5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

article which has deeply hurt Muslims, whose hearts are filled with
the love of Rasûlullah and of the Qubbat-ul-hadrâ. Muslims, no
doubt, love the Arabs because they have been serving the
Haramein-i-sherîfein and the Qubbat-ul-hadrâ. If the Arabs
desecrate these sacrosanct places, Muslims’ hearts will certainly no
longer have any love for them. We call upon the Muslims all over
the world to inform the government of Saudi Arabia with the
vehemence of the sorrow caused by this detestable trickery and to
join the struggle for the neutralization of this atrocious stratagem!
The Arabic origin of the above-given summon has been
appended to the end of the 1978 edition of the book Al-madârij-ussaniyya.
It is written at the end of the chapter about hajj in the book Ibn
Âbidîn: “A poor person who goes on hajj does supererogatory
worship until he arrives in Mekka. Hence he is given thawâb for
supererogatory worship. When he arrives in Mekka it becomes fard
for him to make the hajj. But a rich person begins to earn the
thawâb of the fard the moment he leaves his country for hajj. If a
poor person leaves his country (or hometown) after putting on the
ihrâm, he wil earn the thawâb of fard on the way too, thus attaining
the same thawâb as the rich one does. A person whose parents do
not need him can go on the hajj which is fard without their
permission. [But he cannot go on the supererogatory hajj without
their permission.] Doing things useful for Islam, such as building
mosques, schools for teaching the Qur’ân, and the like, causes
more thawâb than the supererogatory hajj. If the money spent on
the supererogatory hajj is portioned out to Muslims in need, making
supererogatory hajj or ’umra will cause more thawâb than giving
alms in your own country. For, in this case, you will be worshipping
both through property and through the body. It is stated in the
twenty-sixth letter in Maqâmât-i-mazhariyya that in this hajj it is
necessary not to omit a fard or wâjib without an excuse and not to
commit a harâm or makrûh. Otherwise making the supererogatory
hajj will produce sins rather than thawâb. Please see the final part
of the twenty-third chapter in the fourth fascicle, the first chapter in
this fascicle, and the letters 29 and 123 and 124 in the (Turkish
book) Müjdeci Mektûblar. Serving Islam by joining the army or
through publication or propagation causes more thawâb than the
supererogatory hajj. For a person who does not have such
services, helping the poor, the needy, the pious, the sayyids with
money causes more thawâb than making the supererogatory hajj or
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