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

Endless Bliss, II.

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religion reformer and to represent the Ahl as-Sunna men of
religious post as ignorant.
22– The religion reformer says:
“Recently most of those who call themselves Ahl as-
Sunna wa ’l-Jamâ’a have not been able to escape the bid’a
made up by the Bâtinîs and others. They are different in
name only. If you compare the words of the Bâtinîs with
those of the men of tasawwuf of the fourth and later
centuries, you will find little difference between them.”
Here again the religion reformer reveals his ignorance in Islam.
Contrary to what he writes, the term 
Ahl as-Sunnat wa ’l-Jamâ’a
was not invented after Rasûlullah (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam),
who had referred to this term and called Muslims to unite under
this name. The hadîths, 
“Hold fast to my sunna,” and “Do not
depart from the Jamâ’a,” are the evidence of this call. With his
insolent lie above, the reformer attacks the superior scholars of
Ahl as-Sunna and the great Awliyâ’ and attempts to vilify them.
The books of Ahl as-Sunna scholars are still the same just as they
were written a thousand years ago. There may be ignorant or
heretical people in every branch of science and knowledge, among
every class of people, and it is a great injustice to attack the word
Ahl as-Sunna by taking a few such people as examples. And
likening the great men of tasawwuf to the Bâtinîs is one of the
tactics of the religion reformers which they have used most
frequently. Mistaking the scholars of bâtin (interior, hidden
knowledge) for the zindîqs called Bâtinîs is like misrepresenting
light as dark, right as wrong, and honest as crooked. Rashîd Ridâ’s
book is very far from being a scientific work; it is more of a writing
prepared by a conjurer in order to deceive and hoodwink the
readers.
23– Rashîd Ridâ says through the preacher’s mouth:
“I do not see why the scholars of kalâm and fiqh keep
silent against the instigation of the subversive Shî’ites, who
have both deviated themselves and caused others to deviate
from the right path, nor can I explain it to myself. Men of
kalâm have always been against the Mu’tazila, refuted and
vehemently resisted against their beliefs. The Mu’tazila
doctrine and its devotees, therefore, have faded away from
history. As for the scholars of fiqh, though all of them
belong to Ahl as-Sunna wa ’l-Jamâ’a, they have been
struggling against one another, refuting one another.”
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Obviously, these slanders against the scholars of kalâm and
fiqh, which Rashîd Ridâ writes through the preacher, will not
convince anyone. Libraries are full of books of refutation written
by the scholars of Ahl as-Sunna. Those written in Persian are not
fewer than the Arabic ones. If Rashîd Ridâ knew Persian and had
read the book