Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

getting a sealed paper from a lâ-madhhabî, from an enemy of the
Ahl as-sunnat, go back to Pakistan or to India. Youngsters who
see their counterfeit diplomas and hear them speak Arabic think
that they are Islamic savants. But, in fact, they cannot even read a
book of Fiqh. And they know nothing of the teachings of Fiqh in
a book. In fact, they do not believe these Islamic teachings; they
call them bigotry. Of old, Islamic savants looked up the answers
to the inquiries made to them in books of Fiqh, and gave the
inquirers the answers they found. But the la-madhhabî man of
religion being incapable of reading or understanding a book of
Fiqh, will mislead the questioner by saying whatever occurs to his
addled head and defective mind, and will cause them to go to
Hell. It is to this effect that our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa
sallam’ declared: “The good ’âlim is the best of mankind. The bad
’âlim is the worst of mankind.” This hadîth-i-sherîf shows that the
Ahl as-sunnat savants are the best of mankind, and the lâmadhhabîs
are the worst of mankind. For, the former guide
people to following Rasûlullah, i.e., to Paradise, and the latter
lead them to their heretical thoughts, i.e., to Hell.
Ustâd Ibn Khalîfa ’Alîwî, a graduate of the Islamic University
of Jâmî’ al-Azhar, states in his book Aqîdat as-salafi wa-l-khalaf:
“As ’Allama Abû Zuhra writes in his book Târîkh al-madhâhibi-l-
Islâmiyya, some people, who deviated from the Hanbalî Madhhab
called themselves Salafiyyîn. Abu-l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzî and other
savants, who were in the Hanbalî Madhhab too, proclaimed that
those Salafis were not the followers of the Salaf as-sâlihîn, that
they were holders of bid’at, that they belonged to the Mujassima
group: thereby they prevented this fitna from spreading. In the
seventh century Ibni Taymiyya incited this fitna again.” The book
writes the various bid’ats held by the Salafîs and Wahhâbîs and
the aspersions they cast upon the Ahl as-sunnat in detail, and
answers them. The book was printed in Damascus in 1398 A.H.
[1978]. It has 340 pages. Lâ-madhhhabîs call themselves Salafiyya.
They say that Ibni Taymiyya is the greatest imâm of the Salafiyya.
Their assertion is correct in one respect: the word salaf did not
exist before Ibni Taymiyya. The existing word was salaf-i sâlihîn,
and their i’tiqâds were of the Ahl-i sunnat Madhhab. The
heretical ideas of Ibni Taymiyya became a reference source for
Wahhâbîs and other lâ-madhhabîs. Ibni Taymiyya was trained in
the Hanbalî Madhhab. That is, he was Sunnî. But, as he increased
his knowledge and reached the grade of fatwâ, he took to selfsufficiency
and began to assume superiority over the savants of
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