Part 12. The Barelwi Fitnah of Tafkir: Past and Present In this respect a grassroots and general method is that in the place where this fitnah is manifest, to explain to the educated Muslims amongst them the actual truth and the reality of these fitnah-stirrers, and then they will make attempts to make the masses understand. Furthermore, it is necessary to hold gatherings specifically for this purpose and respected scholars who are aware of the reality of this fitnah and the fitnah-stirrers should deliver lectures in them. Furthermore, it is also required that in this respect one or two books are printed in which a sufficient and adequate rebuttal is given to the slanders of those impious fabricators against the elder and senior scholars of the religion, with complete verification and detail, politely and with simple language, upon reading which every literate seeker of truth will know the truth and can make others understand it. All praise to Allah, for this objective, there is absolutely no need to write or prepare a new book. As was mentioned above, the work that was done in the first period is sufficient and adequate for all times. The need is only that in this regard arrangements are made to reprint those important and beneficial books which were lost by the passage of time. Although such work is now very burdensome to my temperament, but for two to two and a half years those letters that have continued coming and those communications that have come to me from different parts of the country regarding this fitnah have forced this helpless one to at least commit to preparing the final answer this helpless one wrote with the name Ma‘rikat al-Qalam 21 years ago in response to Husam al-Haramayn of Mawlawi Ahmad Rida Khan Sahib, the subtitle or second title of which was Fayslah Kun Munazarah – which has been unavailable for around 20 years such that no copy was kept with me – for printing, by procuring a copy of it and taking a quick look over it and changing a few words. Besides this, around 19 or 20 years ago from today, I wrote several articles in response to the fitnah of those who charge Hazrat Shah Isma‘il Shahid (Allah have mercy on him) with disbelief by accusing him of revolting and impure slanders. Each article was like an independent treatise. All these articles were also lost. Now when the need was felt [to reprint them] and attempts were made, with the help of Allah Almighty, all these articles have been received and having revised them, I have prepared them [for printing] by arranging them in the form of a separate book. The slanders which the general mukaffirin of the Barelwi group repeat more frequently regarding our elders, and on which they base their takfir, with the grace of the Almighty, I hope these two treatises are enough for answering them. Their preparation has been delegated to a dear friend. The dear friend has intentions to see them printed. If he manages to do so, then it is hoped that if Allah wills, within two or three months, both treatises will be ready. Loved ones from different parts of the country who are worried by the disturbance of this fitnah of takfir from Bareli wrote letters to this helpless one and insisted that I again turn my attention to this direction. I ask them that in my present circumstances and activities, this helpless one feels that to save the general Muslims from the evil of this fitnah in this time, it is only binding on him to present to them these pages regarding his opinion, advice and experience, and to prepare those two books which he believes are necessary to publish, and for which he gives permission to those dear friends who wish to print it. Any more attention than this, which the loved ones insisted on in their letters, there is now absolutely no room for this in this helpless one’s times, activities and obligations. O Allah! Give us the ability to [do] what You love and what You are pleased with, and make our latter better than our former. Continue on part 13 Taken from: > Fayslah Kun Munazarah Husam al-Haramayn < by Mawlana Muhammad Manzur Nu‘mani (1905-1997)
Posted on: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 07:00:01 +0000
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