Their Ulema — Page 39
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 39 ] leaders will issue fat wa s without any knowledge. They will themselves be misguided and will lead others astray. ( Mishk a t, Kit a b ul-‘Ilm ) One does not have to go too far in the past to find out that, indeed, the ulema are ignorant, and they issue religious fat aw a without any understanding. Only a few days ago, a statement by the President of Pakistan was published in the newspaper [Daily] Jang, (Lahore) of January 31, 1985. According to this statement, there are about 50,000 imams of mosques in Pakistan, and 36,000 of them are only half- learned, and another 11,000 are absolutely illiterate. People often forget that just as a half-learned doctor is dangerous to one’s body, a half-learned maula vi is dangerous to one’s soul. The Holy Prophet Muhammad sa had warned about this danger 1400 years ago. Causes of a Nation’s Ruin Knowledge does not disappear from the world as if Allah had suddenly snatched it away. It happens when scholarly people pass away and the illiterate and ignorant take their place. They, in their ignorance, pass religious fatw a s and spread discord in the world. The Zam in d a r newspaper (Lahore), published on August 14, 1915 acknowledges this fact in the following: Wh e n G o d ’s d e c r e e t o o b l i t e r a t e a n a t i o n approaches [What happens? No colonial power