3-Endless Bliss Third Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

drinking, dressing, getting vehicles, building, dwelling and home
care, unless these do not prevent us from doing any worship or
cause us to commit any prohibited thing, these are not bid’at.
Our religion does not prohibit them.” There are three kinds of
bid’at:
1 — It is the worst bid’at to use —without any darûrat
(compulsion)— those things which the Sharî’at says to be the
signs of disbelief. On page 467 of al-Barîqa and 696 of Majmâ’
al-anhur, it is written that the ’ulamâ’ said, “It is permissible to
use them to deceive (khud’a) the disbelievers in dâr al-harb.”
2 — Those beliefs which disagree with what is
communicated by the savants of the Ahl as-sunnat are also evil
bid’ats.
3 — Those reforms made in the name of worship are bid’ats
in worship and are grave sins. Some ’ulamâ’ divided the bid’ats
in ’ibâdât or ’amal into the hasana and sayyia. Al-Imâm ar-
Rabbânî ‘rahmatullâhi ’aleyh’ did not say ‘bid’ats’ about those
bid’ats which scholars termed ‘hasana’. He called them ‘sunnati-hasana’.
He said ‘bid’ats’ about those which they termed
‘bid’at-i-sayyia’, and he condemned such bid’ats. Wahhabis, on
the other hand, say ‘sayyia’ about bid’ats termed ‘hasana’ and
approved, and they call those who practice such bid’ats
‘disbelievers’, ‘polytheists’.] [1]
5 — SECOND VOLUME, 89th LETTER
This letter, written to Sayyid Mîr Muhibbullah, informs
that in the world it is necessary to do what will be useful to
the Hereafter.
Praise and thanks be to Allâhu ta’âlâ! May Allahu ta’âlâ keep
you and us on the right way of your ancestors! As the alms of
His beloved Prophet, the Highest of Mankind, may He accept
our prayer! The states and the matters of the faqîrs being here
have been all right. We always offer our hamd and thanks to
Allâhu ta’âlâ, and we pronounce our infinite benedictions and
salâm over His Prophet. I pray to Allâhu ta’âlâ that you may
keep on being in safety, in good health, on the right way, and
make progress. My dear and merciful Sir! The time of earning
has been going past. Each moment past has been subtracting
[1] See Second Volume, 23rd letter in the second fascicle of Endless
Bliss.
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