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

(Science
bigots), or (Religion reformers) or (Zindîqs). These are
separatists who slander both Islam and the science. If Muslims
had not believed in geography, would they have studied this
branch of knowledge? The names and authors of the geography
books that make known Muslims’ studies and discoveries in this
field are written in the books 
Kashf az-zunûn and Mawdû’ât al-
ulûm and also in Brockelmann’s German Geschichte der
Arabischen Literatur. Let us ask the religion reformer: who
measured first the length of one meridian on the Sinjar Desert?
Weren’t they the Muslims of Ahl as-Sunna who belonged to one
of the four madhhabs? Won’t a Muslim who follows their path
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and who is like them believe in scientific knowledge?
Moreover, it is a squalid slander against Muslims to ascribe the
statement, “Geography is a branch of knowledge belonging to
non-Muslims, so it is not acceptable,” to a preacher. An ignorant
person, a heretic or a religion reformer who disguises himself as a
preacher may speak so nonsensically. But it would be enmity
against Islam to say that an honourable Muslim following one of
the four madhhabs spoke so.
The madhhabs do not prohibit science, technology, calculation
or experimentation; why, then, should a person who follows a
madhhab prohibit them? The madhhabs commend them and
order muqallids to learn them. A person who does not believe or
learn them cannot be a follower of an imâm al-madhhab. It befits
the enemies of the madhhabs to attribute such words to a follower
of a madhhab.
14– A preacher could not be so ignorant as to take the humble,
poor and contemptible state Muslims are in as a sign of the
imminence of Doomsday, for, the imâm al-madhhab whom he
follows reported that there would be wealth, excessiveness, many
buildings and much fornication towards Doomsday. A muqallid
should know this fact, too. If he does not know it, he is the
follower of no madhhab. The a’immat al-madhâhib said that
people would become evil after Hadrat al-Mahdî
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and before him
there will be many days of happiness. Muslims should live these
happy days and, therefore, work and make progress materially
and spiritually. Allâhu ta’âlâ will certainly reward the one who
works.
15– The religion reformer uses the term “the concept of the
Mahdî” about Hadrat al-Mahdî. He says he does not believe that
Hadrat al-Mahdî will come in the future. The religion reformer, a
zindîq, may not, but Muslims should believe that he will come
since all the ’ulamâ’ of Islam unanimously write that he will come.
Such great scholars as al-Imâm as-Suyûtî and Ibn Hajar al-Makkî
(d. 974/1566) wrote books about Hadrat al-Mahdî. They quoted
what more than two hundred hadîths uttered about him and the
alâmât (signs) of his coming in the future.
16– The religion reformer says:
“Concerning any matter on which there has been no
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[1] See the books