12 - The reformer says:

"There is no need to limit the number of madhhabs in four. If Muslims remain packed together within the limits of four madhhabs, no improvement will be possible. First of all, man's reason should be freed from being a slave of the religion. Reason is an unlimited blessing given by Allah. It is necessary to get out of four madhhabs and to give freedom to reason." And Jalal Nuri, another reformer, writes in his book Tarikh-i Tedenniyyat, "

'The gate of ijtihad has been closed,' they say. Nonsense! The Ottomans remained fastened upon wrong, coarse laws. On the other end of the world, social conditions had already improved. The Ottomans did not follow them. They remained behind."

The standards of living have changed, and science and arts have improved, but from which inventions have the rules of Islam prevented them, so that reformers direct such unpleasant allusions as "coarse laws" to them? Does Islam say, "Don't construct roads, don't run trains, don't build ships, leave your minerals under earth or sell the right of exploiting them to communists or capitalists, don't do trade with disbelievers. Machinery, techniques, planes, electricity and radio are the inventions of disbelievers; don't learn them. Don't earn money. Kill each other in football games?" No! Islam emphatically commands -as much as it considered morals and virtues- to work in arts, sciences and to search and learn what the disbelievers have invented. This will be explained more detailedly in the following pages.