Publishing a List of Agreed Rulings

Question

Between the Barelvis and the Deobandis agreement is found on many issues — some forty innovations (bid‘a) — and this becomes evident on examining the “Fatawa A‘la Hazrat”. But who nowadays would purchase such books? It is observed that the purchase of religious books has greatly declined these days.

Answer

A number of such pamphlets have already been published, in which the issues that are the same for both sides are set out; and where the disagreement is a subsidiary (far‘i) one, this measure is useful. However, Ahmad Raza Khan writes openly in his own books about his disagreement with the Deobandi scholars as a fundamental (usuli)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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