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commandments and prohibitions of Allâhu ta’âlâ. Here we end<br />

our translation from Ibni Âbidîn. [Chapter about the Murtad<br />

(renegade) in Majma’ul anhur].<br />

Every Muslim has to have his children memorize the Âmantu<br />

and teach them its meaning. A person will not be a Muslim if he<br />

does not know îmân and Islam when he reaches the age of<br />

discretion and puberty. He will not be a Muslim by only saying,<br />

“I am a Muslim.” When a man or a woman decides to get<br />

married, he or she should ask the person he or she is to marry<br />

to say îmân and Islam and have him or her say them, or the<br />

person who is to perform the nikâh should have the prospective<br />

wife and husband say the Âmantu and its meaning and Islam.<br />

Then should he perform their nikâh. A person who does not<br />

know îmân and Islam cannot be married through an Islamic<br />

nikâh; that is, the nikâh performed will not be sahîh. Parents<br />

who do not teach îmân and Islam to their children will have<br />

deprived their children of the fortune of being Muslims and<br />

caused them to become disbelievers. They will share the<br />

deserts with their children, suffering torment in Hell. The prayers<br />

of namâz, fast or hajj which they have performed will not save<br />

them from this torment. For a person who causes others to<br />

become disbelievers will become a disbeliever himself,<br />

especially if they are his own children. Please see the final part<br />

of the fifteenth chapter in the second part (of the Turkish<br />

original)! Every Muslim ought to read the (Turkish) book<br />

Herkese Lâzım Olan Îmân (Belief that is Necessary For<br />

Everyone), a Turkish translation of Mawlânâ Khâlid-i-<br />

Baghdâdî’s book I’tiqadnâma made by Hâcı Feyzullah Efendi,<br />

one of the professors of Söke Medrese. The book gives a<br />

concise and clear explanation of a hadîth-i-sherîf teaching îmân<br />

and Islam. (Please see the English book Belief and Islam).<br />

13 – DEATH—PREPARATION FOR DEATH<br />

The following information has been derived from the<br />

booklet, Safar-i-âkhirat, by Sayyid Abdulhakîm bin Mustafa<br />

Arwâsî ‘rahmatullâhi aleyh.’ The booklet has not been<br />

printed.<br />

Discreet men and women who have îmân and who have<br />

reached the age of puberty are termed mukallaf. It is sunna for<br />

those who are mukallaf to remember death very often. For,<br />

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