Hakikat Kitabevi Publications No: 10 answer to an enemy of islam

Al-munjid.
None of them was able to understand the Qur’ân al-kerîm or even
to attain to the honour of being a Muslim. The Qur’ân al-kerîm
summons people to happiness, to îmân, to Islam. If they had
understood this invitation, they would have accepted it. Their
disbelief does not show that Allâhu ta’âlâ’s invitation is not clear
or eloquent. The Qur’ân al-kerîm addresses as-Sahâbat al-kirâm,
their lightsome hearts, and unerring reason. It invites by means of
the Quraish language. It does not speak the Arabic taught in the
Jâmi’ al-Azhar or Beirut. As-Sahâbat al-kirâm matured in
Rasûlullah’s (’alaihi ’s-salâm) suhba (companionship, company)
and attained to the perfection which could not be reached by
others among the Umma; yet their understanding (some parts of)
the Qur’ân al-kerîm was different from one another’s. There were
also points they could not understand. Since those great people
were incapable, how will the case be with such people like us who
understand slang Arabic? Our a’immat al-madhâhib did not
attempt to derive meanings from the Qur’ân al-kerîm, but,
regarding themselves as incapable of doing this, strived to learn,
by asking as-Sahâbat al-kirâm, the way Rasûlullah (’alaihi ’s-
salâm) had explained the Qur’ân al-kerîm. Also, they preferred
what as-Sahâbat al-kirâm had understood to what they
themselves understood. Al-Imâm al-a’zam Abû Hanîfa (d.
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150/767, rahmatullâhi ’alaih) would prefer the word of any Sahâbî
to his own understanding. When he found no information coming
from Rasûlullah (’alaihi ’s-salâm) or from as-Sahâbat al-kirâm, he
had to employ ijtihâd. Islamic scholars in each century have
trembled before the greatness, superiority, wara’ and taqwâ of
their predecessors and have held fast to their words as proofs and
documents. Islam is a religion of manners (âdâb) and modesty
(tawâdu’). An ignoramus behaves daringly and thinks of himself
as an Islamic scholar, but a scholar humbles himself. He who
humbles himself will be exalted by Allâhu ta’âlâ. Each of the
chiefs of the seventy-two groups, who will go to Hell as it was
stated by Rasûlullah (’alaihi ’s-salâm), was a profound scholar,
too; yet, they depended on their knowledge too much and
attempted to derive meanings from the Book and the Sunna.
Therefore, they could not attain to the honour of adapting
themselves to as-Sahâbat al-kirâm and deviated from the right
path. They caused millions of Muslims to go to Hell. The ’ulamâ’
of the four madhhabs did not use their deep knowledge in
deriving rules from the Qur’ân al-kerîm; they did not dare to do
this. They used it in understanding what Rasûlullah (’alaihi ’s-
salâm) as-Sahâbat al-kirâm had said. Allâhu ta’âlâ does not
command people to derive rules from the Qur’ân al-kerîm. He
commands them to obey and accept the rules brought by His
Messenger (’alaihi ’s-salâm) and as-Sahâbat al-kirâm. The
religion reformers’ incapacity in understanding this subtlety has
driven them to perdition. Allâhu ta’âlâ’s commands,