ANTI-MADHABISM – A BRIDGE TO IRRELIGION pdf

Anti-Madhabism -A Bridge To Irreligion By Imaam Muhammed Zahid Al Kawtahri

ANTI-MADHABISM – A BRIDGE TO IRRELIGION

Islam has lost one of the Imams of the Muslims, who worked alone far from the trivialities of this life, devoting themselves to knowledge with the devotion of a believer in the worship of his Lord.

That is because he knew that knowledge is part of the acts of worship whereby the scholar seeks the pleasure of Allah and none besides Him.

 He does not seek thereby a lofty station on the earth, nor corruption, nor influence on account of distinction and reputation.

Nor does he seek any of the fleeting things of this world. He seeks only to bring victory to the truth, to please the True One.

That is Imam al-Kawthari. May Allah make his resting place pleasant, be pleased with him and make him pleased. I do not know of any scholar who has departed and left his position vacant these past years such as the position Imam al-Kawthari has left vacant. He was the Remnant of the Pious Predecessors, who did not take knowledge as a source of income, nor as a stepping-stone to a worldly goal.

He was Allah be well-pleased with him! a scholar of learning who personified the transmitted report, “The lamps are the inheritors of the Prophets.” He did not consider this inheritance a mere title of honor by which to pride himself and dominate others.

 Rather, he considered it a jihad to announce Islam, show its truths, and banish the illusions that conceal its essence. He would show it to people pristine and radiant so that