alaihi ’s-salâm) declared, the four madhhabs into which
Ahl as-Sunna parted are Allâhu ta’âlâ’s compassion, and as he
commanded, the mujtahids had to perform ijtihâd. But heretics
have wished the madhhabs to be abolished and a new religion, a
collection of the laws of Christians, Jews and communists, to be
invented. In order to deceive Mulims, they call this new religion
“Islam” for the time being.
Allâhu ta’âlâ has not revealed openly and definitely all the
teachings pertaining to ’Ibâdât, marriage, trade and human rights.
He willed those teachings which were not detailed or clear to be
explained by the Prophet Muhammad (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa
sallam). And His Prophet explained them, but not completely,
leaving those teachings he did not clarifiy to be explained and
applied to daily events by the ’ulamâ’ who were mujtahids. While
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