A
rejoinder to a series of
booklets entitled
"Johannesburg to Bareilley
(
DEOBANDI-ISM CAUGHT UP IN
ITS OWN WEB )
By
Allamah
Kaukab Noorani Okarvi Rahm.
Translated
by.
S.G. Khawajah
Published by:
Maulana Okarvi Academy Al
A'lami, South Africa
Dear readers! My
aim is not to indulge in hurtful saying or in speaking lies. May
Almighty Allah protect me from every wrong-doing! But I speak the
truth when I say that the hypocrites (Deobandi propagandists) say
and do things while propagating the Deen, which are most shameful
and distasteful. II is amazing that they would like wrong ideas to
be explained but they would not like to call a wrong as wrong.
Dear readers! All
men of wisdom, thought, intellect and consciousness know that
calling bad names is after all calling bad names. Howsoever much
you may try to explain them away, you cannot say that calling bad
names is wishing well. We, also, say to the propagandists of
Deoband that the controversy between us will continue to rage until
they accept the idolatrous and disgusting writings of their
stalwart ulama to be idolatrous and disgusting even according to
the verdict of their own ulama, and until they deny that such
writings are valid and laudable.
There is a
well-known anecdote. Some villagers went to a religious scholar and
asked him to inform them what they should do to purify the village
well in which a dog had drowned. The religious scholar told them to
draw a number of buckets of water from the well, and then the water
would be purified. The villagers went back and drew the prescribed
buckets of water but the water continued to be as foul-smelling.
Thereupon, they went back to the religious scholar and informed him
of the situation. The religious scholar inquired from them if they
had taken out the dead dog from the well or it was still there.
They said they had not taken the dog out of the well. The religious
scholar admonished them that until they took the dog out of the
well, the stink would continue to be there howsoever much water
they would draw. Therefore, they should first take out the dog from
the well, and then take out water (and he specified the number of
buckets to be taken out) and then they would see that the stink was
removed.
Dear readers!
Similar is the case with the Deobandi-Wahaabi propagandists. Unless
they end the real reason of the controversy, unless they deny the
rationality and eruditness of their erroneous and idolatrous
writings, the dispute will continue to the there, howsoever much
they may try to explain away things.
Along with this,
you should also realise that these people are in the habit of
speaking lies, giving false statements and hoodwinking people.
They, perhaps, think that the world is populated only by the deaf
and the blind. Let us hear about some examples of their lies and
decide for yourselves how great liars these people of Deoband are.
On page 2 of part
1 of "Johannesburg to Bareilly", it is written thus: "The ulama of
Deoband have nothing to do with Muhammad Ibne Abdul Wahaab Najdi
(Imam of the Wahabi faction). They have no concern with his
mission, nor he is their spiritual leader, nor did they ever meet
him. In fact, the ulama of Deoband belong to the
Ahl-e-Sunnat-Wa-Jama'at and owe allegiance to the Hanafi sect."
In this passage,
it has been sought to be proved that the ulama of Deoband are not
Wahabi, and that they have got nothing to do with Muhammad Ibne
Abdul Wahaab Najdi, the Imam of the Wahaabis. This has been
contradicted by the writings of the ulama of Deoband themselves, as
you will subsequently see.
The famous debater of Deoband, Muhammad Manzoor Nu'maani, has in
his book, "Sheikh Muhammad Bin Abdul Wahaab and the right-guided
ulama of India", published 10 years ago and endorsed by Sheikh
Muhammad Zakariya Kandhalvi and Qaari Muhammad Tayyab, sought to
prove that there was no ideological difference between Sheikh Abdul
Wahaab Najdi and the ulama of Deoband and the Najdi Wahaabi and
Deobandis were really one and the same. Here, I am not
criticising the book by Nu'maani Sahib. My aim is only to bring to
my readers the lies of the author of "Johannesburg to Bareilly" so
that readers may know how very fond of lies the author of
"Johannesburg to Bareilly" is. On the one hand, their ulama and
elders are trying their utmost to prove themselves to be Wahaabi,
but the author of "Johannesburg to Bareilly", while stationed in
South Africa, is for ever engaged in uttering lies.
Dear readers! Let
us examine such other writings of the stalwart ulama of Deoband.
"This
title (Wahabi) means a person who subscribes to, or is subservient,
to the creed of Ibne Abdul Wahaab". (Imdaad-ul-Fataawa), Page 233.
