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

Al-basâ’îr li
munkiri ’t-tawassuli bi ahli ’l-maqâbir and the sixth part of Fatâwa al-
Hindiyya for more detail.

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people by depending on what you understand from the Qur’ân al-
kerîm and the hadîth ash-sherîf! They understood the Qur’ân al-
kerîm and the hadîth ash-sherîf better than you do. Having been
closer to the time of Rasûlullah (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam) than
you are; their intellect having been enlightened with the Ma’rifat-
Allah (knowledge about Allâhu ta’âlâ); having clung to the Sunna
fully; and their ikhlâs (quality of doing everything only for Allâhu
ta’âlâ’s sake), imân, tawhîd (belief in the oneness, unity, of Allâhu
ta’âlâ) and zuhd (not setting one’s heart on worldly things) having
been much greater, they knew much better than you and the like.
O you poor man with a religious post! Day and night you have
been thinking of and running after the desires of your stomach and
nafs. You have acquired some religious information in order to
satisfy them. Relying on your smattering, you think of yourself as
an authority on Islam. You attempt to compete with the Salaf as-
sâlihîn. Do not slander those great people of Islam who spent their
lives learning and teaching knowledge and who purified their
hearts with pious actions and who strictly abstained from
mushtabihât in order to consume halâl food and escape from the
harâm! They were much higher than you are. This state of yours is
like that of a sparrow competing with a falcon in eating and
drinking. The mujâhada, riyâdât, ’ibâdât, ijtihâds and words of
those great people were all in a manner as to suit with the Qur’ân
al-kerîm and the hadîth ash-sherîf. The Salaf as-sâlihîn themselves
acted upon ’azîmas, but issued fatwâs for Muslims to act upon
rukhsas.
“The majority of the ’ulamâ’ of Ahl as-Sunna said that îmân by
mere acceptance was sahîh (valid, lawful), even though such a
muqallid of îmân was disobedient and sinful because he had given
up istidlâl (reasoning, convincing oneself with reasonable
evidences). In other words, a person who believes only by learning
from somebody without thinking or understanding is a Believer, a
Muslim. The karâmât of Awliyâ’ are true. They may have karâmât
when they are dead as well as when alive. The karâmât of Hadrat
Mariam, of the As’hâb al-kahf and of the Âsaf ibn Barhiyâ, and of
the Prophet Hadrat Sulaimân’s (’alaihi ’s-salâm) vizier are
revealed in the Qur’ân al-kerîm. 
Karâmât are the things that
happen from the scholars of Ahl as-Sunna and which cannot be
comprehended through reason or science. Because karâmât did
not happen from those who were not Ahl as-Sunna, none of the
seventy-two groups believed in karâmât.
“A mujtahid does not err while searching for and choosing one
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of the âyats or hadîths as a document. But he may err while
deducing rules from the document which he has found. Therefore,
a mujtahid who has not erred will be given ten thawâbs and a
mujtahid who has erred will be given one thawâb. Rasûlullah (sall-
Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam) commanded Hadrat ’Amr ibn al-Âs: