4 - The reformer says:

"The combats for sovereignty caused the splitting into the madhhabs, Muslims' parting into groups!"

Attribution of the splitting into the madhhabs to fights for sovereignty may be done by ignoramuses who do not know what the madhhabs are. It is to mix the religion with politics. The madhhabs resulted from the freedom of idea which Islam has endowed upon people. If in the separation of the madhhabs there is a purpose of ingratiating oneself with the occupant of a high post, this exalted post is certainly the Divine Post.