The
Imam of the Deobandis, Rasheed Ahmad Gangohi, says, "the followers
of Muhammad Ibne Wahaab Najdi are called Wahabi. He held excellent
beliefs and his creed was Hanbali. Although he was rather of harsh
temperament but he and his followers are good people." (Fataawa
Rasheediyah, Page 111, Vol. 1).
Dear readers! You
have just seen what the verdict of Gangohi Sahib is on Ibne Abdul
Wahab Najdi. Now see what the ulama of Deoband themselves have
written about Ibne Abdul Wahab Najdi, and, then, decide for
yourselves who amongst them spoke the truth and who uttered lies.
Al-Muhannad, the
book of beliefs of the ulama of Deoband, on page 12, contains the
following question and answer:
"Question number
12: Muhammad Ibne Abdul Wahaab held the view that shedding the
blood of Musalmaans and taking away their property and defiling
their honour, all these things were lawful. He also termed them
idolaters. He was insolent towards the elders. What is your view of
him? And do you (think calling the Ahle Qiblah as infidels is a
lawful act? Or do you think that he who does these things belongs
to a legitimate sect?
Answer: In our
view the same verdict applies to them as has been given by the
writer of Durr-e-Mukhtaar. And Khawarij are a band of people who
waged war against the Imam because they thought him to be guilty of
falsehood, that is, idolatry, which justified waging war. For this
reason they take the taking of our lives and our property and
making our women captives to be lawful. He further held that they
were rebels. He also held that they did not Describe them as
infidels because this was a matter of interpretation, though a
faulty one. And Allamah Shaami, in his marginal notes on the book,
has said, "Like it happened in our times when the followers of Ibne
Abdul Wahaab sallying forth from Najd overwhelmed Haramain
Shareefain. They described themselves as belonging to Hambali
creed, but it was their belief that only they were Musalmaans and
whoever was against their belief was an idolater and, so, they
justified the killing of the Ahle Sunnat and the ulama of the Ahle
Sunnat until Almighty Allah deprived them of their ascendancy."
In "Fataawa
Rasheediyah", it is stated that their (Najdis)
beliefs are excellent, while in "Al-Muhannad" it is said
that they (Najdis) believe that only they were Musalmaans and those
who held beliefs contrary to theirs were polytheists,
and since such people belonged to the
Ahl-e-Sunnat, therefore killing them was lawful.
From
this it can be derived that holding all Ahl-e-Sunnat to be
polytheists and killing them was lawful and permitted in the eyes
of Gangohi Sahib. He also says that the followers of (Ibne Abdul
Wahaab) are good men, while all other ulama of Deoband hold them to
be Kharijis and rebels. It, thus, becomes clear that Gangohi Sahib
believes that Kharijis and rebels are good men.
Also consider
this. Hussein Ahmad Sahib Tandvi Madni says: "Gentlemen' Muhammad
Ibne Abdul Wahaab appeared in the Najd in the 13th century A.H.,
and, because he harboured evil thoughts and held wrong beliefs, he
waged war on the Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jama'at, sought to force his evil
thoughts upon them and considered lawful seizing of their
properties as the spoils of war, and killing them, and considered
all these acts to bring blessings. He was harsh on the people of
the Haramain (Makkah and Madinah) in particular and on the people
of the Hijaaz in general. He used most foul language against the
pious men of the earlier generations. Because of the atrocities
committed by him on them, countless people had to flee the holy
cities of Makkah and Madinah, and many of them were martyred by his
troops. In short, he was a tyrant, a rebel and an altogether evil
person." (Ash-Shahaubus Saaqib, Page 42)
Gangohi Sahib says
that their beliefs are excellent and he and his followers are good
men, while Husain Ahmad Sahib Tandvi Madni says that his views were
evil and his beliefs were most wretched. He considered the killing
of Ahle-Sunnat as an act, which brought blessings, and
justified taking away of their properties as spoils of war and, as
such, lawful. He put the people of the Haramain and the Hijaaz to
great hardships until they were forced to flee. He was most
insolent towards the pious men of the earlier generations. He was
guilty of killing thousands of Musalmaans, and was tyrannical,
rebellious, blood-thirsty, and sinful.
Now, if Gangohi
Sahib is speaking the truth, then Husain Ahmad Sahib Tandvi Madni
is speaking the lie. Only one of two can be in the right. Now, a
decision about them rests on the followers of the two men.
Gangohi Sahib says that their (Najdis) beliefs are excellent.
