Khilafat and Mujaddidiyyat — Page 5
5 these laws should be presented. No doubt, there are a few old laws in the world which were promulgated by some nations and are pursued by Europe even today, yet they are devoid of that basic beauty and fundamental perfection that is found in Islamic jurisprudence. Religions According to Human Nature It was Islam alone that turned the comprehensive wisdom and thinking of man towards the requirements of human nature. So the Islamic Jurists have done a lot and the four Imams (of Jurisprudence) have worked hard. They suffered great hardship for mankind and provided it with fine Fiqah (Jurisprudence) and law. Notwithstanding all this, the Muslim Ummat divided, into four divergent groups: the followers of Fiqah Hanafi (the jurisprudence of Imam Abu Haneefah), the followers of Fiqah Shafi’ee (The Jurisprudence of Imam Shafiee), the followers of Fiqah Malikee (the jurisprudence of Imam Malik), and the followers of Fiqah Hanbali (the jurisprudence of Imam Ahmed Bin Hanbal). Then, there are internal differences in each of these schools of thought. Hence, it is the same thing to say that there had been diffusion in the unity or unity in the diffusion. We cannot say that there was a total diffusion which shattered the Muslim Ummat into pieces. They were broken into pieces yet they were interlinked.