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

‘You yourself deduce rules! If you do not err you will get ten
thawâbs; if you err you will get one,’ concerning matters whereon
he could not find a nass. The one thawâb is not for his painstaking
in ijtihâd but for his hittingness in finding the document. If he errs
in finding the document, too, he will not be given any thawâb, but
those who follow such ijtihâds will not be tormented. To Allâhu
ta’âlâ, only one of various ijtihâds [on a particular matter] is right.
Others are wrong. According to the scholars of the Mu’tazila, a
mujtahid never makes a mistake, and what is right varies. Ijtihâd is
detailed in 
Mir’ât al-usûl, a commentary on Mirqât al-wusûl, both
by Molla Khusraw.
“It was declared in a hadîth sharîf that lies and slanders would
increase after the third century [of Islam]. Bid’as and heresies will
increase. Those who deviate from the path of the Salaf as-sâlihîn
in faith and worship will increase in number. The ’ulamâ’ of fiqh
and the pilgrims (sâlikûn) on the way of tasawwuf, who cling to the
Book and the Sunna, and the ijmâ’ of the Salaf as-sâlihîn will be
saved, others will suffer perdition. The ’ulamâ’ of fiqh and experts
in tasawwuf will exist until the end of the world. But it will not be
known for certain who they are. However, those whom Muslims
unanimously approve of will be known.
“It is fard ’ayn (commandment for every Muslim) to learn ’ilm
al-hâl (books, teachings, of one madhhab). Allâhu ta’âlâ declares,
‘Learn by asking those who know!’ So it is necessary for those who
do not know to learn from the ’ulamâ’ or their books. For this
reason, it is declared in a hadîth sherîf, 
‘It is fard both for men and
for women to learn knowledge.’ These commands show that it is
necessary to learn the teachings that should be done with the body
and with the heart from the books of ’ilm al-hâl and that we should
not believe what the ignorant, lâ-madhhabî men with religious post
[especially religion reformers] say or write.
“As it has been declared by the ’ulamâ’ of the right path
unanimously, it is fard ’ayn for every Muslim to learn the belief of
Ahl as-Sunna briefly and the fard and harâm actions thoroughly in
their daily life and ’ibâdât. If they do not learn these from the
books of ’ilm al-hâl, they become either heretics or disbelievers. It
is fard kifâya (fard for at least one Muslim) to learn more than
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these, e.g., the twelve preliminary branches of the Arabic
language, tafsîr, hadîth, science, medicine and mathematics. If one
person in a town performs the fard kifâya, it is not fard but
mustahab for other inhabitants of the town. Keeping fiqh books in
a town is like keeping Islamic scholars. It is not fard for anybody
in such a town to learn tafsîr, hadîth and the more-than-necessary
of fiqh, but it is mustahab. It is never fard for anybody to find out
the documents of the rules or to study them, while it is always
mustahab for scholars. Learning those branches of knowledge that
are mustahab is more blessed than performing supererogatory
(nâfila) ’ibâdât. When there exists no caliph, scholars undertake
his duties. It is wâjib to obey those scholars who lead a life
compatible with their knowledge.”
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45– It dates from the time of as-Sahâbat al-kirâm that the
enemies of Islam have been deceiving Muslims by disguising
themselves as men with religious duties in order to demolish
Islam from within. These enemies of Islam, who have worked in
the disguise of men with religious posts, have been called