8-Belief and Islam - Hakikat Kitabevi

If a person who carries out his ’ibâdât according to one of
the four madhhabs commits sins, or if he makes any mistakes
in his ’ibâdât, Allâhu ta’âlâ will forgive him and will never put him
into Hell, if He wishes. He will torture him as much as his sins, if
He wishes, but later he will be released from torture. Those who
do not believe even one of the clear facts that must be believed
in Islam, that is, that are heard even by ignoramuses, are called
kâfirs (disbelievers) and will be subjected to eternal torture in
Hell. There are two types of kâfirs: The kâfir with a holy book,
and the kâfir without a holy book. If a Muslim abandons his
religion, he is called a “murtadd” (renegade, apostate). Ibn
’Âbidîn (rahimahullâhu ta’âlâ) wrote in the subject on ‘people
not to be married due to polytheism’: “Renegades, mulhids,
zindîqs, fireworshippers, those members of one of the seventytwo
groups who are as excessive as to become disbelievers,
people called [Brahmins, Buddhists,] Bâtinîs, Ibâhatîs and
Durzîs (Druzes), idolaters, the ancient Greek philosophers and
munâfiqs are all disbelievers without holy books.” Communists
and the freemasons also are disbelievers without holy books.
Christians and Jews, who believe in revealed books which were
later interpolated, are disbelievers with books.
If a disbeliever, with a holy book or without one, embraces
Islam, he will escape going to Hell. He will become a sinless,
innocent Muslim. But he has to become a Sunnî Muslim, that is,
to read and learn the book of one of the ’ulamâ’ of Ahl as-
Sunna and adapt his îmân, acts and words to what he thus
learns. In the world it is understood from a person’s clear words
and actions said and done without darûra (strong necessity or
compulsion) if he is a Muslim or not. It becomes definite at a
person’s last breath if he has gone to the next world with îmân.
If a Muslim with grave sins repents for them, he or she will
surely be forgiven and become a sinless, pure Muslim. It is
explained in detail in ’ilm al-hâl books, for example, the book
Endless Bliss, what repentance is and how it will be done.]
“Zabâyih”) and Mawlânâ Hamd-Allâh ad-Dâjwî’s Al-Basâ’ir li-munkîrit-tawassuli
bi ahl al-maqâbir. Both books are in Arabic. The latter
was written and printed in India and was reproduced in Istanbul in 1395
(1975).
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