Yusuf al Qaradawi, par G.F. Haddad

Il y a quelques semaines de cela, nous avons publié un article (maintenant supprimé), implicitement élogieux à l'égard du sheykh al Qaradawi. Telle n'était, il est vrai, pas notre intention et nous entendions uniquement lui montrer le respect que le musulman lambda se doit d'avoir pour le savant.
Un lecteur, que nous remercions grandement, nous avait alors mis en garde. Et voici que je viens, par hasard, sur l'excellent forum Aslama.com, de tomber sur un lien vers cet article en anglais -hélas- du sheykh Haddad. 

Voici :

 

The media-savvy "West-appointed Pope of the Muslims" according to the Syrian scholars, "standard-bearer of corrupt scholarship and guide to deviancy" according to the Saudis, Azhar-trained Yusuf al-Qaradawi, although initially a Hanafi, doffed the strictures of the juridical Schools and adopted the high-exposure pulpits of satellite television (al-Jazira in Qatar), the Internet (islamonline.com, qaradawi.net), and mass print (150+ publications) to purvey, unique among televangelists, a blend of free-wheeling liberation theology, populist jihadism, and salafism shot through with colloquial Egyptian which keeps TV viewers East and West spellbound, boggled, delighted, and deluded at the same time.

Al-Qaradawi struck gold as the foremost vulgarizer of the "Do-It-Yourself Islam" initiated by the Egyptian-founded Ikhwan al-Muslimin, of which he is the most influential figure in our times, though ostensibly unaffiliated. The media scholar par excellence, he passes among the masses for a mujtahid and reformist thinker, although the silent majority of the Sunni Ulema refuse him any such title, a handful of them warning against his blatant distortions of the Law and irreligious verbiage, while the Wahhabis (al-`Udayni, Sulayman al-Kharashi, Muqbil al-Wadi`i, `Abd al-Karim Humayd, Salih al-Fawzan, and Abu Basir al-Tartusi) and the Habashis (Usama al-Sayyid and the anonymous al-Kawi li-Kabid al-Qaradawi) all wrote books against him.

This survey is based on the directives of our teachers as well as textual citations from some of the above-mentioned sources. It was prompted by two needs: the preparation of a second edition of Albani and His Friends and the need to warn about al-Qaradawi, particularly his non-madhhabi, anti-Ash`ari, yet supposedly non-Salafi book-imitators presently hard at work misleading the English-speaking Umma. It comprises the following sections:

I. Al-Qaradawi's blasphemies
II. His two greatest innovations: misappropriation of zakat and legalization of carrion
III. "Qutbian Qaradawi" versus "Accommodation Qaradawi"
IV. His praise of Sayyid Qutb, al-Afghani, `Abduh, and Rida
V. His praise of Hizb al-Tahrir
VI. He praises the Ikhwan and defends criminal jihadism
VII. Qaradawi's unrequited "salafism"
VIII. His assimilation of Ash`arism to "Aristotle's doctrine"
IX. His denial that consensus exists
X. Qaradawi's specious fiqh
XI. He permits income from the the sale of alcohol and pork
XII. He permits the consumption of carrion
XIII. He declares celibacy categorically forbidden for all
XIV. His weakness in Hadith
XV. His disparagement of the Ulema
XVI. His propensity for takfir of the Muslims
XVII. His over-the-top laxism toward non-Muslims
XVIII. His Qadarism
 

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