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

al-Mîzân al-kubrâ for the name of many of those
scholars who changed their madhhabs.

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The religion reformer claims that the scholars of Ahl as-Sunna
were afraid of telling the truth. He slanders; they always told the
truth in every century. As everybody knows, many of them were
martyred for this reason. There is no partisanship in Islam; why
should we search for its causes, then? There are the four
madhhabs today. None of them belongs to anybody. Each Muslim
follows the madhhab he likes, for, all four of them are right. All
four are true. All four are Ahl as-Sunna. All four are
Muhammadî. All of those who follow the four madhhabs consider
one another as brothers. The îmân, the beliefs, of all of them are
the same. Most of their acts of worship are the same, too. They are
different in doing a few discordant matters. However, this
difference is a compassion, a blessing of Allâhu ta’âlâ for
Muslims.
There are no men of religious duty who do not know the high
religious status of Hadrat ’Abd al-Wahhâb ash-Sha’rânî, who was
a great scholar, expert in bâtinî and zâhirî knowledge. Only
religion reformers refuse to accept his status. This exalted scholar
wrote:
“The îmâms of the four madhhabs and all scholars who
followed them said that every Muslim was free to adapt himself to
any of the four madhhabs, that it was permissible to transfer
oneself from one madhhab to another, and that one could follow
another madhhab when there was haraj (compulsory necessity).
Allâhu ta’âlâ decreed and predestinated in the eternal past that
Muslims would part into four madhhabs and that this would be
useful for His slaves. If He had not decreed so, it would not have
been so, and His Messenger (’alaihi ’s-salâm) would not have said
that this parting was of the Divine Compassion, and as He
prohibited parting in belief (i’tiqad), so He would have prohibited