How excellent can be seen in the writings of the Principal of
Deoband, Husain Ahmad Sahib Tandvi Madni, who has listed, serially,
examples of the beliefs of the Najdis in F his book, Ash Shahaubus
Saaqib! These are:
-
"Muhammad Ibne
Abdul Wahaab believed that people all over the world and
all Muslims were polytheists and infidels. (Page 44)
-
The Najdis
believed, and his followers still believe, that the lives
of Prophets (Alaihum-us Salaam) were limited to
the times during which they lived upon this earth.
Thereafter, in death, they and other faithfuls are equal.
(Page 45)
-
This group holds
that having a vision of the blessed Prophet (Salla
Allahu 'alayhi wa Sallam) and visits to his blessed
tomb are bad innovations and unlawful. He also holds as
unlawful even journeying in that direction for this
purpose. According to some of them, even journeying for the
sake of paying a visit to the blessed tomb is like
committing fornication. May Allah save us from such evil
thoughts! (Page 45)
-
The Wahaabis use
most insolent language in respect of Prophethood and the
person of the beloved Prophet (Salla Allahu 'alayhi wa
Sallam), and in their insolence, claim to be the
equals of the personality of the holy Prophet, and,
according to them, only a little benefit accrued from him
during the times he was preaching the Messages of Allah,
and no benefits flowed from him after his passing away. And
because they think so, they consider as unlawful praying
for Allah's forgiveness through his intercession. Their
elders also said that praying for Allah's forgiveness
through his intercession was unlawful. (May Allah save
us from having such thoughts)! But, perhaps, it may
be permissible to reproduce such thoughts, for merely
reproducing blaspheming words does not by itself constitute
blasphemy). They also said that the staff in a man's hand
was of greater advantage to him than the glorious
personality of the king of the universe (Salla Allahu
'alayhi wa Sallam), for with a staff in his hand one
can defend himself from a dog while the personality of the
'Pride of the Universe' (Salla Allahu 'alayhi wa Sallam)
cannot do even this much for him. (Page 47)
-
The Wahaabis are
against performing mystic rites and sophistic
practices-meditating, engaging in the remembrance of Allah
and thinking about Him, owing allegiance to spiritual
guides and the whole system of spiritual guides, and having
a mental rapport with the spiritual guides, believing in
the doctrine of annihilation and permanent life etc. etc In
their view, al' such things are of no consequence, bad
innovations and demeaning. (Page 59, Ash-Shahaubus Saaqib)
-
In Wahaabi
belief, following any particular Imam is considered to be
blasphemy against the Prophet, and they use wretched and
wicked words for the four Imams and their followers, and
thus they are alienated from the Ahl-e-Sunnat-Wa-Jama'at
and so the non-emulators of India belong to this wicked
group. While they claimed to be Hanbalee when they first
appeared on the scene, but in many matters they do not
follow Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal (Alaihir Rahmah)—(Page 62,
Ash-Shahaabus Saaqib).
-
Through verses
Ar-Rahmaanu 'Alal 'Arshis
Tawa etc, the
Wahaabis try to
prove that Allah
physically occupies
a throne and also
make out His
dimensions and,
therefore, His
bodily presence. -
(Page 24, Ash-Shahaabus-Saaqib)
-
The Wahaabis of
Arabia have
often been heard
to harshly
denounce the
expression, "As
Salaatu was
Salaamu Alaika
ya Rasoolal Laah"
(Peace and
salutation to
you, O Allah's
Messenger)",
and most
scathingly
condemn and
ridicule its
use, and hurl
most unbecoming
language against
the people of
the Haramain who
use such an
expression.—(Page
65, Ash-Shahaabus-Saaqib)
-
The wicked
Wahaabis harshly
denounce sending
repeatedly peace
and salutation
on the mercy to
the worlds, and
consider
reciting 'Dalaa'ilul
Khairuat', 'Qaseedah
Burdah' and 'Qassedah
Hamziya'h and
such like as
most detestable
and unwarranted.
They also
consider some
couplets of 'Qaseedah
Burdah' to be
downright
blasphemous, as
for example the
couplet: Ya
Ashrafal Khalqi
Maali Man Aloozu
Bihi Siwaaka
Inda Huloolil
Haadisil 'Amami
(O' the
best of
creations! I
have no one To
look up to in
perilous times
like these)
(Page 66, Ash
Shahaabus Saaqib)
-
Except for the
knowledge by him
of Allah's
commands, the
Wahaabis think
the personality
of the Last of
the Prophets (Alaihis
Salaatu w'as Salaam) to be devoid of all hidden and
true knowledge. (Page 62, Ash-Shahaabus Saaqib)
The Wahabis
consider the narration of the birth of the king of the
universe (Alaihis-Salaatu-w'as-Salaam) itself to
be a most reprehensible act and a very bad innovation".
