Ahmad Jawdat Pasha, a statesman, and Ayyub Sabri Pasha d. Every Muslim knows that Allahu ta’ala alone is the One who gives life and takes life away, for He declares: “He alone gives and takes life,” in the 56 th ayat of the Surat Yunus, and, “Allahu ta’ala is the One who makes man dead at the time of his death,” in the 42 nd ayat of the Surat az-Zumar.Although they say they are Muslims, Wahhabis, also called Najdis, are one of the groups who have departed from the Ahl as-Sunnat. In the 64 th ayat of the Surat an-Nisa’, He says: “They will not be believers unless they make thee (the Prophet) judge (yuhakkimunaka) of what is in dispute between them.” The former ayat states that Allahu ta’ala is the only Real Hakim, and the latter states that man can be metaphorically referred to as a hakim. In the 57 th ayat of Surat al-Anam and in Surat Yusuf, He says: “The decision (hukm) is Allahu ta’ala’s alone,” that is, Allahu ta’ala is the only Decider (hakim). However, Allahu ta’ala declares in many ayats of Qur’an al-karim that He is the Real Maker of every act and that man is the majazi maker. Whenever somebody says that he did something, they call him a polytheist or a disbeliever though his expression is a majaz. To prove these ideas, he puts forth as documents the ayat al-karima: “Iyyaka nastain” (Only Thy help we ask) of the Surat al-Fatiha and the ayats expounding tawakkul.36 The book Al-Usul-ul-arba’a fi-terdid-il-wahhabiyya, at the end of its second part, says in Persian: The Wahhabis and other la-madhhabi people cannot comprehend the meanings of majaz37 and isti’ara’ (metaphor). For example, he who says, “Such and such medicine relieved the pain,” or “Allahu ta’ala accepted my prayers near the tomb of such and such a prophet or wali,” becomes a polytheist. The Wahhabi point of view is that he who says that anybody besides Allahu ta’ala did something becomes a polytheist, a disbeliever. He went so far as to call the Ahl as-Sunnat “disbelievers.” He said that he who visited the shrine of a prophet or of a wali and addressed him as “Ya Nabi-Allah!” (O Allah’s Prophet) or as, “Ya ‘Abd al-Qadir!” would become a polytheist (mushrik). He spoke ill of the ijtihads of the ‘ulama’ of Islam. But he proclaimed Wahhabism in 1150 (1737 A.D.). Muhammad’s father, ‘Abd al-Wahhab, who was a pious Muslim and a scholar of Medina, apprehended from Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab’s words that he would start a perverted movement and advised everybody not to talk with him.
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