BismiAllah al-Rahman al-Rahim
Some notes on Wahhabism
1. THE HISTORY AND FUTURE PROSPECT OF OF WAHHABSIM
- calling Muslims kafirs, so as to justify war against them;
- destroying tombs, alluding that Muslims are “worshipping saints” – thereby barring love for great people of Islam in in the past;;
- disdain of the Prophet (salla Allah ‘aleihi wa sallam), alluding that Muslims are worshipping the Prophet – thereby erasing the element of Mercy in the Ummah;
- forbidding dhikr and other spiritual practices, construing that it is against the Sunna – thereby denying access to the spiritual dimension of Islam;
He and his followers sieged and destroyed the holy cities of Makka and Madina, until they were victorious and inserted their tribesmen, the Sa’udi tribal leaders from Najd, as rulers over the holy cities.
The original wahhabi movement was finally subdued by the Egyptian Sultan Muhammad ´Ali, at the orders of the ottoman caliph. This happened in the first years of the 19th century – and it would have been forgotten today, where it not revived again by Brittish intelligence at the beginning of the 20th century. Continue reading