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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Wahhabism and Its Refutation [The Main Part] The following is translated, for the most part, from the Pasha's book: Wahhabism was established by Muhammad ibn, Abd al-Wahhab. He was born in Huraimila in the Najd in 1111 (1699) and died in 1206 (1791). Formerly, he had been to Basra, Baghdad, Iran, India and Damascus with the view of travelling and trading, where he found the vicious books written by Ahmad Ibn Taimiyya of Harran [661-728 (1263-1328), d.

in Damascus], the contents of which were incompatible with the Ahl al-Sunna. Being very cunning and talkative, he became known as ash-Shaikh an-Najdi. In order to increase his fame, he attended the lectures of Hanbali 'ulama' in Medina and later in Damascus and wrote many books when he returned to the Najd. His book Kitab at-tawhid (Meccan scholars wrote very beautiful answers to Kitab at-tawhid and refuted it with sound documents in 1221.

The collection of their refutations, titled Saif al-Jabbar which was later printed in Pakistan, was reproduced by Isik Kitabevi in Istanbul in 1395 [19751) was annotated by his grandson, Abd ar-Rahman, and was interpolated and published in Egypt with the title Fath al-majid by a Wahhabi called Muhammad Hamid.

[In 1970, preparing refutations to the corrupt writings in it, I published them in my book, “Advice for the Wahhabi.” Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab's ideas deceived the villagers, the inhabitants of Dar'iyya and their chief, Muhammad ibn Sa'ud. The number of those who accepted his ideas, which he called Wahhabism, increased and he imposed himself as the qadi and Muhammad ibn Sa'ud as the amir (ruler). He declared it as a law that only their descendants should succeed them.

Muhammad's father, 'Abd al-Wahhab, who was a good [Sunni] Moslem, and the 'ulama' in Medina understood from Muhammad's words that he would start a heretical movement and advised everybody not to talk with him. But he proclaimed Wahhabism in 1150 (1737). To deceive the ignorant and lead them astray, he spoke ill of the ijtihads of the 'ulama' of Islam. He went so far as to call the Ahl as-Sunna "kafir".

He said that he who visited the shrine of a prophet or of a wali and addressed him as "Ya Nabi Allah!" (O Allah's Prophet) or as, e.g. "Ya 'Abd al-Qadir!" would become a polytheist (mushrik). In the view of the Wahhabi, he who says that anybody besides Allah did something becomes a polytheist, a kafir.