5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

harb, the child remains a Muslim. If all three of them go (to the
Dâr-ul-harb), the child will become a renegade like them. If the
child becomes insane after reaching the age of puberty and if
its parents become renegades and then all three of them go to
the Dâr-ul-harb, the child will not be a renegade. Dâr-ul-harb is
a place where it is forbidden to read about, teach or practice the
commandments of Allâhu ta’âlâ.
Whether male or female, a renegade is never proper for
anyone to chose as a marriage partner. That it is not sahîh to
marry a Râfizî is written in the fatwâs called Bahja and
Fayziyya as well as in the book entitled Ar-rawd-ur-râid fî
adam-i-sihhat-i-nikâh-i-ahl-is-sunnat-i-li-r-rawâfid.
If a disbeliever with more than four wives or who is married
to two wives who are sisters or mother-and-daughter to each
other becomes a Believer, his latest nikâh becomes null and
void.
If a married girl who is accepted as a Muslim because her
parents are Muslims does not know Islam and cannot state the
principles of Islam when she becomes pubescent, she becomes
a renegade and becomes divorced automatically. Because she
does not have a certain religion, she becomes a disbeliever
without a certain Heavenly Book. If a Christian girl married to a
Muslim becomes pubescent as she is still married and does not
know Islam, she becomes a disbeliever without any Heavenly
Book and her nikâh becomes void. If a girl said to be a Muslim
does not know Islam when she reaches the age of puberty, she
becomes a disbeliever without a Holy Book. When such girls
reach the age of puberty they must be taught îmân and Islam
and made to repeat what they learn. In other words, someone
must tell her the attributes of Allâhu ta’âlâ and the six tenets of
îmân [called Âmantu], and then ask her if she believes them. If
her answer is affirmative she is a Muslim. If she says, “I will find
out and tell you. I can’t tell you now,” then she is a disbeliever. If
she says, “I understand. But I won’t say,” then, again, she is a
Muslim.
When a child with Muslim parents reaches the age of
discretion and puberty, he or she will not become a Muslim only
by saying, “Lâ ilâha il-l-Allah Muhammadun Rasûlullah.” He
or she will also have to know and state îmân and Islam. To
know îmân means to know the six tenets of belief and to say
them when one is asked. To know Islam means to accept all the
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