Documents of the Right Word

the fourteenth paragraph of the chapter about Waqf in the book
Fatâwâ-yi-Hindiyya: “For people who wish to do pious acts of
charity, it is better to construct buildings of public use, [such as
hospitals], than emancipating slaves. Publishing useful books
[teaching Islam, morals and science] is the best of all. To prepare
and publish books of fiqh is better than doing supererogatory
worships.”
43- Another insidious enemy who attacks Islam’s foundation
with sly methods and tries to mislead Muslim children is an
Egyptian named Muhammad Qutb. See how nonsensically he
writes in an article which he names ‘Line of Deviation’:
“The first chink in Islam’s basis showed itself in the Umayyad
policy in administrative and financial areas. For the ‘Melik-i-adûd’
established a hereditary system (of sovereignty) and began to
perpetrate a series of cruelties. Sultans’ and governors’ relatives
became sort of feudal chieftains.
“Then came the Abbasid era. Buildings of caliphate and
governorship became drinking and fornication dens instead of
offices for civil services. They were arranging musical revels with
belly dancers and carrying their injustice and egoism to their lower
extremeties.”
The book Tuhfa states as follows in its answer to the
seventieth lie fabricated by people without Madh-hab: “If a
person’s caliphate is declared clearly through Nass, that is, by
âyats and hadîths, this kind of caliphate is called Khilâfat-i-
Râshida. It is for this reason that the four great Khalîfas are called
Khulafâ-i-râshidîn. If a person’s caliphate is inferred through
reasoning or through implication of Nass, his caliphate is termed
Khilâfat-i-’âdila. If a person whose caliphate is neither declared
clearly nor implied seizes power by using force, his caliphate is
called Khilâfat-i-Jâira, and this kind of Khalîfa is called Melik-iadûd.”
A hadîth-i-sherîf, which exists in the five hundred and twentyeighth
page of the book Izâlat-ul-hafâ, by Shâh Waliyyullah
Dahlawî, states, “We began this work with prophethood and with
Allah’s compassion. After now there will be caliphate and
(Allah’s) compassion. Then will come the (time of) Melik-i-adûd.
Then there will be torments, cruelties and mischiefs among my
Ummat. Wearing silk clothes, drinking alcohol and fornication will
be made halâl and (this state) will be supported by many people.
Things will go on like this till the end of the world.” This hadîth-isherîf
states clearly that hadrat Mu’âwiya will seize power by force
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