THE BELIEF of AHL
AS-SUNNA
The belief of Ahl as-sunna is what you need first,
Of the seventy-three, choose this way, the rest’ll lead to Hell.
Muslims are all sunnî: and their leader is Nu’mân.
Paradise is promised to their followers in îmân.
First make thine belief firm; then hold fast
to Sharî’at!
Obey Islam’s five commandments; do avoid its harâms!
If you commit a sin, make tawba, forthwith!
Whoever violates Sharî’at will one day regret it.
Don’t ever believe the atheist, else you’ll
end up in misery!
Mind sweet words, or they’ll entice you into catastrophe!
Hypocrites are on the increase; angels in guise, snakes in essence.
To entrap you, they’ll be your friends, so true in appearance.
Anyone may claim he is right, and others
wrong,
Islam is the criterion whereby to judge who is right!
Person who disobeys Islam is an aberrant one;
He who knows history well, will confirm this word.
Why will a person feeling unwell run to see a
doctor?
For no one wants to die, life is more sweet than anything else.
Who on earth could claim he wouldn’t like to live forever?
Death does not mean nonexistence: believe in life in the grave!
Paradise is everlasting, and so is Hell;
Qur’ân states so,
Beware of everlasting affliction, were it only a suspicion,
Yet some people deny this; a bat will shun light, and a crow
Enjoys rubbish heaps. It is the philomel that will solicit the rose.
No doubt, a lascivious profligate could not
like Islam,
These two’d never come together; good and bad are opposites!
Muslims are observant of the right, and kind to people;
Infidels, like serpents, enjoy hurting others.
Alas, Yâ Rabbî, alas! Such a difficult time we
live in:
Religious knowledge’s sunken into oblivion, very few perform namâz.
Masons insidiously gnaw at Islam from all directions;
Communists inflict torment; death, dungeon on Muslims.
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Today’s eccentricities the Messenger foretold;
Said: “My follower shall be so lonesome one day;
Every home shall be loud with music, adhân heard no more;
No ’âlim anywhere, the ignorant shall come to the fore!
Believers shall be miserable, disbelievers a Solomon each,
Every man a servant of his wife, woman commanding in the home;
Tall buildings shall be built, like a dog’s teeth:
Travelling shall be so fast, distance no longer a matter.
The intellect shall find many things, yet mankind sound asleep.
Birgivî wrote in his book,
as many hadîths foretold:
Signs of the world’s end shall appear, one after another;
The most famous of these signs; many a person shall be drunk.
People quite unaware of Islam shall be called ’Ulamâ.
The cruel shall be honoured, to ward off his harm.
Shamelessness on the increase, cuckolds wandering,
The basest of mankind in Moscow, issuing orders.
Everyone an ’âlim to himself, Muslim shall be called ‘rough.’
Few shall tell the truth, liars talking all the time.
A person shall be praised much, though having no îmân in his heart:
Men, like women, shall wear silk clothes shamelessly.
Wealth, adultery shall be arts, boys used for girls:
Women shall be tightly dressed, legs, bosoms in the open.
Fitna shall prevail all over, manslaughter for nothing.
Bid’at shall be widespread, no one to obey the sunnats.
People lacking moral sense, like Dajjâl, shall invent thousands of
lies,
Should a person tell the truth, they shall assail from all directions.
Men shall be unaware of Islam, and women shall be eccentric:
Emr-i-ma’rûf shall be forgotten, charlatans advertising sins.
Islam shall be criticised, harâms shall be committed everywhere,
Being a Muslim shall be in words only, melodies enjoyed in the name of Qur’ân.
The Believer shall be called reactionary, the renegade shall be backed:
All these shall certainly happen before the crack of doom.
Dajjâl, the grand prognostication, shall appear in Khorasan;
Then Îsâ shall descend from heaven, to a mosque in Damascus.
A hadîth says, “Of my daughter Fâtima’s descendants, a youth
Named Mehdi shall appear, and his father shall be named Abdullah.
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He shall strengthen Islam; îmân shall spread all over the world,
Then this hero and Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ shall cooperate
And kill Dajjâl, filling the whole world with justice and safety,
Later, Ye’jûj and Me’jûj shall appear from
behind the wall.
Millions shall be their number, and they shall bloodbath
everywhere.
Later Dâbb-at-ul-ard shall appear from below Safâ in Mekka:
A beast big as a mountain, it shall know good from bad.
The next portent is: the sun shall rise in the west.
Seeing this, disbelievers shall be Believers altogether,
Yet it shall do no good now coming round to the right course.
Another portent shall be a smoke appearing in Aden
Also, several coloured Abyssinians shall demolish Ka’ba.
