Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Page 72-76 (Correction of the Historical Errors About AL-WAHHABIYYAH)

adopted this nickname for the mission, for their desires. From outside, people with similar motives also joined the bandwagon. This was the reason behind divisions among Muslims and distortion of facts taught by the Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم and his guide Caliphs. Really this nickname has conformed to the ulterior motives of Islam's who always wish to sow seeds of discord and rattle Islam's united front and cause chaos. They aim to break of all Muslims. Enjoins of Allaah and to destroy the brotherhood of all Muslims. Enjoins of Islam have good relationship among all its followers.

Prophet Muhammad صلر الله عليه و سلم said:
"The smile of the believers in their love of mercy is like an entire body; if one organ is sick, the rest of the body will answer with pain and fever."

[Reported by Al-Tirmidhi]

 The nickname was used in order to create a spirit of enmity and hatred. They are certain that when Islam has a common front they will definitely lose. From another perspective illiteracy in Muslim communities was particularly high; people were only taught superficial knowledge by half-baked scholars. Whatever comes from the court is swallowed hook, line and sinker by the populace. There are scholars who are learned and versatile though these have limited reach and the information disseminated from them may not reach all nooks and crannies. Sheikh Abdullaah Bin Abdul Ganiy Al-Khayat, the Chief Imam of the holy Mosque in Makkah had written...

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in his weekly column in Okaz (a weekly Newspaper which published every Tuesday) that Mr. Ahmad 'Ali Al-khazimi writes (in one of his book) a British officer called Harvard who stayed in Iraq as a political deputy (1199 to 1209 AH) was a contemporary of Imam Muhammad. He also had dealings with the Amir Saud Bin Abdul Aziz who became the 3rd ruler in the Saudi government, which came into power after his father was killed in 1218 AH.

This Officer wrote a brief History of Wahhabiyyah. He says:
"It was announced by the great gate that Ibn Sa'ud was preventing people from visiting Al-Madinah; but the correct thing was that he was preventing them from wielding the axe of polytheism at the 'Radhaha secluded portion of the Prophet's Mosque as he prevented visits to the graves of saints"

The masses have assumed that Wahhabiyyah, the mission of Sheikh Muhammad Bin Abdul-Wahhab as Salafi- as explained by the official scholars and others. It is infidelity and anybody who follows it is also an infidel.

Such details of creed are familiar to any one with interests in such studies and they know that Abdul-Wahhab and his followers are on the right path; that is Qur'an and the Sunnah...

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But with regard to jurisprudence-they belong to the Hunbli which cannot considered to be 5th school of law as they claim. This causes disdain and abhorence (people shy away from this regiment). The Hanbali school of though was taken to Najd about a century before Abdul-Wahhab was born. Those students who studied in Egypt were the followers of this school of thought. Formerly Maliki and Hanafi were the popular school of though in Najd.

Burkhart has spoken the truth when he was quoted to have said:

Almost all the rumours about  Wahhabiyyah have come out of misconception of the mission of Wahhabiyyah. This mission is nothing but eternal purification of Islam.

This statement was elucidated by a non Muslim, but an objective realist, who does not shy away from the truth. A similar statement was uttered by people like Prof. Mann Haroun in his rejoinder to the English writer Contrails. An American Researchers Lathrob Steward in his book 'The Muslim world Today' and the orientalist German, karl proclaimed in his book 'The History of the Muslim Nations' which gave a thorough analysis and study of this movement in Vol IV and the German historian Dacoport Von Mykos, in his book 'Abdul Aziz' published in Germany ib 1953.

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Prof. Delfored Cantoe in His book 'Islam as viewed by the West, and the French scholar Bernard Louis, in his book 'Arabs in History', the Austrian Orientalist Gould Zihr, in his book ' Belief and Shariah (legal System)' the English Orientalist Sidion in his book 'A General History of the Arabs'. in his book 'A General History of the Arabs'.

'Encyclopedia Britannica', which stated that Wahhabiyyah is the name of a movement aimed at the purification of Islam. Its followers follow the teachings of prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم alone and they neglect anything else. The enemies of Wahhabiyyah are the enemies of correct Islam.

While in the Muslim countries, there are also objective voices that said the truth and nothing but the truth which must be conveyed to the people about the mission of Abdul Wahhab. They include Sheikh Muhammad Bashir As-Sahasawany (India) in his book "Shielding Man from the insinuation of Dahlan."

Sheikh Mahmoud Shukry Al-Alousi an Iraqi author, in a book which he wrote about the history of Najd, Sheikh Ahmad Bin Sa'eed Al-Baghadadi from Iraq in his book 'Litrary men in comparison.'

Sheikh Jumalueddeen Al-Qassimi, Sheikh Abdul-Razzaq Al-Bitar, Sheikh Al-Jaza'iri and Sheikh Muhammad Kamil Al-Gahassab from Syria all these scholars have studied this...

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movement and were astonished with their findings and endorsed Wahhabiyyah in their society (Syria).

This caused the Ottoman Sultanate to take Sheikh Jumaluddeen Al-Qassim to court where he was acquitted.

This beside the opinion of many scholars i.e. As-Sayed Muhammad Ridha in his boo, titled 'Wahhabis and Hijaz' and a number or articles written by him, published in Al-Manara Magazine.

Muhammad Kurd Ali, Shukaib Arsalan, Philip Hitti, Amin Sa'eed, Ali Al-Tantawi, Al-Zakali, Muhammad Jamil Bayhim, 'Umar Abu An-Nasr and Abdul Muta'al Al-Sa'eedi In his book "The Reformers".

Hamid Al-Fagi, in his book " The Imapct of Wahhabi Mission"

Abdul-Aziz Bakr in << Arabic Literature and its history>> 

Mustapha Al-Hafnawiy and Dr. Ahmad Ameen in " The Leaders of Revivalism"

Muhammad Qassim, "History of Europe", Mama Al-Qattan, "The Islamic Call".

Abdul Kareem Bin Khateeb in "Muhammad Bin Abdul Wahhab" Muhammad Zia Ud-Deen in " Al-Irshad. 1373 AH".

Dr. Muhammad Bin Abdullaah Madhi, "Muslim World Today"

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