As it is understood from
the beginning of his book to the end, Rashîd Ridâ does not posses any firm
faith or reasonable opinion. He looks for grounds for traducing the Ahl
as-Sunna and the four madhhabs and beats about the bush. By using his masonic
master’s cunning policy and putting in arbitrary examples by translating from
books written in Arabic, his mother tongue, he introduces himself as a
religious scholar. Lest our young men of religious profession and the pure,
credulous Muslims should believe in the lies and slanders of this cunning enemy
of the Ahl as-Sunna, we have written this humble refutation.
In summary, the purpose
of this book, Answer to an Enemy of Islam,
is to explain that the four madhhabs of Ahl as-Sunna were deduced from the Qur’ân al-kerîm and the hadîth
ash-sherîf. The books of fiqh that exist in the contemporary age do not
contain any ijtihâd disagreeing with any hadîth. Of their ijtihâds, which seem
to disagree with one another, only one of them is right, yet those who follow
the wrong ones, as pointed out in the hadîth ash-sherîf,
will also be given thawâb. Therefore, as it will be sahîh (valid) and maqbûl
(acceptable in the view of Allâhu ta’âlâ) to do what has been conveyed
unanimously in their four madhhabs, so it will be sahîh and maqbûl to do what
they disagreed on. Then, every Muslim who is not a mujtahid has to choose and
follow one of the four madhhabs in everything he does, without any need to
search for the documents of the imâm al-madhhab, for, the new Muslims among the
Tâbi’în imitated as-Sahâbat al-kirâm without asking for any documentation. When
doing anything in accordance with the madhhab he has liked and chosen, every
Muslim should believe that he is obeying the Qur’ân
al-kerîm or the hadîth ash-sherîf.
There is no need for a
mujtahid today. For, nothing has been left unexplained among Islamic teachings.
There is nothing to be added to this religion, which has already become
perfect. Rules for everything that will happen until Doomsday were declared by
Rasûlullah
(sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam) and explained by the a’immat al-madhâhib. Those
scholars who are not mujtahids can manage their application to daily events.
Mujaddids who will come in every century will do this job, but, because it is
no longer necessary, they will not deduce new rules through ijtihâd. Every
harâm, halâl or document has been explained.
Now, anybody who wants to
attain to endless happiness should learn the faith of Ahl as-Sunna briefly and
believe accordingly, and then, choosing the one which is possible and easy for
him to learn of the four madhhabs, he should learn one by one about his daily doings
and ’ibâdât in a book of that madhhab and practise them accordingly. In every
country, genuine books of ’ilm al-hâl, each writing the teachings of one
madhhab, are easily available. This opportunity is Allâhu ta’âlâ’s great
blessing over the Ummat al-Muhammad (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam). Infinite
thanks be to Allâhu ta’âlâ for this great blessing of His! We ought to be on
the alert lest we should be deceived by the false words and writings of
heretics, of the lâ-madhhabî, of religion reformers and of those ignorant
people who speak and write in order to earn money!
As-salâmu ’alâ man ittaba
’Al-hudâ.