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change your way.” Again, he says, “I have heard Sufyân bin
Uyayna say that Allahu ta’âlâ becomes angry with the person
who attends the funeral of a performer of bid’at until he leaves
the funeral.” Our Prophet declared, “If a person makes up a
bid’at or commits a bid’at, may Allahu ta’âlâ and angels
and all people curse him! Neither the fard nor the
supererogatory worships he performs will be accepted.”
Abdulqâdir-i Geylânî’s words are concluded here.
If the way of the great sufis were to not interfere with
anybody, one of them would not have said, “When the Niqâr,
that is, performing Amr-i ma’rûf and Nahy-i munkar, among the
sufis stops, they are no longer of any use.” Shaikh-ul-Islâm-i
Hirawî Abdullah Ansârî said that Amr-i ma’rûf and Nahy-i
munkar were called Niqâr among the sufis. [It is written in
Nafahât, while telling about the life of Abû Saîd-i Kharrâz, that
the one who said, “when the niqâr stops,” was Abul-Hasan Alî
bin Muhammad Muzayyan.] Those who slander the great sufis
by saying that they did not interfere with anybody, do they not
think why the Qur’ân and hadiths are full of descriptions
describing the rewards and torments in the next world? Will not
the person who believes in the vehement torments that are said
to be prepared for the sinners want to save his Muslim brother
from this danger? If there is a well or a fire in front of a blind
man, or if a person is about to fall into another worldly danger,
they will certainly let him know of it and show him the way to
safety. They will not leave him alone. Then, why should not they
let him know of the torment in the next world, which is more
dismal and more impetuous and endless, and show him the
way to salvation? It means that he who does not let others
know or show them their mistakes does not admit or believe in
the torment in the next world, and does not have îmân in the
day of the Last Judgement.
If Allahu ta’âlâ did not want to interfere with anybody, He
would not have sent prophets, He would not have declared the
Sharî’ats, He would not have invited people to the Islâmic
religion, and He would not have let us know that the other
religions were wrong and aberrant, nor would He have
annihilated those who disbelieved the earlier prophets by
tormenting them. He could have left everybody free and alone;
He could have not commanded anybody to do anything, nor
would He have tormented those who disbelieved Him. Why did
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