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CREATING A BAATIL DISPUTE

It is our misfortune that we had it imposed on us to read a spiritually nauseous essay captioned: WHAT IS THE SHAR`I RULING ON WOMEN CUTTING THEIR HAIR? This essay of baatil (falsehood) is the writing of a maulana turned shaykh, Taha Karaan of Cape Town , who deemed it proper to set himself up as a ‘mujtahid'. He thus cast off all vestiges of respect and shame. He achieved this ignoble feat in his miserable and abortive attempt to refute the fourteen century Shar`i prohibition on women cutting their hair. He subtly labours in the hash he has written to set himself up on a superior plane than that occupied by the Aimmah-e-Mujtahideen, Fuqaha and Muhadditheen of the Khairul Quroon era (the first three generations after Rasulullah - sallallahu alayhi wasallam). With his shallow intelligence, defective knowledge and oblique vision he deceives himself into believing that he possesses the qualities and the qualifications to refute the sacred rulings which the Aimmah-e-Mujtahideen and the other illustrious authorities of the Shariah have structured on the immutable basis of the Qur`aan and Sunnah—rulings which have been reliably, authentically and authoritatively transmitted down the long corridor of Islam's fourteen century history.

 

DROWNED

Drowned in his dreams of self-deception, this plastic ‘mujtahid' constituted of recycled cheap plastic, has presented his utterly baseless, misleading and deceptive essay to deceive modernists, the unwary and the ignorant. He has stupidly made assertions and assumptions which are entirely bereft of Shar`i substance. His mental gymnastics are so palpably incoherent and untenable that every Muslim, including laymen, who have some understanding of Islam can discern the deviation in which this plastic ‘mujtahid' of this belated era has become entrapped. He has now embarked on the activity of shaitaan to entrap unwary and modernist Muslims into his ideas of baatil and dhalaal .

 

About such “scholars and imaams” Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said:

“I fear for my Ummah such imaams who will mislead (them).”

 

BLINDED

When a supposed Aalim who has been schooled initially, i.e. prior to his recyclement in Egypt, in an august Institution of the Sunnah such as Daarul Uloom Deoband, has failed to understand that no man, regardless of what heights he may achieve in the academic and spiritual realms, right until the Day of Qiyaamah, can ever attain the lofty pedestals of Ilm, Taqwa and Ijtihaad which Allah Ta`ala has bestowed to that illustrious Band of Fuqaha, the Aimmah-e-Mujtahideen of the Khairul Quroon era—those Men of Islam who were specially created by Allah Ta`ala for the stupendous and glorious task of codifying and systemizing the Shariah, then this should be ample and loud testimony for his spiritual blindness and deviation—far, very far from Seeratul Mustaqeem and the Path of the Sunnah.

 

PUNY

Taha Karaan, the recycled plastic ‘mujtahid' on account of his total failure to see how puny he is, has with audacity sought in his essay to refute, reinterpret and modernize the Shariah by summarily rejecting the rulings of thousands of authorities of the Shariah—Rulings which have come down from the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu anhum) and in which there has been no dispute for the past fourteen hundred years.

 

The dispute on the issue of women cutting their hair, has been licked by the maulana-shaykh from the writings and influences of suit and tie wearing modernist shaykhs of the recycling plant in Cairo . He therefore suffers no pangs of conscience when he presents as Shar`i proof the views of modernist so-called muftis who hold no rank whatsoever in the firmament of Shar`i Uloom.

 

THE NEED

If it was not for the danger of unwary Muslims going astray by the concoctions presented by a man who has sought to project his image by advertising that he is “an Aalim from Dar al-Uloom Deoband” —an Institution with which we are inextricably associated by virtue of it being the Bastion of whatever Deeni treasures we possess, we would have dismissed his essay as just one more stupid attempt in emulation of modernist juhhaal (ignoramuses)who appear every now and again with the slogan of reinterpretation of the Shariah. But in view of the fact that he is operating from behind the Daarul Uloom Deoband screen, it has devolved on us as part of our obligation of Amr Bil Ma'roof Nahy Anil Munkar, to respond to his stupid arguments which lack any Shar'i basis. Insha'Allah, we shall show in this treatise how he has floundered; how he is confused; how he attempts to confuse; how he has rejected Islam's Ijma' (Consensus); how he has cast overboard all the principles of the Shariah in his insane attempt to promote the modernist, kuffaar idea of the permissibility of women cutting their hair.

 

HIS FAILURE

The plastic or recycled plastic ‘mujtahid' has miserably failed to understand how the principles of Fiqh and Hadith operate. While he makes a smattering of a reference to some Hadith principles, it is abundantly clear that he has no proper understanding of the Usool (principles) of Hadith nor of Usool of Fiqh. This is the precise reason for his blundering and audacious trumpeting of stupid conclusions based on incorrect and fallacious premises.

 

His failure to understand his own academic limitations and the boundless parameters of the vast Knowledge Allah Ta'ala had bestowed to the Aimmah-e-Mujtahideen, has impelled him to present a downright stupid “critical analysis” of the fourteen century Ijma ' (Consensus) of the Ummah —an Ijma' which emanated from the era of the Sahaabah —the Ijma' on the prohibition of women cutting their hair.

 

An Aalim of the Deen should at least have that degree of baseerat (spiritual perception) and academic understanding that it borders on the confines of kufr to “critically” analyse with a view for refutation, teachings and practices which have been in force in Islam and adhered to by the Ummah from the time of Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam). When a supposed Aalim fails in this respect, then his dhalaal (deviation) and his status as a mudhil (one who leads astray others) are conspicuous. About such deviates, Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said:

 

“ Verily, I fear for my Ummah such aimmah (leaders/imaams who are mudhilleen (those who lead astray the servants of Allah ).”

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