(Page 67, Ash-Shahaabus Saaqib)
Dear readers' the above-mentioned eleven
beliefs held by Ibne Abdul Wahaab Najdi and his followers have been
listed by the Principal of Deoband, Husain Ahmad Sahib Tandvi
Madni, which in the sight of Gangohi Sahib are excellent beliefs.
It is, therefore, proved that most foul, most wicked and altogether
blasphemous beliefs are reckoned by him to be excellent ones and
the excellent and Islamic beliefs are, in his eyes, polytheistic
and innovative. What an amazing feat of perverted thinking!
Khirad Ka Naam
Junoon Rokh Diya Junoo 'Ka Khirad
Jo Chaahe Aap Ka Husne
Karishmah Saaz Kare
(You call
wisdom to be madness and madness to be wisdom.
Your miracle
making beauty may do whatever it wants).
On Page 45 of
Ashrafus Sawaanih, it is stated thus: "A story is narrated of the
times when Ashraf Ali Thanvi Sahib was a teacher at the Madrasah
Jaamiul-Uloom, Kanpur. Some women living in the neighbourhood of
the Madrasah brought some sweets so that the Qur'aan may be recited
and the reward so earned be conveyed. Students of the Madrasah did
not do so and ate up the sweets. This created quite a row. When
informed of the row, Thanvi Sahib came and told the people in a
loud voice, "Brethren! This place is populated by Wahabis. Don't
bring anything here for the sake of faatihah and niyaaz."
One Page 192 of
the biography of Janab Yoosuf Kandhalvi, it is stated that
'we are staunch Wahabis."
One of the elders
of the Deobandi Wahaabi propagandist group, Sheikh-ul-Hadees
Muhammad Zakariya Sahib, declares: "I am a more
staunch Wahabi than all of you."—(Biography of Maulana
Muhammad Yoosuf Kandhalvi, Page 193, authored by Muhammad Saani
Hasni and Manzoor Nu'maani).
(It will interest
my readers to know that, as they have already seen, the Principal
of Madrasah Deoband, Janab Husain Ahmad Tandvi Madni, has described
the Wahabis as a "band of evil and foul and filthy people" who are
also insolent, but Janab Ashraf Ali Thanvi and
Muhammad Zakariya and others say they are very proud of calling
themselves Wahabis. With this admission, the reality about
them will dawn upon people with greater clarity).
Thanvi Sahib, whom
the Deobandis regard as their Hakeem-ul-Ummat, in a letter to his
Imam, Rasheed Ahmad Gangohi Sahib, writes: "Although some ulama
here regard me as a Wahaabi and some ulama from outside also have
told people here not to be deceived by this man (Thanvi) for he is
a Wahabi, but it did not have any effect for I had been practically
co-operating with the public. But now that I intend not to
co-operate even in a practical sort of way, I should expect to face
some difficulty." Since Thanvi Sahib used to participate in Meelaad
meetings, people did not accept him as a Wahabi, but now that
Thanvi Sahib himself says that he would not be attending Meelaad
congregations it should be clear to everybody that "he was truly a
Wahabi although he had been hiding this fact." (Tazkiratur Rasheed,
Page 135).
Janab
Abdul Hasan Ali Nadvi in his book "Deeni Da'wat" (Invitation to
Religion) has mentioned an episode about Muhammad Ilyaas Sahib,
founder of the Tableeghi Jama'at. In 1938, he says, when he had
gone to the Hijaaz for the Hajj, he along with his delegation met
the Sultan of Najd in connection with the Tableeghi Jama'at.
Regarding
preparations for the meeting with the Sultan, he writes: "It was
resolved that first the aims and objects of the Jama'at should be
written down in Arabic, then it should be presented to the Sultan.
Maulana Ihtishaam-ul-Hasan and Abdullah Ibne Hasan, on their own,
met the Sheikh-ul-lslam and Sheikh Ibne Bulhead". "Deeni Da'wat"
(Invitation to Religion), Pages 97 and 98.
