BETWEEN OURSELVES

Al Laahu Rab-bu Muhammadin Salla 'Alaihi WA Sallama

The filth edition of the book Azaan and Durood Shareef is in your hands. The English translation of this book was first done by Maulana Shiraz Mansoor Qaadiri and published by Maulana Okarvi Academy Al-A'lami, South Africa, in 1988, and then again published and distributed in South Africa and in Mauritius by the Sunni Razvi Society, South Africa, in 1989. The Urdu text of the book has so far been thrice published in Pakistan. Distinguished and renowned writer, Saiyyid Ghulaam Khawajah, has again translated this book into English and it has been published by Maulana Okarvi Academy al-A'lami, South Africa.

In this book, the distinguished preacher of the world of Islaam and unequalled orator. Allamah Kaukab Nooranl Okarvi has presented a brief but very effective academic research work on the question of reciting Durood Shareef before and after Azaan. And the beauty of it lies in the fact that all arguments given here have been based on books written by those who call reciting Durood Shareef before and after Azaan as an innovation and forbid such recital. The publication of this book has, besides putting a stop to the fatwa-mongering of the opponents, provided comfort and happiness to all the Ahle-Sunnat-wa-Jamna'at. Al-Laah be praised that before and after Azaan and before Iqaamat (when the congregation stands up for Namaaz) Durood Shareef is recited in the Masaajld (Mosques) of the Ahle-Sunnat.

Our opponents say that the (bid'at) innovation of reciting Durood Shareef before and after Azaan in South Africa has been introduced by Allamah Kaukab Noorani Okarvi. But the fact is that Allamah Okarvi has only renewed a Prophetic tradition and this is undoubtedly a good deed done by him for which he will receive a great reward from Al-Laah Subhaanahu. Insha Al-Laah.

We pray that the Merciful Al-Laah may preserve Allamah Kaukab Noorani Okarvi in our midst for the establishment of the truth and for falsifying the falsehood, and he should thus continue to punish the wayward groups and to dispel the darkness of Wahaabiyat-Deobandiyat by the light of Sunnat Aameen.

South Africa.1991

Haashim Yoosuf Mansoor, Moosa Ibraaheem Qaadri,

Muhammad Bana Shafi'ee, Muhammad Qaasim Ashrafi.

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