(TO THE TURKISH VERSION)
Allâhu ta’âlâ, having mercy on the whole of mankind, creates useful things and
sends them these things in the world. And in the Hereafter He will choose some
of those Believers who are to go to Hell, forgive them, and make them attain to
Paradise. He, alone, creates all living beings, keeps all beings in existence,
and protects them all against fear and horror. Trusting ourselves to the
honourable Name of such a Being, Allah, we begin writing this book.
If any person thanked and praised any other person in
any manner, for anything, at any place, at any time, all this thanks and
praisal would have been done to Allâhu
ta’âlâ by rights. For He, alone, is the
creator, the educator, the discipliner of all beings, and the actuator and
sender of all types of goodness whatsoever. He, alone, is the owner of power
and energy.
May all types of benedictions be pronounced over
MUHAMMAD ‘alaihis-salâm’, who is His Prophet and most
beloved born slave, the most virtuous and most valuable of theentire creation,
and over all of his Âl (household) and As-hâb (Companions), who were his
helpers and beloved ones ‘alaihimus-salawâtu wa-t-taslîmât.’!
Serving humanity has always been considered as the
most noble obligation, and most people claim to be exclusively doing this
service. There are very many people who cover the struggles they have been
carrying on for their own sensuous desires, pleasures and financial advantages
under the mask of this service. Serving humanity means causing human beings to
attain comfort and peace in this world and in the Hereafter. And the only way
to success in doing this is the guide to happiness, i.e. Islam, which has been conferred by
Allâhu ta’âlâ, most compassionate and most kind, the Creator and
educator of human beings. Then, serving humanity is possible by serving Islam;
serving Islam
means
serving humanity. Emenies of humanity have striven to annihilate Islam. Their
most effective aggression has been deceiving Muslims, thus destroying them from
within. They have provoked segregation among them, made them hostile against
one another, and led them into the talons of irreligious people.
Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wasallam’ made statements warning Muslims
against these catastrophes awaiting them. He said, for one, “My
Umma will be divided into seventy-three groups. Of these groups, only those who
follow me and my As-hâb shall escape Hell.” Fortunately, most of the seventy-two groups who are to go to Hell
are extinct today. Hundreds of millions of Muslims on the earth now are only in
the three remaining groups, i.e. Sunnîs, Shi’îs, and Wahhâbîs. If these three
groups of Muslims today do not take measures of conciliation and cooperation
with one another, if they prefer to abuse one another, the enemies of Islam
will gain grounds to defile Islam, to divide Muslims into yet other groups, and
to mislead young people out of Islam by using all sorts of lies and slanders.
As history shows, nations negligent in their faith have incurred Allah’s
scourge and fallen into cruel paws. We see today that most of them are still
being trodden under the enemy boots called Communists and are being brutally
employed for obtaining their food, like beasts, by an immoral, irreligious and
cruel minority. Rescuing humanity from this desperate situation depends merely
on serving Islam and rescuing Islam. Today, any person living in Europe or
America, where human rights are observed, will attain peace and comfort to the
extent that he or she follows Islam’s principles, whether consciously or by
chance. In order to convince our readers of this fact and to motivate them
towards seeing their own peril, we have considered it appropriate to warn them
against Communism by appending to our book a brief sampler of the lacerating
afflictions suffered by nations who fell into Communists’ traps.
This book explains how the Hurûfîs, who infiltrated the Shi’î
communities, attacked the Sunnîs, how the Iranian King Nâdir
Shâh organized a debate between the Sunnî
and the Shi’î scholars, which ended in the bilateral recognition that the Shi’î
(Shiah) way had been mixed with Hurûfî elements and that on the other hand the
Sunnîs were in the right way, and how it was decided, and the decision was
sanctioned by Nâdir Shâh that Iran would be Sunnî as before.
Upon reading this book of ours, our Iranian brothers
will agree with the decision taken by the Shiite scholars, become
Sunnî Muslims, and attain happiness. Gratitude be to Allâhu ta’âlâ, next to none of the recent Iranian learners has abandoned the
Sunnî way. We observe with gratitude, for instance, that the Persian book Kimyâ-i-Sa’âdat,
written by Imâm-i-Ghazâlî, a
Sunnî scholar, was reprinted in a most splendid form in Tehran in 1964, and the
younger generation in Iran are being informed about the statements made by
hundreds of Sunnî scholars, thus being impressed by their superior merits.
The very day Shiites free themselves from the Hurûfîs
deceit, realize the way shown by their own scholars, and cooperate with the
Sunnîs in spreading Islam over the world, the Wahhabîs will join them, Muslims
will be in unity, they will certainly resume their past grandeur and
superiority, they will once again shed a light on humanity and guide others to
civilization, and thus the whole world will attain happiness. Then all people
will know that serving Islam means serving humanity.
Mîlâdî
Hijrî Shamsî Hijrî Qamarî
2001 1422 1380