If a Muslim who holds the belief of Ahl as-Sunna and
obeys the Sharî’at loves the friends of Allâhu ta’âlâ, he
becomes one of them. May Allâhu ta’âlâ
bless us all with the lot of
loving them! May He make us attain the fayz and nûrs in their hearts owing to
this love! May He fill our hearts with these nûrs! A lover will always attain
his darling. He will become like his darling. From the position of lover he
will shift into being the loved one. The more he loves, the freer will he
become of the limitations of his human properties, and the safer will he become
from his harmful sensuous desires. He will attain love of Allâhu ta’âlâ. Love caused creation of the universe and uncovered the hidden
treasure.
[Islam means
to believe in the prophethood of Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ and to adapt yourself
to his Sharî’at. The commandments which Allâhu ta’âlâ declares
in Qur’ân al-kerîm are called Fard (or farz). His prohibitions are called Harâm. Collectively, they are called the Sharî’at.
To
obey the Sharî’at means to obey Qur’ân al-kerîm.
A person who believes that all the utterances of Muhammed ‘alihis-salâm’ are
true words dictated by Allâhu ta’âlâ is called a
Muslim. His utterances are
classified in three groups: 1-Utterances that are directly from Allâhu ta’âlâ both in wording and in meaning. These
utterances of his are called Qur’ân al-kerîm. 2- His
own utterances whose meanings were inspired into his blessed heart by Allâhu ta’âlâ. His utterances of this sort are called Hadîth-i-qudsî. 3-His utterances that are from him in wording and meaning. These
utterances of his are termed Hadîth-i-sherîf. Allâhu ta’âlâ revealed Qur’ân al-kerîm to His
beloved Messenger in a period of time that lasted for twenty-three years. After
his passing, (all the âyats of) Qur’ân al-kerîm
were compiled in one book, which was named Qur’ân al-kerîm or Mus-haf. Qur’ân al-kerîm is entirely in Arabic. Not everyone
can understand its meaning. Only Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ understood the divine
meaning from the divine word and explained it to his Sahâba. A Muslim who saw
the beautifil face of Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ is called a Sahâbî. Altogether, they are called the As-hâb-i-kirâm
(Or the Sahâba). The As-hâb-i-kirâm conveyed
all the teachings they had acquired from the Messenger of Allah to their
disciples, who in their turn explained them in their books, which number in the
thousands. These people are called Scholars of Ahl as-sunna. Imâms of the four Madh-habs
and Imâm-i-Ahmad Rabbânî and
his son Muhammad Ma’thûm are scholars of Ahl as-sunna. As it is
seen, a person who wishes to learn the correct meanings purported in Qur’ân al-kerîm should read the books of Fiqh and Îmân written
by scholars of Ahl as-sunna, and particularly the two sets of books that are
called Mektûbât and
which consist of three volumes each, written by two Islamic scholars in India,
namely Imâm-i-Rabbânî [d. 1624] and his son Muhammad Ma’thûm ‘rahimahumullah’.
Books of îmân contain the pieces of knowledge to be believed with the heart.
Books of fiqh contain the acts to be performed physically, i.e. the teachings
of the Sharî’at. The Qalb is not
the piece of flesh in the left half of the human chest, which is called Yürek,
(also called heart in English). The yürek
exists in animals, too. The qalb is a force embedded in the yürek. It cannot be
seen. It is like the existence of electricity in a light bulb. We call it the
Gönül. The gönül exists in human beings. Animals do not have it. All the limbs
of the body are under the command of the heart. All the pieces of knowledge
perceived by our sense organs assemble in the heart. Believing, loving, fearing
are all the heart’s business. It is the heart that believes or disbelieves. A
person with a pure heart will obey the Sharî’at. And a person with a wicked
heart will fight shy of the Sharî’at. The heart is the place of beautiful, good
moral qualities as well as the wicked ones. Allâhu
ta’âlâ sent down His religions and Prophets for the purpose of purifying
the heart. A person with a pure heart will be good to everybody. He will be
useful to his state and to his nation. He will live in comfort and peace in the
world, and he will attain eternal, unending happiness in the world to come.
Parents who read and learn books written by scholars of Ahl as-sunna and who
try to teach them to their children are a great blessing for their children.
Books, magazines and newspapers that are so are a great blessing for their
readers. No matter what a person’s title or position is, if he is ignorant and
stupid and has not read the books written by scholars of Ahl as-sunna, or if he
has not understood them though he may have read them, his words and writings,
which strike out of his addle head in the name of Islam, are worthless. They
are like pelting the unknown with stones. They are harmful to Islam and to the
entire humanity. After the scholars of Ahl as-sunna, some ignorant and
heretical people and some Jews who had mixed with them blended the ideas of
Greek phliosophers with the scientific teachings of their times and, adding
their personal miscreant and malicious thoughts, wrote misguiding religious
books. Thus,
seventy-two heretical groups of Bid’at appeared in the Islamic religion. Most of them disappeared in the course of time. Only the (group called) the Shiites survived. Today, books from three different sources are being spread over the world in the name of serving Islam: the Sunnite books, which are the true Islamic books; the Shiite books; the books published by the Wahhâbis, who are the votaries of a sect that the British founded in Saudi Arabia in the hijrî year 1150 [A.D. 1737] in order to undermine Islam from within].