So how do you expect any sensible Muslim to accept this and...

So how do you expect any sensible Muslim to accept this and reject the other without research and analysis?" He said, "You can take what you like from each creed, because all of them are Islamic creeds, and all of them came from the Messenger of Allah." I said I am afraid that I may become one of those about whom Allah said: "Have you then considered him who takes his low desire for his god and Allah has made him err having knowledge and has set a seal upon his ear and his heart and put a covering upon his eye.

Who can then guide him after Allah? Will you not then be mindful?" (Holy Qur'an 45:23). Sir, I do not think that all the four lslamic religious schools (Madhahib) are correct, as long as one of them allows something while the other forbids it; and it does not seem logical for one thing to be allowed and forbidden simultaneously.

The Messenger of Allah (saw) did not question the rules of the Holy Qur'an because they are revelation: “And if it were from any other than Allah, they would have found in it many a discrepancy.” (Holy Qur'an 4:82). Because of the vast differences between the four religious Islamic schools, they cannot be from Allah or from His Messenger, for the Messenger did not contradict the Holy Qur'an.

When the scholarly Shaykh found my argument logical and sound, he said, "I advise you, for the sake of Allah, that no matter how doubtful you may be, do not doubt the rightly guided caliphs, because they are the four pillars of Islam, if one of them collapses, the whole building will collapse." I said, "God forbid Sir, but what about the Messenger of Allah if those people were the pillars of Islam?" He said, "The Messenger of Allah is that building He is the whole of Islam." I smiled when I heard his analysis, and said, "I ask Allah for forgiveness, yet again!

Sir, you are saying, indirectly, that the Messenger of Allah (saw) would not be able to stand without the support of those four, whereas Allah, the Most High, says: "He it is Who sent His messenger with guidance and a true religion that He may make it prevail over all the religions; and Allah is enough for a witness." (Holy Qur'an 48:28) He sent Muhammad with the Message and did not involve any of the other four, or anybody else, and Allah said with regard to this: "We have sent among you a messenger from among you who recites to you Our communications and purifies you and teaches you the Book and the wisdom and teaches you that which you did not know." (Holy Qur'an 2:151).