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

Hujjat-Allâhi ’ala ’l-’âlamîn.
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But it
is feared that those who do not know these answers or who have
not read them may get deceived and fall down into the abyss. That
is why we took to writing. In order to prevent young men of
religious profession from being carried away by this destructive
gale and being led into calamity, we had to answer these lies. For
doing this, we deemed it suitable to translate passages also from
the books 
Shawâhid al-haqq and Sihâm as-sâ’iba li as’hâbi ’d-
da’âwi ’l-kâdhiba in our various books.
As Hadrat al-Imâm ash-Shâfi’î said, every Muslim certainly
obeys every sahîh hadîth. There is not a Muslim unaware of this. It
is surprising that the religion reformer writes this as a support for
his allegations; in fact, he uses it as a mask, and it has nothing to do
with taqlîd or ijtihâd. It is a statement which any Muslim would
say.
Another slander of the religion reformer which he repeats
frequently is: “An ijtihâd disagreeing with a hadîth should be put
aside.” When ijtihâds were employed by the a’immat al-
madhhâhib, there were some hadîths that were not known to
them. When such hadîths appeared, the mujtahids who were their
disciples put aside their masters’ ijtihâds that disagreed with these
hadîths. For, all the four a’immat al-madhâhib had commanded
them to do so. As quoted above, the religion reformer also writes
some such commands of al-Imâm ash-Shafi’î. No new hadîth could
be found now, so there is not the question of any hadîth
disagreeing with ijtihâds. All the hadîths have been reported. Basic
books of Islam do not contain any hadîth disagreeing with the
hadîths which are sahîh. There have been those hadîths left now
from which mujtahids did not deduce rules because they were
mansûkh or because there were not sufficient witnesses for their
soundness. There might certainly be disagreement between
ijtihâds and them, but all of such ijtihâds were deduced from
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[1] See the translation from this book in