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**WomanBreast40356** · 02-29-2012, 05:59 AM

In my opinion, modernists are a branch of Salafism. Both have elements of rejecting classical scholarship and challenging long-established laws.

In fact, the movement of "Salafiyyah" originally (back in the 19th century) was born as a reformist movement; see the works of Rashir Rida, Muhammad Abduh, etc.
Al-Albani grow his interest in hadith research by reading "al-Manar" magazine edited by Muhammad Abduh, who was one of the founders of Salafiyyah, a neo-Mu'tazili freemason installed by the British as "Grand-Mufti" of al-Azhar, from where he will "legitimize" riba and so on.

That's from where modern-day Salafis take their hate for the four Madhahib and Tasawwuf, both of whom were criticized by the early proponents of the original reformist "Salafiyyah" as the "causes of immobility and stagnation" of the Ummah as compared to the "mighty west", which they looked up as a model. For them, restarting a "new Ijtihad" directly from the sources was the only way to forward the "Western-style progress" in the Islamic Ummah.

That's all history.

02-29-2012, 05:59 AM	#12
WomanBreast40356 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 426 Senior Member	In my opinion, modernists are a branch of Salafism. Both have elements of rejecting classical scholarship and challenging long-established laws. In fact, the movement of "Salafiyyah" originally (back in the 19th century) was born as a reformist movement; see the works of Rashir Rida, Muhammad Abduh, etc. Al-Albani grow his interest in hadith research by reading "al-Manar" magazine edited by Muhammad Abduh, who was one of the founders of Salafiyyah, a neo-Mu'tazili freemason installed by the British as "Grand-Mufti" of al-Azhar, from where he will "legitimize" riba and so on. That's from where modern-day Salafis take their hate for the four Madhahib and Tasawwuf, both of whom were criticized by the early proponents of the original reformist "Salafiyyah" as the "causes of immobility and stagnation" of the Ummah as compared to the "mighty west", which they looked up as a model. For them, restarting a "new Ijtihad" directly from the sources was the only way to forward the "Western-style progress" in the Islamic Ummah. That's all history.
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