The earth shall contain no copy of Qur’ân the great blessing.
Muslims shall all die, and the wrongdoers shall survive.
He shall do all sorts of atrocity, the monster called mankind:
Yet a fire from Hidjâz shall catch all unawares.
As they wander, eccentric, unbridled, doom shall suddenly crack,
And many other things shall happen, yet impossible to express.”
What a shame; some people have been made idols;
Ilâhî! If Thou dost not help, we shall all ruin utterly.
All we do in this fashion of apostasy is, sinning, wrongdoing.
People have deviated, everyone has to care for his self!
Depravity around me has covered me with oblivion all over;
Life has gone by fast, wake up, o my heart, wake up!
You’ ve always worked for this world, and lost your next world;
Pursuing only your physical needs, you’ ve ruined your heart.
You’ ve never followed mind or reason, the nafs your commander;
You’ ve spent a youth in oblivion, always chasing worldly ambitions.
You would never take advice, aberrant as if intoxicated;
So deeply absorbed in worldly pleasures; now it is time to moan.
Deceived by perfidious people, you’ ve fancied the world’d go on forever,
Efforts’ ve come to naught, your opulence, riches are no good!
He who follows Islamic superiors, I’ ve realized, will be happy;
What a shame, I’ ve let a whole life fly away, now I feel so doleful,
How I wish I’d obeyed Qur’ân, now I’d be an eternal sultân,
A man may own the whole world, yet can not stay here forever.
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Where is Darius or Alexander; where are the Romans and the Greek?
Where is Nimrod or Pharaoh; where is Qârun and where is Hâmân?
Where is Dzengiz and where is
Hitler? What did they leave
to mention?
Edison or Marconi or Pasteur shall not find kindness in the hereafter!
Do not think people useful to the world have reached perfection!
Theriac is sometimes made from a snake, and medicine from poison!
Do not judge by the appearance, îmân is man’s perfection!
Person with îmân will not be lazy; “Work,” commands the Subhân.
Lazy and regressive people are censured by Nebiyy-i-Zîshân,
He said in a hadîth, “He who works is beloved to Rabb!”
The soul, too, needs care; it is the beast that only feeds the body!
The health of this body is transient like running water!
Yes, the body is useful, for it is the one that carries the soul;
All the limbs deserve care; so a Muslim should act accordingly!
Did Nebiyyullah ever sit idly? Think well and be considerate!
All the Sahâba were experts in peace and lions in wartime.
I knew all these, yet I followed the nafs, now I am trembling,
I did not avoid sins; would this be the way of showing gratitude?
Hilmi, do not give up hope, Rahmân is the name of your
Rab!
Ilâhî, help us; enemies are all around us!
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Books, newspapers, films, radios have all become fiends;
If they told the truth, they would be a testimony each.
Why should sources of knowledge and science be so disappointing?
New physics and modern chemistry always testify to Thine Being!
Every mote says, “Allah is,” from atom to the heavens!
Yet no one sees them, the hearts no more have common sense.
Certainly, the world’ll be dungeon for those who deny Haqq!
What do you think is the source of these crises in Europe, America, and Asia?
For they do not see Haqq; they are all so befuddled;
Materially improved they are, yet quite unaware of humanity!
Could you expect peace and comfort from communism and freemasonry?
Absolutely will not attain happiness, person who turns away from Islam!
Radio of Moscow made aggressions against Islam daily this Ramazân.
Extremely sordid, so unmanly were the calumnies it heaped.
Even though disbelief survives, the cruel shall perish;
“I shall give respite to the cruel, yet this is no negligence,” said Yezdân.
Let Muslims not worry, Deyyân shall protect Qur’ân!
It is an historical repetition; Prophets came in times of unbelief;
Whenever the world was in darkness, rose a brilliant sun;
And now the sun of hidâyat shall rise in
Anatolia!
Habîbullah made possible
attaining this hidâyat!
What does ‘Habîb’ mean? Think and you’ll see how great he was.
Yâ Rabb! He is such a Prophet that his
slaves become sultans!
Once a heart’s been filled with his love, it’ll give light to lights.
Why isn’t that sun seen? The whole world has become blind;
Endless blessing, greatest honour is loving him, no doubt;
For his love I would sacrifice my whole property, my life!
One who has not tasted sugar will not know how sweet it tastes.
So sinful I am, and so shamed; yet my heart glitters with love;
For his love I shed so many tears; the soil of Erzincan is the witness!
This love ended wrongdoing; then I began moaning and groaning,
The last breath is not known; yet this is a portent of happiness!
The blessing is loving him, this I have now realized!
May he be closest to Habîb, he who presented this love to us!
1960
A.D. 1380 H. Erzincan
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