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Harun Yahya, the deviant.

By Faizal Riza

In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Merciful.

Adnan Oktar, also known by his pen name Harun Yahya, is a well known author. He is particularly well known for his stern opposition to Darwinism and the evolution theory. There is no doubt that the Quran clearly tells us that humans were created, and that we did not evolve from apes. “O mankind! Be dutiful to your Lord, Who created you from a single person (Adam), and from him (Adam) He created his wife (Hawwa (Eve)), and from them both He created many men and women” (Quran 4:1).

However, along with producing many ‘beneficial’ works, Harun Yahya has shown that he has seriously deviated in the fundamental creed of Islam. In his book ‘The Mahdi is a descendent of the Prophet Abraham” (attached) on pages 215-217 he boldly goes on to suggest that Prophet Mohammed (Sallallaahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) was not the last messenger, and that Imam Mahdi will come as a messenger after him. May Allah protect us from such a deviant belief. A person who does not believe Prophet Mohammed (Sallallaahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) to be the last Prophet and Messenger of Allah has left the fold of Islam and has become a murtadd (renegade). If he calls himself a Muslim without giving up such deviant beliefs, then he becomes a zindeeq. The injunctions of a zindeeq are harsher than that of other murtadds. It is not permissible to have any dealings with a zindeeq, not even buying and selling. (See: Ahsanul Fataawa vol. 6 pg. 388)

The fundamental Islamic creed that Prophet Mohammed (Sallallaahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) is the last prophet and messenger of Allah, and that no other prophets or messengers will come after him, is one that is established from the Quran, the ahaadith, and the consensus of the Muslim ummah. Mufti Shafee (Rahmatullahi Alaih) writes in his Ma’ariful Quran:

“That is why, right from the days of the noble companions (R.A.) uptill today, all the schools of Muslim Ummah are unanimous on the belief that there cannot be any kind of Nabi (Prophet) or Rasool (Messenger) after the Holy Prophet (Sallallaahu Alahi Wa Sallam) and whoever claims to be so is a liar and denier of the Quran and is a disbeliever. The first general consensus of the noble companions (R.A.) had evolved on this very issue as a result of which a holy war (jihad) was fought with Musaylimah, the liar, the false claimant of prophethood, during the period of the first Khalifah Sayyidina Abu Bakr (R.A.), in which he (Musaylimah) and his followers were killed.” (Ma’ariful Quran vol. 7 pg. 177-178)

In the tafseer of the verse, “Muhammad is not a father of any one of your men, but he is a messenger of Allah and the last of the prophets. And Allah is Knowledgeable of everything.” (Quran 33:40), the renowned scholar, Ibn Kathir (Rahmatullahi Alaih), writes:

فهذه الآية نص في أنه لا نبي بعده، وإذا كان لا نبي بعده فلا رسول بعده بطريق الأولى والأحرى؛ لأن مقام الرسالة أخص من مقام النبوة، فإن كل رسول نبي، ولا ينعكس. وبذلك وردت الأحاديث المتواترة عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم من حديث جماعة من الصحابة

“This verse is the unambiguous proof of the belief that there would be no Nabi (Prophet) after the Holy Prophet (Sallallaahu Alahi Wa Sallam) and since there would be no Nabi (Prophet), there is no question of there being any Rasool (Messenger) after him because Nabi is a general term and Rasool is particular. And this is the belief which is evidenced by mutawatir ahaadith which have reached us through the reports of a very large number of the Noble Companions” (Tafseer Ibn Kathir pg. 1504)

After carefully studying the aforementioned pages of the book of Harun Yahya, one would have to have serious doubts about the integrity and intention of the author. It would appear that not only does the author have deviant beliefs, but that he intends to cunningly indoctrinate others with them too. He has boldly and daringly gone against the consensus of the entire Muslim ummah in the explanation of the Quranic verses quoted in the aforementioned pages. Every single tafseer book states that the ‘Ahmad’ referred to in “… and giving the good news of an Apostle who will come after me, his name being Ahmad” (Quran 61:6) is Prophet Mohammed (Sallallaahu Alaihi Wa Sallam). Numerous vigorously authentic ahaadith affirm that Ahmad is one of the names of Prophet Mohammad (Sallallaahu Alaihi Wa Sallam). Nonetheless, turning a blind eye to all that, Harun Yahya insists that it refers to Imam Mahdi. (May Allah protect us).

Harun Yahya’s persistence in rejecting a fundamental creed of Islam, his ignoring the clear-cut teachings of the Quran and the hadith, his turning a blind eye to the consensus of the sahabah, the mufassireen, the muhaditheen, the fuqahaa, and the entire Muslim ummah proves that it is not the truth that he wants to believe and propagate.

I would, therefore, advise all the Muslims to be extremely careful in regards to the material produced by Harun Yahya, because carefully hidden in his apparently eloquent writing may well be poison, like the poison in the aforementioned book. And this type of poison not only destroys ones life in this mundane, temporary world, it also destroys ones eternal life, that of the hereafter.

May Allah, the Almighty, through His grace bestow upon us the understanding of deen and may He keep us steadfast on the straight path, the path of His chosen servants. Ameen.

Faizal Riza,

(M.A. Islamic Sciences and Arabic, Wafaqul Madaris Al-Arabiyah, Pakistan; teacher of Islamic sciences and head of Islamic studies department at Darul Ulum College, Victoria, Australia)

2/08/2009


P.S: The book of Harun Yahya “The Mahdi is a descendent of the Prophet Abraham” can be downloaded from the following link:
http://us1.harunyahya.com/Detail/T/E...CE_BE_UPON_HIM)