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

‘When you cannot find [the solution of]
something in the Sunna, judge about it by finding it out
through your own ra’y!’ A person who follows a mujtahid
will have made him the possessor of Islam, which belongs to
Rasûlullah.”
Ash-Shawkânî’s statement “According to the majority of
scholars, taqlîd is never permissible in a’mâl,” is his own opinion,
in which he misinterprets the fact that the mujtahids’ taqlîd of one
another is not permissible. He gives reference from such a
separatist as Ibn Hazm (d. 456/1064). The four a’immat al-
madhâhib never said that ordinary Muslims should not imitate
others. We have written about this already. And the idea “It is not
permissible to follow the dead,” is one of the beliefs in Shî’ism to
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which as-Shawkânî belonged. That he is surprised at Ahl as-Sunna
scholars’ not holding the same idea shows that he was a heretic
who held much to this Shî’ite belief. And his reference that since
the scholars of fiqh belonging to the four madhhabs “are
muqallids, their words could not be documents,” shows that he is
confused because of his own heresy and excessive bigotry.
However, he admits in his first two sentences that a scholar of fiqh
who is a muqallid follows the imâm al-madhhab and does not
speak from himself, and his words are the imâm al-madhhab’s
words, which, as he himself means in his tenth sentence, are
documents. It was certainly true that the taqlîd was unnecessary
during the time of as-Sahâbat al-kirâm, since they all were
mujtahids. But there are thousands of examples, listed in many
books, showing that the muqallids among the Tabi’ûn were much
greater than mujtahids. By writing that Rasûlullah (sall-Allâhu
’alaihi wa sallam) commanded the Sahâbîs whom he sent as judges
to other places to judge in accordance with their own ra’y, ash-
Shawkânî rebuts his own claims. Allâhu ta’âlâ makes him, too,
prove that Ahl as-Sunna is right.
As it is seen, the lâ-madhhabî and religion reformers speak
through the tongue of ash-Shawkânî. In order to deceive Ahl as-
Sunna, the reformer represents a heretic, an enemy of Ahl as-
Sunna, as a mujtahid mutlaq. It is written in