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

al-Mîzân al-kubrâ:
“O my Muslim brother! Meditate well! If Rasûlullah (sall-
Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam) had not explained what had been
revealed briefly and symbolically in the Qur’ân al-kerîm, the
Qur’ân al-kerîm would have remained concealed. If our a’immat
al-madhâhib (rahmatullâhi ’alaihim ajma’în), who were
Rasûlullah’s (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam) inheritors, had not
explained the brief hadîths, the Prophet’s Sunna would have
remained concealed. Therefore, the scholars of each century, by
following Rasûlullah (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam), explained all
the brief hadîths. Allâhu ta’âlâ declares in the 44th âyat of the
Sûrat an-Nahl, 
“You (the Prophet) shall explain (bayân) to
mankind what I send down for them.” ‘Bayân’ means ‘to express
the âyats of Allâhu ta’âlâ in other terms, in a different way.’ If the
scholars among the Umma had been able to explain âyats and to
interpret brief âyats and to infer rules from the Qur’ân al-kerîm,
Allâhu ta’âlâ would have said to His Prophet, ‘Tell them what is
sent to you through the Angel,’ and He would not have
commanded him to explain. Shaikh al-Islâm Zakariyyâ
(rahmatullâhi ’alaih) said, ‘If Rasûlullah (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa
sallam) had not interpreted what had been declared briefly in the
Qur’ân al-kerîm and if the a’immat al-madhâhib had not
explained what had been communicated symbolically, none of us
could have understood them. For example, if the Shâri’ (sall-
Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam) had not explained how to perform a
ritual ablution in his hadîths, we would not have been able to
deduce from the Qur’ân al-kerîm how to perform it. Similarly, the
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number of rak’as in each salât, the rules, cases and amount of
nisâb, the conditions and fard and sunna acts of fasting,
pilgrimage and zakât could not have been inferred from the
Qur’ân al-kerîm. None of the symbolically revealed Qur’ânic
rules would have been understood if they had not been explained
in the hadîth ash-sherîf.
“It is a symptom of faction (nifâq) to struggle against the
’ulamâ’ of Islam since it means to struggle to oppose and reject
their proofs (dalâ’il). Allâhu ta’âlâ declares in the 46th âyat of the
Sûrat an-Nisâ of the Qur’ân al-kerîm,