Islam's Reformers by Huseyin Hilmi Isik - HTML preview

FOOTNOTES (89-99)

[89] This hadîth forbids friendship, eating and marrying with ahl al-bid’a. It is written in Hindiyya and Bahr ar-râiq, “Zindîqs, Bâtînîs, Ibâhîs and all the groups with beliefs that cause kufr are mushriks (polytheists) like idolaters and worshippers of stars. Marriage with such mushriks or intercourse with their females as jâriyas is harâm.”

The above writings conclude that, if the belief of those who do not belong to one of the four madhhabs, i.e. those who are not of Ahl as-Sunna, causes kufr, they become mushriks. Marriage with them and eating the carcass they have slaughtered are harâm. Of them, those whose belief does not cause kufr are ahl al-bid’a, and marriage with them is not harâm; though the nikâh would be sahîh, not with them but with Al as-Sunna should Muslims get married, because living with them and even greeting them are forbidden by hadîths.

[90] The Arabic work Fatâwâ ’l-Haramain, from which the foregoing ten fatwâs are translated, has been reproduced in by offset process in Istanbul. The author, Ahmad Ridâ Khân Barilawî, passed away in India in 1340 A.H. (1921).

[91] For more detailed information on this knowledge and on mawdû’ hadîths, see the fifth chapter in the book Endless Bliss, II.

[92] Imâm Muhammad al-Birghiwî, Usûl al-hadîth, p. 91.

[93] Mawlânâ Hamd-Allah ad-Dajwî, al-Basâ’ir li-munkirî’t-tawassuli bi-ahl al-maqâbir, Pashawar, Pakistan, 1385, p. 52.

[94] For the originals and explanations of these five hadîths, see an-Nablûsî’s Arabic book al-Hadîqat an-nadiyya published by Hakîkat Kitabevi.

[95] ’Udhr means an excuse, a hindrance which Islam recognizes as a good reason for not doing a religious duty.

[96] An-Nablûsî, al-Hadîqa.

[97] Thanking and lauding Allâhu ta’âlâ.

[98] Bism-Illâh-ir-Rahmân-ir-Rahîm. (In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful and the Most Compassionate.)

[99] For those who want to learn in detail the real purposes of Ibn Taimiyya, the leader of the anti-madhhabite, and of those who are excessive in anti-madhhabism, Indian scholar Muhammad Hamd-Allah ad-Dajwi’s Arabic work al-Basâ’ir li-munkiri ’t-tawassuli bi-ahl al maqâbir and Muhammad Hasan Jan al-Fârûqi al-Mujaddidi as-Sirhindi’s Persian work al-Usûl al-arba’a fî tardîd al-Wahhâbiyya (both were first printed in India and later reproduced in Istanbul, 1395/1975) are recommendable.

FOOTNOTES (100-106)

[100] Busrâ is located 90 km southeast of Damascus and 130 km northeast of Jerusalem.

[101] It goes without saying that Allâhu ta’âlâ lifted Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ to heaven, alive as he was. This truth belies the Christian superstition which instructs that he was ‘crucified and interred, and then somehow ascended to heaven’.

[102] Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-94), French chemist and physician.

[103] Maktûbât, III, 23rd letter.

[104] Please see Endless Bliss, V, 1, for zakât.

[105] Râshî means ‘from the Syrian town Râsia’. It does not mean ‘briber’.

[106] Knowledge that is acquired not for the purpose of practising it with ikhlâs, will not be beneficial. Please see the 366th and 36th pages of the first volume of Hadîqa, and also the 36th and the 40th and the 59th letters in the first volume of Maktûbât. (The English versions of these letters exist in the 16th and the 2th and the 28th chapters, respectively, of the second fascicle of Endless Bliss).