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the benefit of all people. Trying to bring someone round to the<br />

right course can be done by teaching Islam to him. No matter<br />

through what way, we should strive so that those who will<br />

govern people will be Muslims. After their being Muslims, we<br />

should inform them of the belief of the Ahl as-sunnat wa ’ljamâ’at.<br />

We should struggle for the annihilation of corrupt ideas.<br />

A person who has the fortune of doing these becomes<br />

prophets’ inheritor. This chance has fallen to your lot for<br />

nothing. Appreciate it! I could never write too much on this<br />

subject. But this much will suffice for you. Only Allâhu ta’âlâ<br />

guides people to the right way.<br />

[It is written in the thirty-ninth (39) article of Majalla, “With<br />

the changing of time, rules that are based on customs can be<br />

changed.” However, rules that are declared through the Nass<br />

(âyats and hadîths) never change. Every custom cannot be<br />

based on as a canonical proof. Deriving a rule from a custom<br />

requires that the custom should not contradict the Nass, and it<br />

should have come from those Muslims called Salaf. [1] Even if<br />

those who commit the harâms increase in number and the<br />

harâms become customs, they are still not halâl. And, if<br />

symptoms of disbelief become customs and spread among<br />

Muslims, they will not become Islamic customs. Nor will they<br />

escape being symptoms of disbelief. In customs that are mubâh<br />

(permitted) and in scientific knowledge, it is necessary to follow<br />

the present time and to keep in step with those who make<br />

technical progress. The time will not be followed in Islamic<br />

knowledge or in worships. The knowledge of îmân, the<br />

knowledge of dîn, does not change in the process of time.<br />

Those who want to change it and to adapt it to the time will<br />

deviate from the Ahl as-sunnat; they will become disbelievers or<br />

heretics.]<br />

2 — THIRD VOLUME, 38th LETTER<br />

This letter, written to Mulla Ibrâhim, explains the hadîth<br />

which informs that this Ummat will part into seventy-three<br />

groups:<br />

It is declared in a hadîth that this Ummat will part into<br />

seventy-three groups, seventy-two of whom will go to Hell. This<br />

hadîth informs that the seventy-two groups will be tormented in<br />

[1] The early Muslims<br />

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