5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

Friday, or while learning, teaching or propagating religious
knowledge, those who fall in love and die in their efforts to
suppress their love and protect their chastity, those who die
during unjust imprisonment, those who die while serving as a
muadhdhin for Allah’s sake, while trading as commanded by the
Sharî’a or while working and earning halâl so that their
household will learn religious knowledge and worship, those
who say the prayer, “Allâhumma bârik lî fi-l-mawt wa fî-mâ
ba’d al-mawt,” twenty-five times every day, those who perform
the salât of Duhâ, those who fast three days each month, those
who do not neglect their salât of witr while travelling, those who
say the prayer, “Lâ ilâha illâ anta subhânaka innî kuntu minaz-zâlîmîn,”
forty times on their deathbed, those who read the
Sûrat-al Yasîn every night, those who go to bed with ablution
and then die, those who always make mudârâ, [which means to
dissimulate, to give away what is worldly in order to protect
one’s faith], those who bring groceries and sell them cheaply,
those who make ghusl in cold weather and become ill and die,
those who say the prayer “A’ûdhu billâh-is-samî’il’alîmi minash-shaytân-ir-rajîm,”
three times and the last part of the
sûrat-al Hashr every morning and every evening; all these
people become martyrs of the Hereafter. [(Bodies of) people
called Ahl-i-taqwâ, who have never eaten anything earned
through harâm never rot. Rotting (of a person’s body after
death) has nothing to do with martyrdom].
Those who die as a result of sinning do not become martyr.
If they die for some of the reasons causing martyrdom while
they are sinning, they become martyrs of the Hereafter, but this
does not give them impunity from the punishment for their sin.
For example, those who die in a house which collapses while
they are sinning in it become martyrs. Likewise, a person who
drinks too much wine and bursts does not become a martyr. But
a person who gets drunk with wine and then gets killed unjustly
(by others) becomes a martyr. For, he has died not because of
wine, but for some other reason. But he is liable to punishment
for his sin. It is written in the Fatâwâ of Ibn Nujaym, “If a person
who has drunk wine gets murdered while he is drunk, he
becomes a martyr. For, gravely sinful as it is to drink wine, it
does not prevent martyrdom.”
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