Hakikat Kitabevi Publications No: 10 answer to an enemy of islam

“istidrâj.” Bâyazîd al-Bistâmî saw a person who
was known as a Walî spit toward the qibla and said, “This man has
ignored one of the good manners of Rasûlullah (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi
wa sallam). [So] he cannot be a Walî.”
Bâyazîd al-Bistâmî said, “Even if a person displays karâmât,
such as walking on water, going to distant places in a moment and
flying in the air, do not consider him to be a Walî unless he obeys
Islam!” For obeying Islam, it is necessary to follow one of the four
madhhabs. It has been declared by consensus that it is not
permissible for non-mujtahids to follow as-Sahâbat al-kirâm.
[Because, their madhhabs are not known.] Ijtihâd will be
employable till the end of the world. [However, few scholars fulfil
the conditions for being able to employ ijtihâd. Further, there is no
need for them to employ new ijtihâds. A solution for every matter
that will arise till the end of the world exists in one of the four
madhhabs.] The ’ibâda Allâhu ta’âlâ likes best is to do the fard.
The valuable ones of the suppererogatory ’ibâdât are those that
– 116 –

---

are done alongside the fards, which exist in them and which
supplement them.
Muhammad ibn Fadl al-Balkhî (d. 319/931) said, “Four factors
cause the nûrs (spiritual lights) of Islam to leave hearts and hearts
to darken: not to practise one’s knowledge; to practise without
knowing; not to learn what one does not know; to impede others’
learning.” Some people learn in order to be known as men of
knowledge and to obtain property and posts. [They use being men
with religious posts as a means for living and for politics.] They do
not learn for practising. They are men of religion in name. The way
they follow is the way of the ignorant. Saying that Allâhu ta’âlâ is
compassionate and likes to forgive, they commit grave sins. They
act according to their personal reason and wishes. They want
others to do so, too. They blame true Muslims for not following
them. Moreover, they suppose they are on the right path and will
attain to salvation. They do not read the true books compiled from
books written by scholars of Ahl as-Sunna, and do not let their
children read them, either. Their hearts are evil and their words
are deceitful and false. Every day they masquerade in a different
appearence. They show a smiling face towards people, but slander
them behind their back. They prevent correct books which have
not been interpolated with bid’as from being read. [They say, “Do
not read these books. They are harmful.”] They intimidate those
who publish and read them. With deceitful advertisements they
praise the harmful books of the lâ-madhhabî. They insult the
teachings of Islam. What they write with their short sights are
presented to the younger generation under the name of knowledge
and science. As it is understood from what has been written so far,
all Islamic scholars and men of tasawwuf adhered to Islam, which
consequently brought them up to higher grades. It must be realised
that those who speak ill of them are ignorant in Islam. We should
not believe the false words of such ignorant people. They are
thieves of the faith. They are the lâ-madhhabî or zindîqs who block
the way to felicity.
A person who says that he does not believe in the torment in
the grave becomes a disbeliever, for his statement expresses not a
report or ta’wîl or Islam but his disrespect for Islam.
Those who belong to the group of Qadariyya, alias Mu’tazila,
become disbelievers because they say, “Allah does not create evils
or sins. Man creates his own deed.”
Those who belong to the group of Bâtiniyya become
disbelievers because they believe in the reincarnation of souls and
– 117 –

---

say that man comes back to the world after death, that Allah’s soul
has entered the Twelve Imâms, that it is unnecessary to obey Islam
until the Twelve Imâms are reincarnated and that Jabrâ’il (’alaihi
’s-salâm) had been commanded to bring the wahî to ’Alî (radiy-
Allâhu ’anh), but made a mistake and brought it to Muhammad
(’alaihi ’s-salâm).
Those Khârijîs who call all Muslims “disbelievers” without
depending on a ta’wîl or who accuse ’Alî, ’Uthmân, Talhâ, Zubair
and ’Â’isha (radiy-Allâhu ’anhum) of disbelief become
disbelievers.
Adherents of the Yazîdiyya group become disbelievers because
they say that a Persian prophet will come and abrogate the religion
of Muhammad (’alaihi ’s-salâm).
Those who are in the Najâriyya and Mu’tazila groups become
disbelievers because they do not believe in the attributes of Allâhu
ta’âlâ.
The Jabriyya become disbelievers because they say that man
cannot do anything, that Allah creates everything whether man
requests it or not and that for this reason those who commit sins
are excusable.
Some among the Mu’tazila group becomes disbelievers
because they say that Allah does not see anything and will not be
seen in Paradise.
The Qadariyya become disbelievers because they deny the
attribute of Knowledge [of Allâhu ta’âlâ] and say that Allah does
not know anything.
Of the Murji’a group, those who say that Allah will forgive
some disbelievers as He wills and torment eternally some believers
as He wills, those who say that their ’ibâdât will certainly be
accepted and sins will certainly be pardoned, and those who say
that all the fard are supererogatory ’ibâdât, and it is not sinful not
to do them become disbelievers.
Khârijîs fall into a group of bid’a because they say that deeds
and ’ibâdât are included in îmân, and a person who omits any fard
becomes a disbeliever or that a person who commits a grave sin
loses his îmân, and his îmân comes back when his sinning is over.
Masah on bare feet instead of masah on mests is not disbelief
but a bid’a. The salât performed behind an imâm who has done
masah on his bare feet [when performing an ablution] is not sahîh.
It is not permissible to make friends with holders of bid’a. It is
declared in a hadîth sherîf,