3-Endless Bliss Third Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

types of deeds, the savants looked for another name, at last
calling them kasb (acquiring). This means to say that though
man’s deeds are done by him optionally, his option is not within
his power. Then, he can do nothing.
[The Commandments of Allâhu ta’âlâ are classified into two
groups: awâmir-i taklîfiyya, awâmir-i takwîniyya. The first
group includes His commandments and prohibitions enjoined
on genies and human beings. Actions contained in the first
group are willed and created by Him after they have been
wanted and opted by men. The second ones are created
immediately with their causes. All natural events are examples
of this. The ripening of a fruit over a long process of time is a
collection of events (each of) which He creates instantly.]
Question: Since man can do nothing, why should he be
rewarded or tormented; and why were dîns and Sharî’ats sent
down?
Answer: This question is called tawhîd in the Sharî’at and
the Sharî’at in tawhîd. Many people were drowned here.
Escaping its danger has fallen to the lot of only those who can
float on this ocean or who can at least swim in it. The majority of
people escaping the danger has been due to their not going into
the ocean. Because ignorant people do not know how to swim,
they should be pitied and protected from being drowned by not
being left near the shore. In addition, they do not think of
learning how to swim. Most of them drown and annihilate
themselves by saying, “We can do nothing. Allâhu ta’âlâ makes
everything. A person predestinated as a shaqî, disbeliever,
cannot change it no matter how hard he may try. And a person
who has been predestinated as a sa’îd, for Paradise, does not
need to work.” Such words are always the results of ignorance,
of wrong reasoning. Though it is not proper to explain this
subject by writing in books, we will explain it a little, since our
words have taken this course.
In answer to the question, “What are thawâb and torment
for?” we say: Torment is not someone’s hurting you in revenge
for your having committed an evil deed. Nor is thawâb (reward)
his rewarding you because he likes your deed. That day there
will be nobody besides Allâhu ta’âlâ to revenge. As we call it
illness when there is a change in man’s body because there is
something wrong with his bile or because other harmful
substances in his body have increased, and as we call it health
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