The Study of Great Deviation and Pious Deceit
Plea to Return to the Perfected Islam of Ist Century Hijrah
By Brigadier Aftab Ahmad Khan (r)
Books by Fazlur Rehman
Fazlur Rahman Malik (Urdu: فضل الرحمان ملک) (September 21, 1919 – July 26, 1988) generally known as Fazlur Rahman was a well-known scholar of Islam.
Rahman was born in the Hazara District of the North West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) of British India (now Pakistan. . His father, Maulana Shihab al-Din, was a well-known scholar of the time who had studied at Deoband and had achieved the rank of alim, through his studies of Islamic law (fiqh, hadith, Qur'anic tafsir, logic, philosophy and other subjects).
Rahman studied Arabic at Punjab University, and went on to Oxford University where he wrote a dissertation on Ibn Sina. Afterwards, he began a teaching career, first at Durham University where he taught Persian and Islamic philosophy, and then at McGill University where he taught Islamic studies until 1961.
Dual Islam دو اسلام : ڈاکٹر غلام جیلانی برق
I enveloped myself in the study of Islam, the history of Muslims and the world history and devoted 14 years of my life in the search for answers. During this time, I completed eight years of the well-known Dars-e- Nizami of the “Islamic” Madrasahs. My initial impression of Islam:
- Belief in the Articles of Faith: Allah, the Last Day, the Angels, the Book and the Prophets (2:177). Add to this the 6th “Imam-made” article of Taqdeer or pre-destiny.
- Belief in the Five “Pillars” of Islam: Kalemah, Prayers, Fasting, Charity, Pilgrimage.
- Recite the Kalemah after each call to prayers with much reverence.
- Saying Allahu Allahu Allahu aloud when possible.
- Daily recital of the Qur’an without understanding the meaning.
- Khatm (“Wrap up” the reading of the Qur'an individually, and in congregations.)
- Pledging allegiance to a saint.
- Visiting graves and praying to the dead.
- Prostrate at the Khanqahs (sanctuaries).
- Consider dirty clothes as the heritage of prophets.
- Amulets and Vird Auraad (repeated invocations) to help solve all problems.
- Considering the Prophet (S) as omnipresent and knower of the unseen.
- Arranging feasts for the Mullah to ward off evil.
- Listening to Qawwali (The Sufi poetry sung with music and clapping) as a way of achieving proximity with Allah.
- Consider every non-Muslim as unclean, defiled.
- Have Iman in Imam Abu Hanifa's Fiqh (jurisprudence).
- Consider the Six Right Ones (6 compilations of Hadith) as Wahi (Revelation).
- Ignore advancements made by the modern sciences.
- Consider one who thinks and reflects a heretic.
- Recite the Kalemah, and Paradise is yours.
- All difficulties are overcome with du'a (praying) and not with proper action.
- Reciting words without understanding, engaging in useless rituals in order to attain Paradise filled with palaces and houris. .......