"After two weeks
(on 14th March, 1938), the Maulana (Muhammad Ilyaas) along with
Haaji Abdullah Dehlvi, Sheikhul Mutaw-witeen, Abdur Rahmaan Mazhar,
and Maulvi Ihtishaam-ul-Hasan went to meet the Sultan. The king
came down from his throne and received them with great honour and
seated the honoured guests from India near him. They then presented
their schedule for preaching. Upon this, the king lectured to them
most eruditely for forty minutes on the unity of Allah, on the
Book, and on the Prophetic traditions and on the need for following
the Shari'at. After this, he came down from his throne and with
much respect bade them goodbye. The next day, the Sultan wanted to
go to the Hijaaz and left for Riyadh. ("Deeni Da'wat", Page 98)
Having obtained
the testimonial of approval from the Sultan of Najd, now see how
they went about it. He writes: "Maulvi Ihtishamul Hasan prepared a
brief note on the objects of their preaching and presented it to
Shaikhul Islam and Chief Justice, Abdullah Bin
Hasan, who is of the progeny of Ibne Abdul Wahaab Najdi, and
the Maulana (Muhammad Ilyaas) and Maulvi Ihtisham Sahib themselves
went to see him. He honoured them greatly and
gave them much support in every matter and orally promised them
sympathy and help". ("Deeni Da'wat" Page 98)
Give your honest
thought to this. What was it that prevented them from, disclosing,
along with the entire proceedings, the Arabic text of the aims and
objects of the Tableeghi Jama'at prepared for presentation to the
Sultan of Najd? It is all two obvious. However much they may try to
hide facts but facts will be out, after all. And the fact is that
the aims and objects much lauded at the king's palace and the
promise of total support in disseminating ideas connected with the
"Invitation to Religion" were exactly the same as those which the
Najdis had raised as their battle cry and, as a consequence,
totally destroyed places of undying love and esteem and also the
eternal monuments of Islam.
It should be clear to even a
person of the meanest
intelligence that had the
aims and objects been even
slightly different from
those of the Najdi religion,
the Sheikhul Islam and Chief
Justice of the Najdi
government, who had the
blood of Ibne Abdul Wahaab
Najdi flowing in his veins,
would not have promised the
least bit of help and
support.
Look at
another proof of total
affinity in thought and
belief between the Wahabi
Najdi band and the Tableeghi
Jama'at and total mutual
co-operation between them
which is provided by an
incident which happened
during the times of Muhammad
Yoosuf Sahib, son and
successor of Janab Muhammad
Ilyaas. (You must
have heard about this
incident which occurred
during the times of Janab
Muhammad Ilyaas.) While
narrating the story of the
delegation of the
Tableeghi Jama'at which
had gone to Najd from Delhi
under the leadership of
Janab Abul Hasan Ali Nadvi,
the biographer of Janab
Muhammad Yoosuf writes (and
here you will read of the
deep relationship that
existed between leaders of
the Najdi
Government and the said
delegation). The story
continues:
"Excellent relations
were established with Sheikh
Umar Bin Al-Hasan, who is of
the progeny of Sheikh
Muhammad Ibne Abdul Wahaab
Najdi, and with Sheikh Abdul
Laah Ibnul Hasan, Chief
Justice and Sheikh-ul-Islam
of the Saudi kingdom and
head of the department of
dos and don'ts (Amar Bil
Ma'roof wa Nahee Anil Munkar)
who had very close relation
ship with the crown prince
of the kingdom, and was his
special aid. Because of
their understanding the
situation fully, those who
tried to create doubts about
the (Tableeghi) Jama'at
dismally failed in such
attempts. (Biography
of Maulana Muhammad Yoosuf,
Page 414)
Here is another clear proof
of the ideological affinity
between the two. He writes:
"We also met the elder
brother of Sheikh Umar Bin
Al-Hasan, Sheikh Abdul Laah
Ibnul Hasan (with whom
Maulana Ilyaas had entered
into an agreement) and he
treated us with much
kindness. Some people tried
to give the impression that
the (Tableeghi) Jama'at
was a band with "wrong
beliefs" and they conveyed
this complaint to the
ulama. Due to our
contact with the ulama and
the influential people,
those complainants were
cold-shouldered".- (Sawaanih
Maulana Muhammad Yoosuf,
Page 414)
There is no need for it to
be explained how these
People would have pleaded
their innocence of holding
wrong beliefs before the
Qaazis and the
ulama and officials of
Najd. The nature of a
religious mind is such that even a man holding wrong beliefs does
not consider anyone to be holding right beliefs until he is proved
to be of his persuasion. From this, the Point becomes clearer still
that the elite of the Najd already knew that these people
did not hold wrong beliefs, they rather held similar views, and
that is why [hose who complained about them being people with wrong
beliefs could not succeed.
You would
have, by now, seen proofs of
the fact that the Deobandi
propagandists are, in fact,
Wahabis.
These proofs have been
provided by their own pens.
