Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

used to destroy the Muslims’ world. Now they attack their next
world and eternal felicity. They try to annihilate the belief of Ahl
as-sunnat by all possible means, e.g. by distributing among the
hadjis a Turkish version of the book Tahqîq wa Idhâh, written by
’Abdul’Azîz Bâz, director of the madrasa in Medîna-imunawwara.
On August 5th, 1990, the daily Turkish newspaper
Türkiye published an article confuting that perversive book, thus
protecting Muslims against the dire threat. They strive with all
their forces to drift Muslims into eternal perdition. They have
established a Wahhabite center called Râbitatul’âlamil-Islâmî in
the blessed city of Mekka. They have opened its branch offices in
every Muslim country. Spending money abundantly and suborning
men of religion with precarious faith and knowledge, they use
them for promulgating Wahhabism. To men of religion and
students of Islam in every country they distribute Wahhabite
books in their native languages free of charge. Every year, they
spend millions of gold coins in this way. The world’s Muslims, who
have been left without books, without knowledge in the last fifty
years as a result of the British policy, are easily misled into the
wrong and heretical Wahhabite beliefs. Thus the Madhhab of the
Ahl as-sunnat, which is right and which has been praised in
hadîth-i-sherîfs, is being forgotten, lost. Truth (right) is vanishing,
and falsehood (wrong) is settling everywhere. For Muslims, and
even for the entire humanity, no other calamity, no other disaster
can be worse or more harmful than this.
Some people say about Wahhâbîs: “They have some wrong
beliefs, but they have deduced them from âyat-i-kerîmas and
hadîth-i-sherîfs. Perhaps they are bid’at holders, but it is declared
in hadîth-i-sherîfs that bid’at holders are in this Ummat. They are
Muslims, too. They are ahl-i qibla. Mustn’t we love Muslims and
deem Wahhâbîs as brothers?” There is no doubt about the
soundness of this reasoning. However, loving holders of bid’at
entails giving them good counsel. A person who reads with reason
and understands the thirty-nine books we have named above will
not have any hesitation or doubt about the truth which our
statement bears. For example, Hadrat Ahmad Ridâ Khân
Barilawî, one of the greatest savants of India, wrote in his book
Fatâwâ-ul-Harameyn: “A hadîth-i sherîf, quoted by Tabarânî and
others, states: ‘A person who respects a bid’at holder has helped
Islam’s destruction.’ Our religion commands us to censure and
abhor bid’at holders. It is harâm to respect them. Islamic savants
state in their books, e.g. in Sharh-i maqâsid: ‘It is necessary to
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