Documents of the Right Word

Turks and establish an independent state. Wahhabite books call
true Muslims ‘polytheists’. They stigmatize us Sunnite Muslims as
disbelievers. The spy named Lawrence is dead now. He is in Hell.
They are employing their native spies for his place now.
Distributing thousands of golds, they are publishing magazines
and books praising them in every country. In these books of
theirs, they are censuring scholars of Ahl as-sunna ‘rahmatullâhi
ta’âlâ alaihim ajma’în’. However, Islamic scholars have
unanimously affirmed the high grade of those scholars, thus
settling this matter and leaving not even a smallest particular for
the later generations to discuss. To attempt to rake up past events
that have already been discussed, agreed on and settled from both
historical and religious points of view, is an indication of
destructiveness rather than that of service. It is a sign of
malevolence.
All the Umayyad, Abbasid and Ottoman Khalîfas were
believing, good-charactered, just and blessed people. Yes, a very
few of them succumbed to their nafs and fell for the temptations
of the devil. Yet these people did not harm Islam. Their harm was
to their own nafs. The worst of them abandoned the Sunnî way
and became a Mu’tazilî. And then this was caused by aberrant
men of religion. The fiends who misled them were degenerated
members of mankind, rather than descendants of the accursed
devil. Imâm-i-Rabbânî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ aleyh’ states in his
book Mektûbât that “Muslims’ and statesmen’s deviation from
the right way has always been caused by malicious men of
religion.” A worse act of immorality is to try to stigmatize Islamic
Khalîfas as immoral and irreligious people by publicizing their
private lawful harem lives in books and newspaper columns. It is
something that will shock and perturb honest people. A person
may have read the lies and calumniations in European histories or
books written by priests and freemasons and believed them. We
recommend to them that they also read at least a few Islamic
histories and books written by scholars of Ahl as-sunna. Thus the
truth will be known. In fact, an article which is a collection of
sheer judgements without any documentary events or evidences
must have been written by a person with no background in Islam’s
teachings. They write that people in the times of Umayyads,
Abbasids and Ottomans observed Islam. This shows that
statesmen in those times were believing and just people. For our
master, the Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’, stated,
“People’s religion is like their president’s religion.” Throughout
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