Dr. Hassan al-Turabi Exposed

 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

يا نبي سلام عليك

In the Name of Allah, the Rahman, the Merciful

Peace be upon you, O Prophet

The country of Sudan has historically and currently faces much difficulty. Initially a homeland for mainstream Sunni Islam, predominantly following the Maliki school of jurisprudence and the Qadiri Sufi order, it was plunged into a series of crises beginning with the Mahdist uprising of the false Mahdi, Muhammad Ahmad bin Abdullah bin Fahal (d. 1885). Though this Mahdist uprising ultimately failed, the Mahdist movement continued in the form of the Ansar and its political wing, the Ummah Party.

Subsequent to the Mahdist tribulation, the Muslim Brotherhood and its ideas were introduced to the Sudan. Thereafter arose the heretic Mahmoud Taha (1909-1985) who was executed for his apostasy.

Apparently, Hassan al-Turabi (1932-2016) played a role in engineering the elimination of Mahmoud Taha in 1985, while having stolen some of his reformist and “progressive” ideas.

Dr. Hassan al-Turabi

In his interview with Milton Viorst, Hassan al-Turabi said, “I personally have views that run against all the orthodox schools of law on the status of women, on the court testimony of non-Muslims, on the law of apostasy. Some people say that I have been influenced by the West and that I border on apostasy myself. But I don’t accept the condemnation of Salman Rushdie. If a Muslim wakes up in the morning and says he doesn’t believe any more, that’s his business.” (Sudan’s Islamic Experiment, Foreign Affairs, vol.74, no.3, May-June 1995, p.53)

“Things like dress, for example, there are moral injunctions of how women and men should dress, but that is not part of the law.” (Ibid, p.54)

Considering his background in the so-called Muslim Brotherhood, or Ikhwan al-Muslimin, Dr. Hassan al-Turabi’s “progressive” views are comparable to Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s and other modernists and reformists who preceded them, like Muhammad Abduh and Mahmud Shaltut.

The Muslim Brotherhood is wrongly characterized in the media as some sort of traditionalist or fundamentalist Islamic movement, when in reality is a vehicle for the modernism and reformism. At any rate, Dr. Hassan al-Turabi broke with the Muslim Brotherhood and formed his own party called the National Islamic Front (NIF).

Among the scandalous views of Hassan al-Turabi was the recognition of marriages between Muslim women and non-Muslim men, allowing women to lead the Salah for men as their imam, that Jesus, peace be upon him, has already died and will not descend from Heaven in the future.