For thirteen hundred years enemies of Islam failed to
stand against Islam. All their attacks reflected harm on them. The Islamic
religion spread far and wide. At last they realized that Muslims’ chests, full
with îmân, were too firm for them to thrust a dagger into. They began to think
of how to hit Muslims from the spiritual front, i.e. to corrupt their faith and
morality, and concocted plans to destroy Islam from the inside.
As Islam rapidly spread over Asia and Africa in the
times of hadrat ’Umar and hadrat ’Uthmân, a sly Jew of Yemen, named Abdullah
bin Saba’, pretended to be a Muslim and beguiled an Egyptian group into
martyring hadrat ’Uthmân. Thus a very serious catastrophic fitna arose and
millions of Muslims shed one another’s blood. The factious sect which was thus
founded in the name of Saba’ came to be called the Hurûfî sect in the eighth
century (of the Hegira). Ringleaders of this sect wrote books spoiling the
Islamic beliefs and deranging the moral qualities prescribed by Islam.
Later on, another miscreant group, whose major aim
was to destroy Islam’s Madh-habs, appeared sometime during the twelfth century
of the Hegira and spread in Arabia.[1] The British,
who had fought against Muslims in World War I, founded a new state in Hidjâz
after the war. They took the two holy Islamic cities, Mekka and Medina, away
from the Ottomans and gave these cities to this new state. Thus another fitna
corroding Islam from within began to spread. Only those Muslims who hold fast
to the books written by scholars of Ahl as-Sunna have managed to survive this
disastrous flood of fitna.
It has been seen recently that some heretical books
have been published and serving the purpose of causing discordance in our
country. We therefore have considered it would be appropriate to reveal the
lies and slanders fabricated in these books, which have been prepared for the
purpose of effacing young people’s beliefs and are offered to them like wolves
in lambs’ hides or like poisoned honey. Trusting ourselves to the divine
kindness and help of Allâhu
ta’âlâ, we have taken very injurious samples
from
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[1] Please see the book Confessions of a British Spy.
these books and confuted them with documentary evidences, thus preparing a book, and named this book Let Us Be In Unity. May infinite hamd-u-thenâ be to our Rabb for granting us the lot of printing the book! We hope that our young brothers will read this book now, see clearly between right and wrong, and adhere to the true way guided by scholars of Ahl as-Sunna. We supplicate to Allâhu ta’âlâ to bless them with the lot of attaining this greatest fortune.