1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

type is known only by savants, such as kinds of facts to be
believed in concerning Allahu ta’âlâ and how to believe them.
Muslim savants command and prohibit things of this type. If a
savant has communicated them, those who are not savants
may communicate them, too, if they can. The munkars of the
second type comprise mostly aberrations pertaining to îmân
and creed. Every Muslim should cling to the Ahl-i sunnat creed,
and abstain from aberrant belief, that is, from deviation and
from bid’at in creed. One who is not learned in religious
knowledge should not dispute with performers of bid’at, but they
should keep away from them and should not greet them. He
should not visit them on religious feasts, at times of happiness,
should not perform namâz in their funerals, and nor should he
pity them. Since their creed is corrupt, he should deem it as an
act of worship not to like them. Rasûlulah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa
sallam’ declared in a hadith, “If a person looks at another
person harshly for Allah’s sake because there is bid’at or
aberration in his îmân or worship, Allahu ta’âlâ will fill his
heart with îmân and will protect him against fear.”
[It is written in the book Kanz-i mahfî, “It is prohibited to live
in places where ignorance and immorality, that is bid’at and
sinful activities have increased. Those who migrate in order to
maintain their dîn (religion) will be rewarded with Paradise. It is
wâjib to migrate from one quarter where there are no pious and
wise people and where bid’at and intrigues are on the increase,
to another quarter, or from such a city to another city. If Muslims
in all cities are attacked, they should migrate to another Islâmic
country. If there are no Islâmic countries, you should migrate to
a kâfîr country where human rights are respected and
worshipping is free and live there. Please see the thirty-eighth
chapter in the second part of (Turkish) Se’âdet-i ebediyye! This
is because those who live among them will be subjected to the
same catastrophe which is expected to befall them. The twentyfifth
âyat of Sûra Anfal declares: “And fear an affliction which
may not only smite those of you who do what is wrong.”]
Fudayl bin Iyâd, one of the great men of tasawwuf says,
“Allahu ta’âlâ does not accept the worships of those who love
the people who commit bid’at in their words and deeds, and He
takes their îmân away from their hearts. Even if he who dislikes
the performer of bid’at prays a little, I hope that Allahu ta’âlâ will
forgive him. If you meet a performer of bid’at on your way,
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