7 - The reformer says:

 "False hadiths were made up. Everybody knows that there are many mawdu' hadiths."

Nobody can be so unjust as to speak ill of the knowledge of hadith which was based not on reason or experience but on relation and narration. I wonder how many hadiths the reformer knows to speak like that. Can he say a single hadith with its documentary references? He only knows the word mawdu' that he has heard by chance. The great scholars of Islam have written thousands of books not only on the knowledge of hadith but also on how to find out mawdu' hadiths among the sahih ones. If they had not written these books, the reformer would not even know the world mawdu'. The scholars of hadith very strictly forbad to say "a hadith" for a saying if it was not for certain that Rasulullah ('alaihi 's-salam) uttered it, no matter how good or useful it was. In fact, there have been people who attempted such a very dangerous lie as to make up hadiths. But Muslim scholars have worked without getting tired and bored, looked for such falsehoods, found them and discarded them from books. If it had not been for these continuous studies of Muslim scholars, could such religiously ignorant reformers ever distinguish one mawdu' hadith? Muslim scholars have accomplished such a delicate and difficult study of recognizing hundred thousands of hadiths together with their narrators and evaluating the soundness of each. As for the reformer, he confuses those who have made up hadiths with those who have found out and discarded the made-up hadiths, arouses suspicion among Muslims by talking ill of all of them and tries to shock the confidence in the Hadith. The harm caused by those who made up hadiths has not been greater than that caused by the clamors of reformers. By putting forth the harm of making up hadiths to attribute the fall of the Ottoman Empire to it, he slanders unjustly against Islam by implying that the real cause of the fall of the Ottoman Empire was Islam.