Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

the end of the world, and these rules have been written in books.
If a person says that he can derive rules from the Qur’ân al-kerîm
and hadîth-i-sherîfs now, we will ask him to derive a rule which
does not exist in any of the four Madhhabs. He cannot do this!”
These facts are written more circumstantially in the books
entitled al-Basâir li-munkîr-it-tawassul-i bi-ahl-il-maqâbir and at-
Tawassul-u bin-Nabî wa jahâlat-ul-wahhâbiyyîn and Usûl-ularba’a
fîtardid-il-wahhâbiyya. These three books have been offset
by Hakîkat Kitâbevi. In the first book, there are passages taken
from the book Kashf-ush-Shubuhât by Muhammad bin
’Abdulwahhab and answers to each. That book is in Arabic. The
book entitled at-Tawassul-u bin Nabî is an abridged version of
Abû Hâmid bin Marzûqî’s ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’ book
entitled Barâat-ul-ash’ariyyîn, which was published in Damascus.
It is written in Sayyid ’Ahmad Tahtâwî’s annotation to Durrul-muhtâr;
in its section headlined Zabâyih: “Today it is wâjib for
every Muslim to be in one of the four Madhhabs. A person who is
not in one of the four Madhhabs has dissented from the Ahl assunnat.
And a person who is not Sunnî is either a heretic or a
disbeliever.” Also, the books entitled al-Basâir, al-Mustanad, and
Sayf-ul-Abrâr, which extirpate Wahhabism in India, write so and
add that they derive the fact from Ihyâ-ul-’ulûm. The last two of
them were written in India and the second edition of both books
have been published by Hakîkat Kitâbevi.
We are not knowledgeable enough to understand the Qur’ân
al-kerîm and hadîth-i-sherîfs. We read the Qur’ân al-kerîm not to
understand and do as it says, but to get blessed with it, to get
benefits from it. We imitators do not know the science of Tafsîr,
so we learn the rules of Islam from the books of our religious
guides. Our Madhhab leaders learned the meanings of the Qur’ân
al-kerîm from the Sahâba and from the Tâbi’în, and they wrote
them in their books in such a way as we can understand them
easily. The Sûras Nahl and Anbiyâ contain âyat-i-kerîmas which
purport: “Learn by asking the savants!” It is stated in a hadîth-isherîf:
“Each century will be worse than the one preceding it.
Thus time will go on changing from bad to worse until the end of
the world.” This hadîth-i-sherîf is written in Hadîqa, in the
chapter about the disasters incurred by one’s speech. May Allâhu
ta’âlâ protect us from despising the books written by the best of
people during the best of times and from being deceived by the
bad men of the bad centuries!
Yûsuf Nabhânî was one of the greatest savants of the
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