3-Endless Bliss Third Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

his state is up to Allah only. If He wishes, He will forgive all his
sins and put him into Paradise, or He will torment him with the
Hell-fire or through troubles as much as his sins. But at last he
will be saved and enter Paradise again. For, it is only
disbelievers who will not attain Allah’s mercy in the next world.
He who has the tiniest îmân will attain His compassion. If he
cannot attain His compassion because of his sins, he will at last
attain it through Allah’s blessing and favour. O Allah! After
giving us guidance to the right way and showing us the right
way, protect us so that our hearts will not deviate onto the
renegades’ side! Have mercy upon us! Pity us poor creatures!
Thou, alone, can protect us against the darkness of disbelief
and apostasy!
According to savants of the Ahl as-sunnat — may Allâhu
ta’âlâ reward them abundantly for their hard work — it is not a
piece of basic Islamic knowledge to talk about the caliphate.
That is, it is not something based upon îmân. However,
because Shiites were excessive in this respect [and a few
ignorant people who disguised themselves as hodjas named
themselves Alawîs and poisoned Muslims with their slanderous
words, books and magazines], savants of true Muslims have
included the information about the caliphate into the knowledge
of Kalâm, that is, into the information of îmân, and
communicated the truth of the matter. After the last Prophet
Muhammad Mustafâ, the Khalîfa of Muslims, that is, our
Prophet’s representative and the Muslims’ leader is Hadrat Abû
Bakr-i Siddîq. After him comes Hadrat ’Umar ul Fârûq. Next
comes Hadrat ’Uthmân-i Zinnûrein, and then Alî bin Abî Tâlib.
The order of superiority among these four is analogous to the
order of their caliphates. All the Sahâba and the Tâbi’ûn said
that of these the Shaikhayn [the first two] were higher than the
other two. This unanimity has been communicated by our
îmâms of dîn. For example, Imâm-i Shâfi’î’s saying is well
known. Abul-Hasan-i Ash’arî, one of the leaders of the Ahl assunnat,
said, “It is certain that the Shaikhayn are higher than all
the Ummat. He who disbelieves this fact is either ignorant or
stubborn.” Imâm-i Alî said, “He who holds me superior to Abû
Bakr and ’Umar is a slanderer. As slanderers are to be beaten, I
will beat him.” Hadrat Abdulqâdir-i Geilânî reported in his book
Gunya-tut-tâlibîn: Our Prophet said, “I asked of Allâhu ta’âlâ
that Alî become the Khalîfa after me. Angels said: ‘‘O
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