3-Endless Bliss Third Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

emembered in good terms. This means to say that a person
who dislikes Hadrat Mu’âwiyya ‘radiyallâhu anh’ and curses him
cannot be in the Ahl as-sunnat wa ’l-jamâ’at, even if he has a
good opinion of all the Sahâba and loves them. Even the Shi’îs
do not like such a person. For, the Shi’îs’ liking a person
requires his being hostile against the three Khalîfas and
swearing at them. Such a person, therefore, is neither Sunnî
nor Shi’î. He is in a third madhhab.
[A good and correct understanding of the disagreements
among the Sahâba requires reading those books on belief
which explain all the particulars clearly and one by one. We
should not believe in recently written histories, incoherent,
unsound words, encyclopedias or magazines!
It is surprising that Cevdet Pasha says in his book Qisâs-i
anbiyâ (History of Prophets), “Upon seeing that his own
government was weakening and Mu’âwiyya’s power increasing,
Hadrat Alî became sorry and worried, and began to utter
maledictions against Mu’âwiyya and six others. And, hearing of
this, Mu’âwiyya also uttered maledictions against Hadrat Alî,
Ibni Abbâs, Hasan and Husayn.” While narrating the events of
Camel and Siffîn, he uses unbecoming terms about some
Sahâbîs. Also, Shamsaddîn Sâmî, in his book Qâmûs-ul-a’lâm,
shows disrespect toward Hadrat Mu’âwiyya and some other
Sahâbîs by uttering such sentences as a Muslim could not utter
about them. His showing such disrespect is not so surprising.
For, he shows disrespect toward Allâhu ta’âlâ, too, in his book
titled Toprak. He does not hesitate to demote Allâhu ta’âlâ to
the low grade of a slave, a substance. But Cevdet Pasha’s
credulity in believing in the Abbâsîd histories and the Râfidî
books astonishes us. For, his Qisâs-i anbiyâ is a dependable
and valuable book which narrates Rasûlullah’s life and Islamic
history in detail and explicitly and which is known to be true. It
ranks first among the books to be recommended to those who
would like to learn Islamic history. He also writes reasonably
and correctly about the combats among the Sahâba and their
reasons. For example, he says on the 438th page, “Abruptly,
the danger of apostasy grew great. Terror was everywhere. The
officials in Yemen and in other places began to return, bringing
bad news with them. The Muslims were all confused like a flock
of sheep caught by heavy rain on a dark night. Compared with
the number of renegades, the Muslims were very few. But
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