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As a matter of fact, these modernist scholars with their shallow understanding of the Qur’an and Sunna and their rigidly blind following of Ibn Taymiyya are currently engaged in an all out effort to rob people of their practice of the Qur’an and Hadith in the most elaborately beautiful way outlined by the four schools ( Madhahib al-Arba’ah) viz the Hanafi, Shafi’i, Maliki and Hanbali maslaks.  So, it has become obligatory for the scholars of truth ( ‘Ulama-e-Haqq) to expose the evil of these peddlers of the abandonment of taqleed.


Ignorance and arrogance have become major hurdles for the anti-taqleed propagandists. As a result they refuse to leave their obtuse understanding of the Shari’ah and accept it as understood and practised by the four schools over the last 14 centuries. This document is therefore not directed to the votaries of the abandonment of taqleed. It is for the safety and strength of those who have the wonderful path of taqleed to follow.


This monograph is mostly a condensation of a lengthy treatise on Taqlid and Ijtihad by the reviver* of his time, Hakim al-Ummah, Mawlana ‘Ashraf ‘Ali Thanwi (rah). Hadrat named his book, “ Al Iqtisad fi’t Taqleed wa’l Ijtihad”. Because this compilation and translation is primarily a condensed form of Mawlana Thanwi’s book, we have omitted references to page numbers from the original work. Apart from Hakim al-Ummah’s work, some quotes  have also been taken from other reliable and authoritative works, references of which have been given in the footnotes. 


*Imam Abu Dawud has narrated a hadith that Allah will certainly, at the turn  of every century, raise for the upliftment of this Ummah, a person who will revive the teachings of the Deen (mujaddid).


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