Shaykh Muhammad Sultan al-Khajnadee
Language: English | Format: PDF | Pages: 65 | Size: 1 MB
Anyone who comes across the discussions of the followers of the madhhabs
will not doubt that the misfortune of blind-following of madhhabs is
one of the causes of decline of the Muslims and their backwardness. It
has transformed their minds so that they do not think except with the
minds of other people. The Imaams and their first students –
rahimahumullaah – did not blindly stick to their own opinions like these
followers who have forgotten a large portion of the advice given by the
Imaams. Thus Shaytaan has caused enmity and hatred between them so that
they relit a fire which Allaah had extinguished and in reality, they
turned away from the sayings of the Mujtahid Imaams and clung onto the
hypothetical answers given by late-comers who did not leave anything of
the madhhabs except their names. Many scholars throughout the ages have
understood this fact and so they have written about it and done well.
But the work of ‘Allaamah al-Ma’soomee – rahimahullaah – Hadiyyat
us-Sultaan ilaa Muslimee Bilaad il-Yaabaan is, despite its small size,
perhaps one of the most beneficial books written on the subject. This is
this due to its excellent style and strength of proofs, to the point
that it is a fatal blow to the misfortune of blind-following of
madhhabs. This is a concise version of this book, edited by Shaykh
Saleem al- Hilaalee. This book was translated into English by Daawood
ibn Ronald Burbank. We ask Allaah, the Blessed and Most High, to make
this work beneficial to the Muslims. Those who do not give precedence to
anything before Allaah and His Messenger, so that they may unsheathe
the sword of knowledge, which is: ‘Allaah says… His Messenger says…’ And
ride upon the back of truth, which is acquiring knowledge along with
its proof. Thus expelling from Islaam the alterations of those going
beyond bounds, the false claims of the deceptive, the misinterpretations
of the ignorant and the bigotry of the blind- followers: those who pick
and choose from the Qur’aan and divide up their Deen into sects and
become separate groups.
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