Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

who are harâm for a man to marry through nikâh is Wasanniya,
that is, those women who worship idols. People who worship the
sun, the stars, pictures and statues, those who are of the
Mu’attala, of the Bâtiniyya, of the Ibâhiyya, and also the zindiqs,
i.e. those who consider the things causing disbelief as
fundamentals of îmân although they pretend to be devoted
Muslims; they are all idolaters (Fatâwâ-i Hindiyya). The
Bâtiniyya are also called Ismâ’iliyya, or Ibâhiyya. They have
recently adopted the name Wahhâbî, and they are irreligious
people who bear enmity and treason against Muslims under the
name of Islam.” Wasan is a statue made of stone. This excerpt
reveals the fact that a number of zindiqs have mixed with
Wahhâbîs and that these zindiqs are disbelievers.
In our country (Turkey), people with little religious
knowledge are poisoned by reading translations from the books
written by Ibni Taymiyyâ, Muhammad Abduh, Mawdûdî, Sayyed
Qutb, by ’Abdussalâm (a Nobel Prize winner), by Ahmad
Deedad, and Hamîdullah. According to those poor people, the
savants of the Ahl as-sunnat were unable to understand the
Qur’ân al-kerîm and hadîth-i-sherîfs. They look on the authors of
the falsely-sequinned and exaggerated writings in those books,
which provoke the nafs-i ammâra, as men of knowledge superior
to the savants of Ahl as-sunnat, and even to the Sahâba. People
who inflicted this deep wound on Islam are particularly Ibni
Hazm, Ibni Qayyim-i Jawziyya and philosopher Ibn-ir-Rushd
(Averroës). Like Ibni Taymiyya, all these three are scholars and
wrote hundreds of books. The savants of the Ahl as-sunnat gave
them valuable answers and exposed their errors. However, some
people, whose educational capacity was too narrow to realize the
greatness of the savants of Ahl as-sunnat, have been allured by
their books and derailed from the right way.
People who have been misguided by them want to prove that
they are right, and they try to deceive others also, by saying,
“When the Wahhâbîs fought the Ottomans, the Ottoman savants
slandered the Wahhâbîs. The hostility towards the State and
political enmity was turned into a religious disagreement by
religious authorities.” These allegations of theirs are wrong from
two points of view. As soon as Wahhabism appeared, the savants
of the Ahl as-sunnat started amr-i ma’rûf. They wrote that the
Wahhâbîs were on a wrong way. They invited them to the right
course. Beaten in knowledge, the Wahhâbîs took to barbarity.
They attacked Islamic cities. Only after these attacks did the
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