Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

fourteenth century. He stayed in Medina for many years, and
thereby got the opportunity of observing Wahhabism closely. In
order to spread the information which he gathered, he wrote
forty-seven valuable books. In his book al-Fath-ul-kebîr, there are
fourteen thousand, four hundred and fifty hadîth-i-sherîfs
arranged in alphabetical order. It was published in three volumes.
His book Jâmi’u karâmât-il-Awliyâ, which consists of two
volumes, proves that karâmat is true. It was printed in Egypt in
1329 [1911]. All his forty-seven books were printed. His
Shawâhid-ul-haqq, which is well-known, was printed for the third
time in Egypt in 1385 A.H. [1965]. The book consists of five
hundred and seventy pages, of which four hundred and fifty pages
refute Ibni Taymiyya and Wahhâbîs, and the remaining hundred
and twenty pages explain the superiorities of the Sahâba, the
virtues of Hadrat Mu’âwiyya and ’Amr ibni ’Âs ‘radiy-Allâhu
’anhum’ and their service to Islam.
The professors of Jâmi’ul-Azhar, such as ’Allâma Shaikh ’Alî
Muhammad Bablâwî Mâlikî, ’Allâma Shaikh ’Abdurrahmân
Sharbînî, Shaikh Ahmad Husayn Shâfi’î, Shaikh Ahmad Basyânî
Hanbalî, ’Ârif ’Allâma Suleymân Shubrâwî Shâfi’î, Shaikh
’Abdulkerîm Râfi’î, and also the Chief Muftî of Egypt ’Allâma
Bakrî Muhammad Sadafî Hanafî, Professor ’Allâma Muhammad
’Abdulhayy Katânî Idrîsî Fâsî, ’Allâma Sayyid Ahmad Bey
Shâfi’î, Fâdil ’Allâma Shaikh Sa’îd-i Mûjî Shâfi’î, ’Allâma Shaikh
Muhammad Halabî Shâfi’î, and many another savant of the Ahl
as-sunnat liked the book Shawâhid-ul-haqq and praised it by
writing long articles.
In its fifth chapter it takes passages from the three books
which defend the bid’ats of Ibni Taymiyya, and refutes them with
âyat-i-kerîmas and hadîth-i-sherîfs. These three corrupt books are
Ighâsat-ul-lahfân, by Ibni Qayyim, fi-r-Radd-i ’alas-Subkî, by Ibni
’Abdul-Hâdî, and Jilâ-ul-’aynayn fî muhâkama-til-ahmadayn, by
Nu’mân ’Alûsî Baghdâdî, all of which have been written against
Ibni Hajar-i-Makkî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’.
The book entitled Shawâdid-ul-haqq states as follows on the
authority of the Ahl as-sunnat savants: “Islamic savants
unanimously state that after the fourth century of the Hegira the
world no longer had any savants capable of performing ijtihâd.
Today all Muslims have to follow one of the certain four
Madhhabs, for there is now nobody learned enough to
understand the Qur’ân al-kerîm and hadîth-i-sherîfs or to derive
rules from them. The Qur’ân al-kerîm and Rasûlullah’s ‘sall-
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