Documents of the Right Word

PART FOUR
LET US BE IN UNITY and LOVE ONE
ANOTHER
For thirteen hundred years enemies of Islam failed to stand
against Islam. All their attacks rebounded upon themselves. The
Islamic religion spread far and wide. At last they realized that
Muslims’ chests, full with îmân, were too firm for them to thrust a
dagger into. They began to think of how to hit Muslims from the
spiritual front, i.e. to corrupt their faith and morality, and
concocted plans to destroy Islam from the inside.
As Islam rapidly spread over Asia and Africa in the times of
hadrat ’Umar and hadrat ’Uthmân, a sly Jew of Yemen, named
Abdullah bin Saba’, pretended to be a Muslim and beguiled an
Egyptian group into martyring hadrat ’Uthmân. Thus a very
serious catastrophic fitna arose and millions of Muslims shed one
another’s blood. The factious sect which was thus founded in the
name of Saba’ came to be called the Hurûfî sect in the eighth
century (of the Hegira). Ringleaders of this sect wrote books
spoiling the Islamic beliefs and deranging the moral qualities
prescribed by Islam.
Later on, another miscreant group, whose major aim was to
destroy Islam’s Madh-habs, appeared sometime during the twelfth
century of the Hegira and spread in Arabia. [1] The British, who had
fought against Muslims in World War I, founded a new state in
Hidjâz after the war. They took the two holy Islamic cities, Mekka
and Medina, away from the Ottomans and gave these cities to this
new state. Thus another fitna corroding Islam from within began
to spread. Only those Muslims who hold fast to the books written
by scholars of Ahl as-Sunna have managed to survive this
disastrous flood of fitna.
It has been seen recently that some heretical books have been
published and serving the purpose of causing discordance in our
country. We therefore have considered it would be appropriate to
reveal the lies and slanders fabricated in these books, which have
been prepared for the purpose of effacing young people’s beliefs
and are offered to them like wolves in lambs’ hides or like
poisoned honey. Trusting ourselves to the divine kindness and
help of Allâhu ta’âlâ, we have taken very injurious samples from
[1] Please see the book Confessions of a British Spy.
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