===A REFUTATION OF BILAL PHILIPS AND HIS SLANDERS AGAINST AHLU-S-SUNNAH=== In the name of Allah, the Merciful to the Muslims in the World and the HereAfter, and Merciful to the unbelievers only in this World. BILAL PHILIP’S ACCUSES AHL AL-SUNNA SCHOLAR OF SHIRK AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN FUND RAISING EVENT In the recent fund raising event at Madison Square Garden, Bilal Philips, a follower of wahhabi (=also called “salafi”) ideologies accused a reputable orthodox Sunni (Shafi’i) Shaykh, Nuh Ha Mim Keller, of shirk. The exact words of Bilal Philips, who spoke over a telephone to the large audience, were: “We also have a distorted view coming from certain religious innovations, most of which could be attributed back to the principles of mysticism, Sufism which has appeared in the Muslim ummah, which though they attribute it back to Prophet (sall-Allahu ‘alayhi wa sallam), though the form which we cited [?] in half the countries have nothing to do with the Prophet’s (sall-Allahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) teachings at all….” Bial Philips continues to say: “And perhaps the greatest evil which came out of it is the principle of calling upon others beside Allah, where human beings are set up as intermediaries between man and God. And so we find people today, under the guise of Sufism etc., calling for such things. PEOPLE LIKE NUH HA MIM KELLER, IN HIS BOOK “THE RELIANCE OF THE TRAVELLER”, HE SPENDS A GREAT DEAL OF EFFORT AND TIME IN THE APPENDIX OF THE BOOK JUSTIFYING PRAYING TO PROPHET MUHAMMAD (Caps mine)…” As you clearly see, Bial Philips accused a Muslim scholar of justifying praying to Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), and when I checked the book, “The Reliance of the Traveller” thoroughly, there was absolutely no indication that Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller was supporting shirk. Rather, Nuh Ha Mim Keller’s book had a whole section on “TAWASSUL,” which is to ASK ALLAH FOR SOMETHING USING AN INTERMEDIARY. Using someone as an intermediary is not the same as actually “worshipping” the intermediary. This is a slander by Abu Aminah Bilal Philips against Ahl al-Sunna wa’al Jama’a who have supported “Tawassul” for over a thousand years. Tawassul was done by the Prophet (pbuh) himself, and was practiced by great Companions (like Bilal ibn al-Harith; may Allah bless him), and others of the pious salaf us-salih (Imam Shafi’i did tawassul by means of Imam Abu Hanifah). So in actuality, Bilal Philips is slandering not just Nuh Keller, but the Prophet (pbuh), the Companions, and the others of the salaf us-salih, and the ulema of the khalaf who followed their footsteps. It is not new that Bilal Philips has called “tawassul,” which is a permissible Islamic practice, to be unIslamic. He says the same in his books. BILAL PHILIPS’ STATEMENT IN HIS BOOK THAT TAWASSUL IS “UNISLAMIC”, AND HIS REVEALING HIMSELF AS A WAHHABI Bilal Philips, in his “Evolution of Fiqh,” page 130, says: “Furthermore, in opposing tawassul…the twentieth century descendants and followers of Ibn ‘Abdul-Wahhaab WERE ATTACKING UNISLAMIC PRACTICES (caps mine).” The above statement from Bilal Philips tells the readers two things about him. First, he acknowledges to be a supporter of wahhabees and hence becomes an innovator himself. By showing respect to Muhammad ibn ‘Abdl-Wahhab, the biggest innovator of the modern era, he contributes to the efforts of those who wish to destroy Islam. Ibrahim ibn Maisara reported Allah’s Messenger (Salla-Allahu-’alayhi-wasallam) as saying: “He who showed respect to an innovator he in fact aided in the demolishing of Islam (narrated by Baihaqi).” Second, Bilal Philips claims that tawassul is an “unIslamic practice” (which is why he accused Nuh Ha Mim Keller of shirk in the Madison Square Garden fundraising dinner). The false claims of Bilal Philips opposes the perspectives of Ahl al-Sunna wa’al Jama’ah (=scholars and followers of the Hanafi, Shafi’i, Maliki, and Hanbali madhahib, of which 99% of Muslims have been part of). Tawassul is in fact permissible and even recommended by the Sunni ulema and plenty of evidence in the Qur’an and Sunna exists for it. Tawassul (or asking Allah for something by means of an intermediary after the latter’s death — one of the ways of the legal ways of tawassul) is only rejected by the wahhabis today. WAHHABIS DEVIANCE AND THEIR REFUTATIONS; AL-ALBANI, TAMIMI, AND IBN BAAZ SHARE BILAL PHILIPS’ DEVIANCE AND SPEAK AGAINST TAWASSUL To read a refutation of the wahhabee movement, one can read plenty of books by Ahl al-Sunna scholars. “Al-Fitnatul-Wahhabiyya,” by the Mufti of Mecca, Ahmad ibn Zayni Dahlan ash-Shafi’i and “The Beacon of Humanity and the Clarification of Ignorance,” by the great Shaykh Ibn Alawi Al-Haddad.
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