Miftah-ul-Janna (Booklet for way to Paradise)

y Islamic scholars. His attempt is even worse than that. Quoting
the Fiqh scholars’ written statements on ghusl, he dubs them into
his personal opinions. For instance, he says, “As is stated in Bahr,
it is not obligatory to make water touch places where it is difficult
to make it reach.” On the other hand, the statement written in the
book entitled Bahr reads: “... parts of the body where it is difficult
to make water reach.” Thereby he likens something which one
does indispensably to something which one experiences
indispensably. Nor is he righteous in his using the statement, “If it
would harm a woman to wash her head, then she does not wash
her head,” which is written in Durr-ul-mukhtâr, as a proof to show
that ghusl made by a person with a filled tooth will be jâiz
(permissible, acceptable). The head’s being harmed by contact
with water is something on account of a physical illness. The
crowning or filling of a tooth is one’s own choice. It is for this
reason that the question of whether ghusl made by people with
food remains in their tooth sockets will be jâiz is separately dealt
with in the book entitled Durr-ul-mukhtâr.
The tricks and misdeeds mentioned so far would fall short of
describing the wickedness of Ismâ’îl Hakki of Izmir. He was, for
instance, unprincipled enough to attempt to misemploy Islamic
scholars as false witnesses for himself by saying, “It is not a
requirement (of ghusl) to make water reach below gold and silver
crownings and fillings or to wash places under them. Scholars of
Fiqh unanimously state that there is a darûrat in the concerned
teeth and that it is not obligatory to make water reach parts (of the
body) with a darûrat.” None of the scholars of Fiqh in the Hanafî
Madhhab said that it is a darûrat to have your teeth crowned or
filled. In fact, tooth crowning or filling does not date as far back as
the times wherein scholars of Fiqh lived. In the sixty-fourth page
of the commentary to the book entitled Siyar-i-kebîr, which he
adduces as a proof, Imâm Muhammad Sheybânî ‘rahima-hullâhu
ta’âlâ’ is quoted to have said that it would be jâiz (permisible) for
a person to replace his fallen tooth with a gold tooth or to fasten
his teeth with a gold wire. The book does not make any mention
of tooth crowning. It is a trumped-up addendum forged by Ismâ’îl
Hakki of Izmir. Masonic men of religion, people without a certain
Madhhab and heretics, who appeared later, had recourse to all
sorts of trickery to deceive Muslims and to preach sedition among
them. They wrote wrong and subversive articles.
Imâm Muhammad Sheybânî) ‘rahima-hullâhu ta’âlâ’ stated
that a tottering tooth could be tied with a gold, as well as a silver,
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