CONTENTS

PART ONE: THE BELIEFS OF THE WAHHÂBÎS AND THEIR REFUTATION BY THE SCHOLARS OF AHL AS-SUNNA

1     Mutasawwifs' books do not contain polytheism (Maktûbât by al-Imâm ar-Rabbânî)[1]

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2     Îmân does not include 'ibâdât (Qasîdat al-Amâlî and Alhadîqa)

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3     To ask help of prophets and pious Muslims

19

4     Do Muslims worship awliyâ'? (Al-usûl al-arba'a)

20

5     Do Muslims worship tombs? (As-sawâ'iq al-ilâhiyya)

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6     To receive blessings from someone other than the Prophet

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7     The origin of tasawwuf (Maktûbât by Muhammad Ma'sum)

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8     The dead; the souls of awliya'

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9     To praise and to ask help of the Prophet (Mir'ât al-Madîna)

40

10   The dead's intercession

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11   Has Ahmad al-Badawi been deified?

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12   The Prophet and the Sahâbât al-kirâm

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13   On Qasîdat al-Burda (Maktûbât by Muhammad Ma'sum)

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14   Shall tombs be demolished (Zawâjir by Ibn Hajar al-Hitami)

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15   To enter the Prophet's masjid, but not visit his shrine? (Mir'ât al-Madîna)

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16   The salawat said for the Prophet

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17   Awliyâ' do help (Al-hadîth al-arba'în by 'Allâma Ahmad S. ibn Kamal)

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18   Karâmât of awliyâ' (Maktûbât by al-Imâm ar-Rabbânî and Al-mawâhib by al-Imâm al-Kastalâni)

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19   A walî does not make a show of karâmât (Maktûbât by Muhammad Ma'sum)

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[1] Subject discussed (and reference).

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20   The âyat "Allah and the Believers are sufficient for you."(Berîqa)

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21   To follow the Imâms of the madhhabs; taqlîd

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22   To expect something from somebody (Al-hadîqa)

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23   The Ahl as-Sunna and Qasîdat al-Burda

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24   The dead and the absentee (Al-minhat al-wahbiyya)

131

25   The Wahhâbis' ijtihads are false

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26   Visiting shrines (Rabita-i sharîfa)

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27   The Prophet hears the salawât

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28   The superiority of the as-Sahâbat al-kiram and the Tabi'un

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29   Help from living people and the dead (Maraq al-falah and Zawajir)

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30   To vow, to slaughter an animal for the dead (Ashad al-jihad in Al-minhat al-wahbiyya)

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31   Fatwa on the heresy of Wahhâbism (Arabic original appended to Al-minhat al-wahbiyya)

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32   The Wahhâbite book Cewab-i Nu'man (Maktubat by Muhammad Ma'sum); the lawfullness of reading the Mawlid and Dala'il al-khairat

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33   Tasawwuf and tariqas are not invented, but commanded in Islam (Irshad at-talibîn)

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34   To disbelievers of tasawwuf and karâmât (Al-hadîqa)

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35   In the next world, one will be with whom one loves (Al-hadîqa)

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PART TWO: THE  BEGINNING  AND   SPREAD   OF WAHHÂBISM[1]

36   The origins of Wahhâbism

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37   The first Wahhâbite mission

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38   The massacre and looting of the Muslims of Tâ'if

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39   The Wahhâbite persecutions in Mecca

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40   The Wahhâbis in Medina

300

41   The Ottomans clear the blessed cities of the Wahhâbite bandits

305

42   Invaluable works done in Mecca and Medina after the clearance

327

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[1] Translated, for the most part, from Ayyûb Sabrî Pasha's Turkish work Mir'ât al-Haramain; 5 volumes, Matba'a-i Bahriye, Istan­bul, 1301-1306 A.H.

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