چکیده:
Ibn Abd al-Wahhab has presented arguments for the takfir (excommunication) of Muslims. In this article, after stating Ibn Abd al-Wahhab's arguments, the existing contradictions within them are described and ultimately proven, showing that despite the human and financial costs to Islam, these arguments suffer from the most egregious flaw: contradiction. These contradictions have been proven under three different headings (1. Muqallid or Mujtahid; 2. The permissibility of seeking assistance from a creature in what they are capable of; 3. Consensus-based or ijtihad-based takfir). The meaning of contradiction here is that Muhammad bin Abd al-Wahhab has essentially fallen into contradiction regarding his own beliefs.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Ibn Mutlaq, and others among the scholars whom they call "the polytheists of our time!!" 1 Taking these two premises into account (firstly, Ibn Abd al-Wahhab had a jurisprudential rather than a theological view of the subject; and secondly, the issue that according to Wahhabi belief causes polytheism was not a matter of consensus among Islamic schools of thought, but rather this jurisprudential ruling is an ijtihadi (interpretative) ruling based on ijtihadi foundations), our question to Ibn Abd al-Wahhab is: you have repeatedly said that I am not a mujtahid but a muqallid (follower), and you considered claiming ijtihad to be a slander against yourself, as you repeatedly mentioned this in your letters using various expressions: "وحتّی من البهتان الذی أشاع الأعداء: أنی أدعی الاجتهاد ولا أتبع الأئمة؛ 2 one of the slanders that enemies have cast upon me is that I do not follow the Imams and that I claim ijtihad"; if these inferences are not ijtihad, then what is ijtihad?
Has Ibn Abd al-Wahhab considered the worship of the Prophet to be permissible and has he associated the Messenger of Allah, Moses, Gabriel, and others with God in seeking aid, such that in this case, according to his own principle, he is a polytheist and a disbeliever; just as he confesses that whoever uses these acts of worship for other than God is a polytheist and a disbeliever: "من صرف منها شیئاً لغیر الله تعالی فهو مشرک کافر وإن صلی وصام وحج وزعم أنه مسلم" 3 .
1. It contradicts the apparent meaning of the expressions and explicit statements: As previously mentioned, Ibn Abd al-Wahhab has applied the title of worship to pure istighatha in many instances and has stated that istighatha itself is among the exclusives of God, and no one else has the capacity to be sought for aid.
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