মাসিক আত-তাহরীক Consequence of Taqleed (blind following)
It makes our body trembled with fear when we think about the consequence of blind Taqleed and the custom-worshiping. One side there remain those of followed Imams or peers having possibility of mistakes with them and on the other side there remains the infallible Imam of the both world, Imam of Muttaqeen and Imamul Mursaleen the last Prophet Muhammad (sm), the messenger of Allah. One side there remain the traditional customs and rituals in the name of religion and on the other side remain the holy regulations of the last Prophet (sm). May Allah save us, if this is the practical situation, then which sky will give him shade, which earth will give him shelter and the Shafa‘at of which Prophet he will desire?
Being entangled with the illusive ties of Taqleed (blind following), people have turned their faces from impartial following of saheeh Hadeeth. Now it has been the main concern that how much great his Imam is! And how much big the party he belongs to!! As a result of excessiveness of Mazhabi Taqleed and for the conflict between Hanafis and Shafe‘iis and for the conspiracy of Shi‘aite Minister, the Abbasid caliphate of Baghdad had been destroyed in 656 A.H./1258 A.D. by the attack of Halaku Khan. Later on, during the reign of Bahri Mamlook Sultan, Ruknuddeen Baybaras (658-676 A.H./1260-1277 A.D.) of Egypt, there were appointed for the first time separate Qazi's for four Mazhabs at the Egyptian capital, which became a common practice for the whole Muslim world since 665 A.H. ... and any statement or decision, though it was proved by the Quran and saheeh Hadeeth would be forbidden if it is not in accordance with the rules of four Mazhabs. During the period of Burji Mamlook Sultan, Farj bin Barqooq (791-815 A.H.) in 801 A.H, in order to please the Muqallid Ulama and the people of them, four Muslallas for four Mazhabs were built separately at the four sides of the house of the holy Ka‘ba, the heart of the Muslim unity. In this way, due to bad effect of Taqleed, the division of the Muslim community took a permanent shape. In 1343 A.H, king Abdul Aziz A-le Sa‘ood the founder of the present Saudi rulling family demolished those four Musallas. As a result, all the Muslims at present have blessed with the good fortune to say their prayers unitedly according to the rule of the Quran and Hadeeth at the Musalla of Ibraheem (A) behind one Imam’ (Ph.D. thesis p.89). Falillahil Hamd (All praises for Allah).
As a worldly consequence of this religious Taqleed, in the name of various Mazhabs and Tareeqas, we have been divided into groups within our brethren. On the other hand, due to heterogeneous Taqleed we have, in the name of progress, been the blind followers of the Kufri (anti Islamic) doctrines introduced by the Jews, Christians and of the unIslamic coalitions as the Secularism, Nationalism, Capitalism, Democracy, Socialism etc.
In order to worship of the Nationalism based on language and territory, the united ‘Islamic Khilafat’ has been broken down now into fifty six feeble Muslim states. With the slogan of multiparty democracy, a country has been thrown into disunity and disorderliness from within and through this there has been manipulated the anti-islamic conspiracy of remaining a country in a permanently weakness. Due to divided environment of the Government and opposition politics, the fire of unpeace and disorder has been burning from Bangabhaban (President House) down to the huts and slums. Our national unity has been smashed. The united IslamicKhilafat of the Muslim world i.e. the political and economic strength of the Muslims has been destroyed.
Now the Muslim states have been turned into subservient of the Judio-Christian and anti-Islamic axis powers. In bygone days, Damascus, the capital of Umayyad Khilafat (41-132 A.H./661-750 A.D. = 90 yrs), Baghdad the capital of the Abbasid Khilafat (132-656 A.H./750-1258 A.D. = 509 yrs), Granada, the capital of Spanish Ummayad Khilafat (92-897 A.H./ 711-1492 A.D. = 781 yrs), Cordova, Seville the greatest seats of learning of the then world and ‘the wonder of the world’, now all are nothing but the subject of the history. Ghazni(Kabul) and Delhi, the centers of Muslim administration of India (351-1273 A.H./962-1857 A.D. = 895 yrs) are now the lost chapter of history. Lastly Istanbul or Constantinople, the capital of the Uthmani Khilafat (700-1342 A.H./1300-1924 A.D. = 624 yrs) and Turkey has turned today into a ‘Sickman of Europe’, a matter of jokes for the Jews and Christian world. Egypt, the country of the great general Salahuddin Ayubi (564-589 A.H./1169-1193 A.D. = 25 yrs) the conqueror of the Crusade, is now a friend of the Jewish state of Israeel.
Now the Muslims, the followers of Islam, a religion of peace, are burning with the flame of unhappiness. But why? Who is the responsible for it? Is it Islam or the Muslim? Medicine or the patient? Certainly the fault is not with the medicine. Because this medicine is severally examined. Moreover, the non-Muslims are more clamorous with the praises to the worthiness of Islam. Therefore, the fault lies with the patient who does not know the use of it. We the people who have kept medicine on the shelf and had counted the beads of rosary of medicine but did not take it, or did not learn the proper method of use or after knowing a little had surmised the rest or we have made it a ‘mixture’ by other ingredients according to what we please with.
As a matter of fact, this pathetic consequence of the Muslimsis due to their detachment from the teachings of the Quran and saheeh Hadeeth, the basic sources of Hidayat (righteous guidance of Allah). For this reason, the youths of modern times, being foiled to get proper solution of the age, from the Quran and saheeh Hadeeth are gradually being inclined to the materialistic philosophy. Seeing the various outward shapes of Mazhabs and Tareeqas within Islam, they are in doubt about the Islam itself. Seeing the glamour of Darghah, khanqah and Halqa-i-Zikr or hearing forceful slogans of Islam in procession and in the gorgeous stage of luxurious politics, they estimated Islam wrongly. They are considering it as a supporter of Capitalism and an instrument of exploitation. But is it the Islam that was left by the reliever and saviour of humanity the last Prophet (sm), Abu Bakr (R), Umar (R), Uthman (R) and Ali (R)? Surely it is not. To get it back we must shake off those foreign-imitated Isms and must turn back to the central essence of the teachings of the holy Quran and saheeh Hadeeth. But the question is: Do we want to get it cordially?
